FOWLR Lighting

greenmonkey51 · 04/23/2007, 11:35 PM

I was thinking about my reef plans the last couple days and I figured since I'm moving the tank in a year and a half, it would be better to wait on the coral part and just have some nice fish. I want to get some different lights though for my new setup. Right now I have 2 shop light fixtures with 4x40wt daylight bulbs in it. For cost I'd like to just replace the bulbs with 10,000k bulbs and such, but I'm thinking about replacing it with a 2x65wt CF fixture. Would the CF be necessarily better. If I stuck with the shop light what would be a nice combo of bulbs to make the tank look nice.

dues0009 · 04/24/2007, 12:35 AM

if you are going to go with the fowlr i would say stick with the lights you have and get some 10000k and actinic bulbs. its not really worth it to get the CF fixture. you would be better off getting a mh or t5 fixture when you are ready to start adding corals.

04/23/2007, 11:35 PM	#1
greenmonkey51 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,092	FOWLR Lighting I was thinking about my reef plans the last couple days and I figured since I'm moving the tank in a year and a half, it would be better to wait on the coral part and just have some nice fish. I want to get some different lights though for my new setup. Right now I have 2 shop light fixtures with 4x40wt daylight bulbs in it. For cost I'd like to just replace the bulbs with 10,000k bulbs and such, but I'm thinking about replacing it with a 2x65wt CF fixture. Would the CF be necessarily better. If I stuck with the shop light what would be a nice combo of bulbs to make the tank look nice.

04/24/2007, 12:35 AM	#2
dues0009 Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: duluth, mn Posts: 20	if you are going to go with the fowlr i would say stick with the lights you have and get some 10000k and actinic bulbs. its not really worth it to get the CF fixture. you would be better off getting a mh or t5 fixture when you are ready to start adding corals.