lighting question

[fish keeper 7]

i have a 46g bow
i have a 4 light 39w t5 HO light fixture w. 2 acnitics and 2 i think 10ks?
so over all its 126w
any corals i should DEFINITELY stay away from?
reef noob. ill be posting pics of my tank soon, i just need to get rid of my LR rubble and get some more bigger pieces. made a noob mistake and ordered 50 lbs of rubble and its not very good eye candy , real hard to set up until i got my 50 lbs of bigger pieces. but i still want more! lol

thanks
-Alan

 

[James983]

Alan, you can keep softies and LPS like Torch or Frogspawn. Some hardy SPS high in tank. You may find that the more colorful SPS will brown under that light. I would stay away from Acros.

 

[darock73]

New Lights

Hi, I just purchased a light 2-250/W MH 2-65/W
PC atinics for my 58Gal reef tank.
Every thing is good except for toad stool, kenya tree,and
Frog spawn. They closed up
And toad stool has wilted. Can someone help
Out. The old light was 150 mh & 2-24w pc atinics

 

[James983]

Hi, I just purchased a light 2-250/W MH 2-65/W
PC atinics for my 58Gal reef tank.
Every thing is good except for toad stool, kenya tree,and
Frog spawn. They closed up
And toad stool has wilted. Can someone help
Out. The old light was 150 mh & 2-24w pc atinics

I think your baking them with that light. How deep is your tank?

 

[darock73]

21" deep my mushroon is on the bottom and the frogspawn was .up high buy moved
it too the bottom

 

[darock73]

21" deep, but the toadstool was on the bottom, and i moved the frogspawn to the bottom it started to open up

 

[junglebase]

I think your baking them with that light. How deep is your tank?

+1... overkill!

 

[motortrendz]

heu if u wanna sell the rubble im interested.. pm me..

 

[darock73]

so what do you advise me too do, besides buy a new light.

raise lights, put up screening & acclimate lights slower?

I don"t want to lose anything else.

thanks

 

[E.intheC]

darock, you can do both of those things. Raise the light up and/or put window screening (a number of layers).. gradually remove one layer at a time until the corals are acclimated. You can also shorten the photoperiod.

This also gives you an opportunity to buy higher Kelvin bulbs (like 20,000K if you want)

 

[darock73]

Thanks E for the response