Time to buy!!!!!
For the longest time, I have been running NO tubes and keeping mainly a few shrooms, and one poor leather that was rescued and is maintaining fairly well, although not really growing much. Well, I have saved and saved and it's time to give my 120 gallon 60"w X 24"d X 30"h tank and it's residents the light they deserve and me the ability to start making a reef tank.
I would like to add just about anything coral-wise, but realize my limitations as a relative newbie and so don't feel terribly predisposed to running out and getting the most difficult SPS I can find or, for that matter, clams. Mostly, I would like the ability to select a variety of run of the mill corals, nothing dramatic until I can keep them and grow them succesfully.
So, with that row out of the way, I'm looking at dual MH 250 watts probably, as I don't want a huge bill increase on power, with or without VHO actinic supplementation. Electronic ballasts are a must as they seem to pull lower amps on startup, something I don't want to start doing is rewiring my fish room, add to that they run cooler. ALso, I may be building a proper hood, but pendants are not ruled out, nor complete hood systems. So the game is fairly open.
Budget? Let's say ~ 600 - 800
Reefs.org, what do you recommend?
For the longest time, I have been running NO tubes and keeping mainly a few shrooms, and one poor leather that was rescued and is maintaining fairly well, although not really growing much. Well, I have saved and saved and it's time to give my 120 gallon 60"w X 24"d X 30"h tank and it's residents the light they deserve and me the ability to start making a reef tank.
I would like to add just about anything coral-wise, but realize my limitations as a relative newbie and so don't feel terribly predisposed to running out and getting the most difficult SPS I can find or, for that matter, clams. Mostly, I would like the ability to select a variety of run of the mill corals, nothing dramatic until I can keep them and grow them succesfully.
So, with that row out of the way, I'm looking at dual MH 250 watts probably, as I don't want a huge bill increase on power, with or without VHO actinic supplementation. Electronic ballasts are a must as they seem to pull lower amps on startup, something I don't want to start doing is rewiring my fish room, add to that they run cooler. ALso, I may be building a proper hood, but pendants are not ruled out, nor complete hood systems. So the game is fairly open.
Budget? Let's say ~ 600 - 800
Reefs.org, what do you recommend?
