Spoon
Aquarium Advice Regular
I saw in one of your posts you mentioned that too much light could be bad for coraline. I am about to make some adjustments to a couple of tanks (including light and filtration) and I was just wondering how much is too much.
Several of us maintain a 20 gallon reef tank at work and we have 30W of flourescent light on the tank. We dose regularly with Calcium and Carbonate and the coraline is OK. We had to move the tank recently (new office building) and we have room to put up another tank (45 Gal)
I think we are going to make the 45 a FO (for now) and upgrade the lights on the 20G. What would be a good amount of light for a 20 gal with polyps and coraline? I saw some reasonably priced 65W PC lights on Ebay. Would 65 be a good wattage?
Also for future upgrades, I was looking at 192 W lights for the 45G tank. Could we get away with 96W? The tank is about 2' tall.
Thanks for your help.
Several of us maintain a 20 gallon reef tank at work and we have 30W of flourescent light on the tank. We dose regularly with Calcium and Carbonate and the coraline is OK. We had to move the tank recently (new office building) and we have room to put up another tank (45 Gal)
I think we are going to make the 45 a FO (for now) and upgrade the lights on the 20G. What would be a good amount of light for a 20 gal with polyps and coraline? I saw some reasonably priced 65W PC lights on Ebay. Would 65 be a good wattage?
Also for future upgrades, I was looking at 192 W lights for the 45G tank. Could we get away with 96W? The tank is about 2' tall.
Thanks for your help.