How much light is too much

Buckshot386 · 01/12/2016, 06:58 PM

Hello all and thank you in advance for any input good or bad.... Well here is what I got I have a 60 gallon saltwater tank with live rock 60 plus pounds live sand around the same 2 hang on back filter's raited for 50 to 70 gallons each for mechanical plus a 48 inch 6 bulb t5 fixture that has 3 aquawhite and 3 aquablue that came with the light that matches the foot print of my tank my main question is how much light is to much nothing in the tank seems unhappy but then again I don't speak clown nem crab or zoanthid or gsp please let the input fly .... On and by the way this is my first post on rc or any other forum so please be nice if I am not doing things in the right order and remember I'm a fast learner

Luke Schnabel · 01/12/2016, 08:09 PM

Well we don't know exactly what you have in the tank. Sounds like you have rock and sand. but if you have any fish, they won't be effected by light. If your trying to grow coral. They will, too much will kill them fast, to little will kill them slow. It seems like for most people T5s are just fine to grow just about any coral. I use LEDs so I wouldn't know.

Explain what your livestoxk is and we can go from that and better answer

Buckshot386 · 01/12/2016, 08:32 PM

Hello Luke my live stock is 2 clown fish 1 anemone crabs and snails some green star polyp an some random zoanthids

01/12/2016, 06:58 PM	#1
Buckshot386 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: North central florida Posts: 2	How much light is too much Hello all and thank you in advance for any input good or bad.... Well here is what I got I have a 60 gallon saltwater tank with live rock 60 plus pounds live sand around the same 2 hang on back filter's raited for 50 to 70 gallons each for mechanical plus a 48 inch 6 bulb t5 fixture that has 3 aquawhite and 3 aquablue that came with the light that matches the foot print of my tank my main question is how much light is to much nothing in the tank seems unhappy but then again I don't speak clown nem crab or zoanthid or gsp please let the input fly .... On and by the way this is my first post on rc or any other forum so please be nice if I am not doing things in the right order and remember I'm a fast learner

01/12/2016, 08:09 PM	#2
Luke Schnabel Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Canton. Ohio Posts: 288	Well we don't know exactly what you have in the tank. Sounds like you have rock and sand. but if you have any fish, they won't be effected by light. If your trying to grow coral. They will, too much will kill them fast, to little will kill them slow. It seems like for most people T5s are just fine to grow just about any coral. I use LEDs so I wouldn't know. Explain what your livestoxk is and we can go from that and better answer __________________ In wall 125 gallon display and 48g frag tank w/ 75gallon sump Apex Controlled, 2xMP40, 1 MP10, Ecotech M1 return, reef octopus x5000, 4x Ecotech Radion G2 with T5 supplament(Display), 2x AI Hydras (fr

01/12/2016, 08:32 PM	#3
Buckshot386 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: North central florida Posts: 2	Hello Luke my live stock is 2 clown fish 1 anemone crabs and snails some green star polyp an some random zoanthids