Decent 36" light fixture

What fixture would you recomend for a 3 foot long tank ?
It is 58 gallon oceanic without center frame brace.
It is "reef-ready" tank with center back wall overflow.

Currently running with home-made 2 x 96W power compacts lamp.
Was thinking to upgrade to some 3 x 96W pc or maybe some T5 ?
Like to run 2 actinics and 1 white to have more blue in tank.

Anything decent currently on the market worth checking out ?

I am a cheapskaaate when it comes to paying what they want for
lights. I prefer to make my own or at least the hood and buy a retro
kit. If yur good at DIY and can make a suitable hood, adding in retro
fit parts and yur old lights would be cheapest, and would fill that 3
x 96 watt criteria you mentioned, and probably still have room for a
few tubes of T5...

The goldfish and smallkoi tank at the local Deathco store here has a
light over it that I would love to have. Its certainly overkill for a
koi and goldfish tank. It has an aluminum extrusion housing, and is
suspended on acrylic tubes from an overhead framework of polished
aluminum.....tank itself is perhaps 36 x 36 x 30 inches and its all
acrylic...The light has 8 T5 tubes as well as 2 175 MH lights in it, 4
fans and 6 moon lights and is anodized a bronze color. No name on it,
and from the looks it was part of the display that has the base and
tank assembly with overhead support for light.....The entire setup
would be a cool reef tank.........but just for having koi and common
goldies on display to sell inthe store, what a waste of money.



On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:35:17 -0600, "Pszemol"
wrote:

What fixture would you recomend for a 3 foot long tank ?
It is 58 gallon oceanic without center frame brace.
It is "reef-ready" tank with center back wall overflow.

Currently running with home-made 2 x 96W power compacts lamp.
Was thinking to upgrade to some 3 x 96W pc or maybe some T5 ?
Like to run 2 actinics and 1 white to have more blue in tank.

Anything decent currently on the market worth checking out ?



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I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!

"Tristan" wrote in message
...
I am a cheapskaaate when it comes to paying what they want for
lights. I prefer to make my own or at least the hood and buy a
retro.....BITCH SLAP!


Why is it of the opinion it has to be "
TREATED" with something , you dumbass stalker of old ladies and cripples!

I would strongly suggest they look else where for info instead of
having you dictate a fix! Like its been said, before, Roy "Tristan" Hauer,
aka ~ Roy or whatever else name he decides to call himself is
nothing but a purveyor of erroneous and plagarized info......

"Tristan" wrote in message ...
I am a cheapskaaate when it comes to paying what they want for
lights. I prefer to make my own or at least the hood and buy a retro
kit. If yur good at DIY and can make a suitable hood, adding in retro
fit parts and yur old lights would be cheapest, and would fill that 3
x 96 watt criteria you mentioned, and probably still have room for a
few tubes of T5...

The problem with DIY projects is that I have too many of these open...
I am terrible in terms of closing what I started working on :-)
That is why I would recently rather buy a lamp which is ready to plug in.

On reefcentral.com they recommend going with T5 made by Tek.
Anybody here uses this fixture maybe ? Any opinions ?

The goldfish and smallkoi tank at the local Deathco store here has a
light over it that I would love to have. Its certainly overkill for a
koi and goldfish tank. It has an aluminum extrusion housing, and is
suspended on acrylic tubes from an overhead framework of polished
aluminum.....tank itself is perhaps 36 x 36 x 30 inches and its all
acrylic...The light has 8 T5 tubes as well as 2 175 MH lights in it, 4
fans and 6 moon lights and is anodized a bronze color. No name on it,
and from the looks it was part of the display that has the base and
tank assembly with overhead support for light.....The entire setup
would be a cool reef tank.........but just for having koi and common
goldies on display to sell inthe store, what a waste of money.

Yes, it sounds like an overkill, but they want to present expensive koi good.

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:11:28 -0600, "Pszemol"
wrote:
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The koi they sell do not inmprove under any kind of lights. TYo get
the most ouyt of a koi they need to be viewed in a blue tub, from the
top, and thats impossible to view a koi in that setup. I have a
feeling its a sal****er setup / display that they decided to put their
$3.99 domestic culls they sell as premium koi in since folks used to
rasie heck with them being in a smaller setup. All your gonna find in
the koi world for $3.99 Retail is bait and culls......;-)

Yes, it sounds like an overkill, but they want to present expensive koi good.



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I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!

Roy "Tristan" Hauer stalker of old ladies and crippled men
wrote in message
...

Blah] [mumble] [blah] you mentioned the [mumble] Ed Alston [whine] [mumble]
Hipcrime. I [yap-yap-yap] a copy of hipcrime [mumble] some [ramble]
[mumble] [blah] [bark] [mumble] Carol [mumble] [blah] [yap-yap-yap] liked
the way [Blah] worked.[Spew] and I [blah] may have to go and install
[blah] Gail
[chatter] library and [cackle] and see [blah] [gobble] it [mumble] do.
[Mumble] [mutter] something [mumble] [yelp] [howl] to make groups
[blah] [babble] [mumble] delete groups, [blah] Carol [Mumble] [mumble]
[blah] wrong on that aspect, but I do [mumble] Gail [stutter] Ed Alston
[blah] for
manipulating posts......but back [blubber] I had [mumble] need, now I
have [mumble] Carol [bitch] so [mumble] now there [mumble] a need......


[Mumble] [spit] jogging my [mumble] with [yackety-yak] [mumble]
hipcrime. [gibber] Carol [lament] Ed Alston [Blah] [blah] it somewhere
around my
[yak-yak-yak] here, and [huff and puff] Carol [spew] it. Losing quality
sleep
[spew]...........

Just Roy

I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!

"Pszemol" wrote in message ...
What fixture would you recomend for a 3 foot long tank ?
It is 58 gallon oceanic without center frame brace.
It is "reef-ready" tank with center back wall overflow.

Currently running with home-made 2 x 96W power compacts lamp.
Was thinking to upgrade to some 3 x 96W pc or maybe some T5 ?
Like to run 2 actinics and 1 white to have more blue in tank.

Anything decent currently on the market worth checking out ?

What do you guys and gals think about this lamp:
http://www.current-usa.com/outerorbithqit5ho.html

Model 1071: 2x150watt HQI + 2x39W 420nm + 2x39W 460nm.
Dimmensions: 36" x 15" x 4.25", inluding moon light LED.
The price is little high ($679 @ marinedepot) but...

Pszemol wrote:

The price is little high ($679 @ marinedepot) but...

http://www.globeaqua.com/orbit_outer_lighting.html

I do not know anything about this outfit except the fact that the prices are
very good.

George Patterson
No one ever says "It's only a game." when his team is winning.

"George Patterson" wrote in message news:Lxpvh.533$Pw3.464@trnddc01...
Pszemol wrote:

The price is little high ($679 @ marinedepot) but...

http://www.globeaqua.com/orbit_outer_lighting.html

I do not know anything about this outfit
except the fact that the prices are very good.

The price $439.00 is for the older model 1041,
with one HQI and two power compact tubes...

I was talking about T5 model 1071, with two
HQI 150W and four 39W T5 tubes, this one is $679 at
marinedepot.com and I did not see it on globeaqua.com