HElP LIGHTING QUESTIONS Power compact

[iamdickie]

OK i bet most of you think im a wacko for asking this but i dont know, so im asking.

I have a canopy setup with 3 ho 40 w florescents, and 2 175 Metal Halide bulbs. One of the metal halide ballests burnt the trasnformer up and i dont feel like fixing it. I the reason im selling it is im sick of the heat, the MH is too hot. I am selling this right now, and i want to replace it with a Power Compact setup from Coralife, it has 4-65 w PC bulbs in it with moonlights. I would be running 2 03 actinic bulbs and 2 10k bulbs.

I have a 75 gallon reef ready oceanic tank 2 feet deep. I want to make sure i can keep my bubble coral alive and would like to know what other corals i could keep. I have some blue and red mushrooms, but that is about it. I would like to get an anemone as well.

PLease let me know if those PC's would be enough

[Phishnoob]

Our anenome is doing great under PC lighting similar to what you described. There is virtually no heat and I keep the two 175W MH's unplugged. We have softies only, and with the exception of my dead brain there have been no problems.

[iamdickie]

Does anyone think that i coudl keep lps corals, i have no intrest in sps corals or clams at all!

[Beal09]

Dingle Berry!

[Tasher80]

I have 4x 65 Watts on a 72 Gallon and I have a Branching Frogspawn and a Torch coral both LPS and they are doing great.

[iamdickie]

Originally Posted by Tasher80

I have 4x 65 Watts on a 72 Gallon and I have a Branching Frogspawn and a Torch coral both LPS and they are doing great.

THank you, you just made me feel much better, i cannot wait until i get the new lights!

anyone else running a setup like this?

[minireefer3]

I have kept LPS and clams under PC's, keep them as high as possible and make sure nothing is blocking there light, they wont fie, but they wont grow very fast either...

[Tasher80]

I bought both of mine pretty large already. But they extend all the way and look beautifull. Some day the metal halides will make their way into my place.

[iamdickie]

Originally Posted by minireefer3

I have kept LPS and clams under PC's, keep them as high as possible and make sure nothing is blocking there light, they wont fie, but they wont grow very fast either...

how deep of a tank did you have?

[iamdickie]

Originally Posted by Tasher80

I bought both of mine pretty large already. But they extend all the way and look beautifull. Some day the metal halides will make their way into my place.

do you have any tank pics?

[Tasher80]

www.imageevent.com/tasher80/
I will have to go look but im not sure if I have pics of the torch coral on there but there are plenty of other pics.