lighting ?

p.s. all metyal haluides and mercury vapors and high pressure sodiums
from home deopt and lowes are the improper spectrum for good coral
growth, you will need special coral lights, theres almost no way around
this unless you will settle for NO's, then if so, you can go to lowes
and homedepot and but the 10 dollar 4 feet fixtures, then go to the fish
store and buy the bulbs.



wolfhedd



That is the way I plan on going. If I set up a larger tank I will get
the wal-mart lighting and replace the bulbs with the same thing I use
for lighting in my fresh water tanks for live plants.
The bulbs may only be 15 watts, but they produce 8,000 K each. The
16,000 K is more than enough for my healthy plants and should be fine
for some of the low light soft corals.

I think I am going to leave my small tank the way it is without corals.
I like the damsels and rocks just the way they are.

Vicki