metal hals

[chandu64]

what's goin on guys and gals. first off, i havent been on in a while, im at work all the time now. i manage an aquarium store called tanks a lot in ocala, florida. we deal with both salt and fresh water. drop by if your driving through central florida. n e way, i need a bit of a suggestion. i just got a 400watt mh ( for free, one of the benifts for working with fish all day). its a 14k. that being said, i put the mh over my tank to see how it would look and its great. in my old hood, i had 2x65watt pc. seeing as how the mh is a 14k, would it make sence to put th pc's in the new hood and make them both actinic??? 14k is pretty blue n e way. what i might end up doing is switching the bulb for a 10k. im not to sure, for now im leaving the pc's on it. ill have picture on here shortly, but for now, im pic less. thank sfor any and all suggestions.

[Hop]

Depends on what you like. thinking that you will only need about 4 or 5 hours of 400 watt MH on a day, it would be nice to supp. with act... 2 maybe, or if you find things a little too blue, you can put a 10k in there also... Keep in mind "heat control"!

[chandu64]

heat is not an issue; the canopy is really tall and the bubl sits about a foot and a half away from the surface. at the store i work at, we run mh for longer than 5 hours. i think we have the timers set for 7hrs

[Hop]

Your corals and electric bill will tell you

[bosscrab]

I say keep the floros too.