Wednesday, December 31, 2008

New Lighting


I just got my order from Marine and Reef. I ordered a Current Sunpod with 2 x 150w HQI Metal Halide. It also contained 9 blue and 9 white moonlights. I can control which color (or both) I use. The main reason I wanted to upgrade is that ironically the corals that do the best in my tank are the harder to keep SPS, so I decided I wanted to keep more of it. I also really wanted to keep a clam. I knew that I would need better lighting to keep them so I looked around and decided that this was the best fixture that I could afford (I would have rather gotten the 250w version with PC & supplement, but 600-700$ light was not in the budget). It was 410$ and came with free shipping and a timer. I was very happy with it. It was a bit bulkier and heavier than my older fixture, but this was to be expected. The 14K MH have a great balance of white and blue. My Anemone has bubbled up somewhat in response to this change in lighting. I really love the blue moonlights as they cause my corals to look un real as some of them glow under this light. I just wish that they put all blue moonlights rather than 1/2 so the blue light would reach all my corals and not just a few. All in all I am very happy with this 5 star fixture :) I created a page on google doc. describing in detail the process. Click this link http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg83zfhp_52gh38zjdb

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