What type of lighting do you use?

[JLAURENCE32]

Boy, that's alot more T5 only setups than I thought. I have six IC overdriven T5's with Reefgeek reflectors. Three Blue+, two Aquablue and one GE6500k. Five foot bulbs on a six foot long 125 gallon.

 

[Mariner]

Well, on my 135g I run a combo of a 400w MH 20k XM and a 175w 14K Blueline, plus a single T5 strip.
But on my 75g, I just run 6 normal output fluorescent tubes in shop light fixtures. This is a very effective and inexpensive set up for a medium light reef. Don't know why more people don't try it.
Oh, and here's a pic for the non-believers :bigsmile:

Marinr

 

[SDguy]

250W DE 14K Phoenix in PFO pendants on Icecpas ballasts.

That's it.

 

[NVTE]

8x54W TEK T5

 

[Salt Water Crazy]

3 250 DE 14k phoenix, But I really miss my 20k 400w xm's, I had way better color, and growth with them.

 

[Zegg]

115g long (6ft) Use halides only. 3x250w phenix 14k plan on adding 4x39w T-5HO for actinics.

 

[Murfman]

3 X 400W MH with Reeflux 12K bulbs for 4 1/2 hours a day. This is on an 8' tank.

 

[Paul_N]

2 X 250W MH DE Phoenix 14k

2 X 54W T5 actinics with SLR

 

[DiscoReefRover]

my main Display is 4ft 150gal I have 4 4ft 110w VHO on icecap two 400w radiums on m135 s and two 4 watt blue LEDS for moon lights .....440w of Super actnic Rs I can see my teeth glow in the other room ...lol

 

[dparson]

I use (20) 48" T-8s overdriven to 55w each bulb. 6500k and actinic staggered throughout. It is a total of 1100w over a 250G 8' tank

 

[dantimdad]

Using a blueline 10k 250 now will be using a 400W 12K reeflux on the 118 when I set it up.

dantimdad

 

[kass03]

Hard to answer cuz I have 3 tanks with 3 diff. kinds of lighting.
20k MH on my nano
T5's on my 55 gal.
Pc's on my 150.

The T5's bring out the best colors in my corals.

kass

 

[GPhiAce]

250w MH Aquaconnects with 2x24w T5 Fiji purple and Geisman actinic+

 

[Steve Ruddy]

180 gallon 72x24x24

3 x 250W 20K Radium mogul
1 x UV Super Actinic VHO
1 x UV Actinic White VHO

FWIW these VHO bulbs give me much more intensity on this size tank even though they are less efficient per watt than T5. Also I only have to replace 2 bulbs verses four that it would take to cover the same area with T5.

 

[Jeremym420]

250 watt de 14k phoenix and giesemann super actinic + bulbs.

 

[lvsuckerfish]

I am useing 2 250s 1 20k xm mag ballast and one 20k radium elec ballast mogul based bulbs then 2 48" super antic t'5s....

why the different halides I am testing to see which one I like better I have the other ballast already just want to know which way I want to go. so far both are the same IMO. just a little different in color x seems a little more white.

 

[Robthorn]

Whos got the best pictures to back up there lighting? My tank sucks no photo's here. Halide only by the way but the sucks part comes from a faulty refractometer. Getting better weekly.

 

[Dobbs]

AquaIllumination 48" LED's here

 

[LILBUDDHA]

Hold tank is 37 gallon Oceanic cube .
250 watt Metal Halide CV Dimmable ballast , 20 K Reeflux in a LumenBright wide mini .

70+ cube 30x30x19.5
New build in progress will add 2 2 4 t-5's . ATI blue plus and Fiji Purple

 

[HAudioSolutions]

I'm using MH plus t5's (in same fixture) with two VHO Super actinics I raided from my old 75 setup (love the color)