Is this lighting enuf for my reef tank

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Hello everyone,
My lighting are
60w - 2 nos - led strips with blue and white
30w - 3 nos - actinic white T8
30w - 3 nos - actinic blue T8
With 12 hour timer
Is this sufficient for my 6 x 2 x 2 feet tank ?

Please suggest
 
Hello everyone,
My lighting are
60w - 2 nos - led strips with blue and white
30w - 3 nos - actinic white T8
30w - 3 nos - actinic blue T8
With 12 hour timer
Is this sufficient for my 6 x 2 x 2 feet tank ?

Please suggest
My tank
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Without knowing your livestock plans, it is hard to say definitively. Also, I'm not familiar with T8 bulb output versus T5s. And, I'm not clear on how you have your bulbs set up as a 30 watt T8 is 36" long (I believe), so are you running 3 bulbs on half the tank and 3 bulbs on the other half?

If I had to take an educated guess, though, for fish only tank with live rock, yes, your lighting is definitely fine. Most likely you are fine for keeping softies and some LPS corals. SPS corals, no.
 

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