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Ok thanks carey ill try it cnt w8 for christmas "santa"(my parents) are giving me the money to convert to a sw,just like last year they gave me the money to start the fw but its not as cool as sw at all so im gunna give it a try, ive been doin research for 10 months now and found this site about 8 months ago and u guys have been gr8!
Glad youre getting to do what you want! Xmas is only a few months away too. Not like it's march or anything. lol Hoep you will make a build thread so we can see what you do.
That's a standard fluorescent bulb on a pretty deep tank. (I have a 37 also.) I'm not sure abou thte mushrooms or GSP unless you can get them pretty much all the way to the top. The other problem with a 37 is that you're pretty much stuck with 24" bulbs in a 30" wide tank, so there's 3" on either side of the tank that isn't getting much light.
Coralife makes a two bulb standard wattage T5 fixture which would be a huge step up for not very much money. I picked one up in Virginia Beach for about $30 to replace a single bulb HO strip I took off my 20L freshwater to supplement the 150 HQI on my 37. (The metal halides alone were too white, plus I wanted to supplement on the deep tank.)