Mushrooms are the easyest as far as lighting goes. Some,
like the blue ones can live in very low light, though
their color will not be as nice.

Yea the dishonesty of pet stores is realy bad. It's been
interesting seeing it from the other side of the fence, as
I own a pet store. What amazes me is how much customers
fall for the other store's dishonesty. What realy suprizes
me is how often customers will go back and be cheated
again and again. But yea it's bad, there is so much
dishonesty in so many pet stores. You would think that
customers would seek out the honest stores, and some do,
but they are luered back to the ones that cheat them, and
because the dishonest stores have the extra leverage,
making more $ in sales (by selling at lower prices, but
selling stuff the the customer doesn't need), it gives
them more leverage over the stores that are honest, and
those stores have a harder time competing. So the
dishonest businesses choke out the honest bussiness.

So you can keep in what you have, some of the mushrooms,
but don't try the stonys.

Wayne Sallee


volux wrote:
I knew it !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I spent a good 350 $ on lights - went by what the lfs recommend; I told them
what I wanted - reef tank, and eventually into hard corals, & I wasn't
interested in fish

what the sold me they claimed "was more then plenty !!! "
UGH - the more I was reading, the more I felt I was mislead by the LFS (
who specializes in Salt water reefs)

so that would explain why some of my mushrooms lost their intensity, it
wasn't till then I started to doubt what they had told me. what a piser!
expensive lesson learned




"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message
k.net...

Looks like you have 4 20w lights. That's 80 wats, 2.66
wats per gallon. That's quite low. You want 3 to 5 wats of
light per gallon. 3 being on the low side, and 5 being
where you want to be. I like going a little higher like
6.6 wats of light per gallon.

The more light you have the more vigor your corals will
have, and the better chance they have for healing up if
they get dammaged, and better chance of fighing off infection.

Wayne Sallee



volux wrote:

Currently i have a 33 Gal tanks.

My question is : i have 2 aurora 50/50 (20w ea) & 2 coral sun actinic

420

610 mm - stats from the package

I took the advice of LFS on the lighting, My goal is a reef tank.

Will this be anough?