48x96x16 Frag Tank Lighting recommendations

[DangerDave]

We're building a 4x8 frag tank for my son. I've always used kessils and t5 as supplemental for my display and frag tanks. If you were building this tank for a mixed reef grow out tank, how would you light it and why?

Thanks!

Dave

 

[X-37B]

Their are many types of lights to use today and you will get many different suggestions as you well know.

My 48x24x16 growout runs 4 xr15 gen5 blues with good results.

Also remember this my 16" tall growout system has a 1.5" rack system and the distance from the rack to the surface is only 12.5".
I get 220 par on the top of the rack
At 12.5" deep.
I also run a quanta pro blue bar for an extra 100 par.

Thats just from a radion perspective and gives just one example.

Are you mounting on the tank, from above as their are many options?

If I was setting that tank up as a growout I would look at Reefbreeders and some blue bars mounted in a hybrid rack.
This is my 80 so you have some reference.

 

[DangerDave]

I'll probably hang some type of track to put them on. Thanks for the response! I'm just looking for ideas while we start this project. I expect I'll probably hand 4 ap9x over top of the tank if I don't see anything in the responses that make me change my mind.