Enough light for SPS???

[the curious]

Heya guys, I have a 30 gallon cube tank, not the biocube, just glass, and I've ben thinking about setting it up as a combination frag and SPS tank.

I found a light that pushes 1 150W HQI, and 2 14W T5 Hight Output. I know this would be fine for soft coral frags, but would this be enough light for SPS in this size tank?

Thanks guys

 

[bdesper311]

yep, that should be grow sps just fine!

 

[cbj25]

This should be enough light for sps, clams, really anything.

 

[ivegotcrabs]

who makes it
just curious

 

[the curious]

IVEgotCRABS;610129 wrote: who makes it
just curious

Its Odyssea brand, which I've never heard of, but they have really great prices on lights and replacement bulbs at this website.

http://www.aquatraders.com/Odyssea-18in-Metal-Halide-Pendant-p/54242.htm">http://www.aquatraders.com/Odyssea-18in-Metal-Halide-Pendant-p/54242.htm</a>

Thanks alot guys, I figured it would be enough, but just wanted to make sure

 

[ivegotcrabs]

i just bought the exact same light
i am happy with it so far

and to answer your question yes that is more than enough light for sps or any thing you could put in your tank

 

[the curious]

IVEgotCRABS;610156 wrote: i just bought the exact same light
i am happy with it so far

Awesome, I've been doing some reading up on this brand of lights, and it seems to me like they used to be a company that sold pretty crappy ballasts and lights w/ their product.
The newer models seem to be much better quality than the old, and at a fraction of the price of "high-end name-brands".

I think I'm setting up a new tank...:yay:

 

[raisedonnintendo]

Everything under the sun.

 

[jead85]

you guys should really give us a detailed long term review of these guys. it should be interesting.

 

[the curious]

jead85;610201 wrote: you guys should really give us a detailed long term review of these guys. it should be interesting.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1688567">http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1688567</a>
Already found it:up:. It seems, as I said earlier, that some reefers just won't touch this brand, due to its "poor reputation", but since the company has improved their ballasts, and their overall quality, people who bought these recently seem to be more than pleased. At a fraction of the cost of a "name-brand", it seems like a winner to me, being a broke college student

 

[the curious]

I have a coralife power compact 48" fixture w/ 2 55w actinic and 2 65 w 10000k, totaling around 260 or so watts on my 55 gallon reef. This turns out to be 4.73 watts/gallon.

on the 30 gallon I'd be pushing 178w, which would be about 5.93 watts/gallon.

I've been told that I couldn't keep any SPS in my 55, due to not enough light. Is this because I have power compacts on the tank, or does that extra 1 watt/gallon make all the difference? I'm guessing that the power compact is just inferior to the HQI, but just wanted to make sure.

I keep a red montipora cap near the top of my tank, and it is growing and doing just fine, but I really want to get acroporas and birdsnests, and a clam.

 

[the curious]

Thanks, thats just the info I needed

 

[the curious]

Amici;610318 wrote: Best advice I have is to head over to Reef2Reef and check out the members tank section for tanks the same size as yours. Thats how I learned how strong certain lighting was and where corals thrived. I was such a nerd I would take notes of where people had placed large colonies of coral and what lighting they were under. It really helped to figure out how much light a certain coral needs and how powerful each type of lighting is.

Awesome, I will absolutely do that. I feel like a bit of a nerd in this hobby myself. I'm always writing down plans, keeping logs, and I can't count the hours I've spent researching in books and online.

I love it though. I'm sure everyone here feels the same way, but I'm currently trying to figure out how I can turn this amazing hobby into my profession. I've been cleaning tanks locally in Milledgeville for about a year, which has given me many ideas of what to do and what not to do. I have a new client w/ a 200 gallon koi tank, but he has been talking about digging himself a pond, and turning his tank into saltwater. So, I'm experimenting w/ culturing my own live rock right now.

 

[the curious]

Amici;610335 wrote: This is real easy, either take man made or harvested rock. Get a heater, flow, bottle of stability, bottle of MB7 and let it sit. The even easier way is to put that rock in with one piece of live rock. It wont "look" alive but within a few weeks it will have the cultures you need.

I'm actually using a combination of portland cement, aragonite, and rock salt to create my own rock. I have a 50 gallon tub that I'll be curing out the rock in. once the rock salt has completely dissolved, in a freshwater precycle "so to speak", I do plan on adding some of my main tank's live rock to help seed the newly created rock