surferjoe86
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
I recently got myself a fluval 240 roma. I've set it up as a marine tank everything is running great. Used my old aquarium water everything happy.
My question is about lights, The tank came with 2, 48" 18000k 40w T8's (aqua-glo and marine-glo)
I've since added 2 more of the above tubes making 4, 48" 40w T8 and 2 40w 48" T8 anticis. Because I have the starters kicking about so thought I'd make use of them.
So to put it simply I have 160watt of 18000k lighting and 80watt of antinic.
I know that MH and T5's are better for corals but...
My question is, can I only keep soft corals? Or would SPS be okay under this amount of light?
I had a hilide on my last aquarium but was a homemade setup and looked horrific! But on the upside I didn't have to think about what i could keep. Only been keeping marines a year and not had much money until now so never got many corals. I've got 2 types of xenia, mushroom, green zoo poylp and a kenya tree at the mo. They all seem very happy but im no expert!
Any advice would be great
Cheers Joe
My question is about lights, The tank came with 2, 48" 18000k 40w T8's (aqua-glo and marine-glo)
I've since added 2 more of the above tubes making 4, 48" 40w T8 and 2 40w 48" T8 anticis. Because I have the starters kicking about so thought I'd make use of them.
So to put it simply I have 160watt of 18000k lighting and 80watt of antinic.
I know that MH and T5's are better for corals but...
My question is, can I only keep soft corals? Or would SPS be okay under this amount of light?
I had a hilide on my last aquarium but was a homemade setup and looked horrific! But on the upside I didn't have to think about what i could keep. Only been keeping marines a year and not had much money until now so never got many corals. I've got 2 types of xenia, mushroom, green zoo poylp and a kenya tree at the mo. They all seem very happy but im no expert!
Any advice would be great
Cheers Joe
