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My new tank !! 3 weeks old


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Great start ! Your water level looks kinda low in the last picture. Might want to get an auto top-off of else your salinity will flux too much.

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If you're going FOWLR, then you might be going a bit intense with the lighting (Unless you just prefer the look of metal halide). Even so, you could cut down the wattage and should be just fine :-) The MH bulb at Home Depot probably isn't in the right spectrum for corals (I think someone here said they were around 4,000K) so it would be most effective as a decorative light. Still, you might want to think about dropping the wattage down, as the added heat/evaporation might not be worth it :)

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Thanks Goofnut , somebody told me the same thing as you did, that the MH ligth form home depot wont have the correct spectrum needed. I was thinking to go with

 

 

 

Flourocent strips:

 

1 x 18" Actinic blue , 15w

1 x 18" Daylight 10.000k or 20.000k

1 x 13w pc 50 /50

 

 

or

 

 

2 x 50/50 18" 15w flouroucent strips

1 x 13w pc 50 /50

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