My 55 Gallon Upgraded With Mh

[Dispar_Anthias]

This is my 55 gallon tank upgraded with Iwasaki 2x150 watt 20000k MH.....

Sorry for bad pic quality

[Dispar_Anthias]

The light hood............

[DeepBlue]

arrrgghhhhh.......my eyes............................is it too mush for your tank...bro....

I red somewhere one MH for 2 ft...55 galllon..would be 3 ft??

later.....fishes.....all become super tanned

[chey42]

bro ... how much u paid for the lights ...

[diabolus]

i think after a while...u will have BBQed fishes...

[Air]

wat is the colour temp of ur MH lights n the price?

how come all look brown colour 1? is it no corals or its the light?

[SpiderOne]

why u get twin 20kk's ???

[FuEl]

ah...my eyes!

[Joe_P]

Dispar,

Will be good if you could list down the size (dimensions) of your reef....

2 x 150 W sounds real good........ esp if you are headin towards SPS Keeping...

BTW, you are running a chiller for the 55 gallon??

Like your aquascaping.... very nice esp for table formed acros.....

[huskiesg]

What is your water temperature after adding the MHs? Whoa! Big headlights

[DeepBlue]

Dispar,

Will be good if you could list down the size of your reef....

2 x 150 W sounds real good........ esp if you are headin towards SPS Keeping...

BTW, you are running a chiller for the 55 gallon??

Like your aquascaping.... very nice esp for table formed acros.....

I was just thinking about it....I dun remember You talk about chiller, the normal 10000K 150W is very hot oledi...yours is 20000K......

might want to place a fan there.

Anyway....besides the genuine concern....congrats for gettng your mh...I know Ure excited...

Reef on.....

[metals99]

man i am blinded

[SpiderOne]

i dun think colour temperature is proportionate to physical temperature.

[FuEl]

If I had lights like those I would have nothing but clams in my tank.

[junyong84]

wah very bright...

hw can u even look at ur own tank???

[DeepBlue]

you know what I did......I made a big (cupboard) cover with aluminium foil.....so I won't be blinded......

[Air]

i tot 20000k lights r supposed to be very blue?

[marvellous07]

y need to use aluminium foil? cannot jus put cardboard like tat?

[SpiderOne]

aluminium foil is more convenient than laying a sheet of cardboard.

[marvellous07]

orhhh... i c...

[Tanzy]

You will need to reduce your exposure or decrease your aperture size. The picture is grossly overexposed that's why it seems like car headlights and the colour is washed out. With aquariums, it's better to underexposed about -1.5 for better contrast.

[Dispar_Anthias]

hahaha......... sorry for bad picture quality, anyway i am running this light with a chiller and temp is ard 28-29............ BTw my chiller is a little undersize and my larger chiller coming next week................

[Dispar_Anthias]

Dispar,

Will be good if you could list down the size (dimensions) of your reef....

2 x 150 W sounds real good........ esp if you are headin towards SPS Keeping...

BTW, you are running a chiller for the 55 gallon??

Like your aquascaping.... very nice esp for table formed acros.....

Thanks joe............ Yeah i love those nice acros and sps coral in your tank and would love to venture into sps keeping but i am afraid i am not consider as prepared some other guys here who though or already into sps keeping............ Well i guess maybe i will be more confident after asking and reading up more......... Anyway yes i am running the MH with a chiller BTW i dun have a calcium reactor so how to i maintain the amt of calcium in the tank, by using buffer will it be sufficient.............

[Dispar_Anthias]

I was just thinking about it....I dun remember You talk about chiller, the normal 10000K 150W is very hot oledi...yours is 20000K......

might want to place a fan there.

Anyway....besides the genuine concern....congrats for gettng your mh...I know Ure excited...

Reef on.....

Eh 20000k and 10000k MH has no difference in the amt of heat they produce............

Juyong: Nah it is only the picture that seem so bright, in the actual the tank is very clear...............

[DeepBlue]

hahaha......... sorry for bad picture quality, anyway i am running this light with a chiller and temp is ard 28-29............ BTw my chiller is a little undersize and my larger chiller coming next week................

wow...rich man.........er ....kid....er..............bro.....

I have been looking at the reef relieve chiller for so long....too exp for my blood......not even thinking about the titanium ones...........................