lighting for a 125 gallon reef tank

[oneslowsaleen]

Hi, I am currently running two 36" fixtures with 4 39watt t-5 bulbs , one of the ballast crapped out on me yesterday. and then while i was playing around with it the other one crapped out go figure , so now I am down to one fixture. I have only a few corals in my tank as of rite now but I plan on adding a lot more. I am new to this hobby, but now I figured is the time to upgrade from these old hand me down fixtures. I been looking around but I am clueless as what I should buy. I really don't wanna spend more than 600, 700 at the max. I was looking at metal halide t-5 combo fixtures. Any help and info would be greatly appreciated I am also open to buying used from someone as long as they are in great shape and in perfect working order,if i have to replace bulbs that is fine as long as the price is what it should be.. Thank you.

 

[Jzhou]

Depends on what types of corals you have. Try looking at ballastwise.com. They sell Ballast, even high output ballast for t5s. They don't have icecap anymore which is very sad.

 

[armani4o3]

I might have a 6 foot current usa 250 watt mh with 8 t5 and 12 moonlights f/s soon