Lighting Requirements

[olezontie]

Ok, I have to confess, I am starting out to try out keeping SPS, that is the reason for the series of posts. I have "inherited" a marine tank from my friend who migrated, and has been running the tank for a while with the regular stock of fish and a few LPS.

Recently a change in work schedule and a very impressive SPS tank has spurred my interest in keeping the more difficult lot of marine corals.

I understand that my current 150W MH may not provide sufficient intensity for the SPS corals, is 250W MH sufficient for a depth 2.5ft?

Regarding reflectors, does the design matters? Well, my perspective is that a reflector just reflects whatever light that the bulb produces, so as long as the reflector covers the top half of the bulb, it will reflect the light back into the tank, regardless of design.

But I have to admit, I recently came across the Lumanarc on the web, and it looks pretty impressive. Am thinking of getting it, anyone knows if it is sold locally? Have not been to the fish shops very often. I will also appreciate if anyone have lobang for zeovit system as well.

[weileong]

For zeovit system you can approach ocean planet or Paradise Reef. Both are distributors of the zeovit system, Paradise Reef seems to have better stock for the various zeovit stuffs.

DE has the local version of the luminarc, you can approach him at the sponsor forum. The luminarc gives very good spread and you get good coverage in your tank.

Reefaholic is selling his zeovit reactor at good price so you might want to PM him.

If you want to venture into SPS it's highly recommend that you read up more, try out LPS first, SPS keeping is also known as the big money pit or vaccum where you keep pumping in money non-stop. Quite high addictive, that's why sometimes you see pple trying to sell 1 small little frag for $5 or something like that.

[olezontie]

Thanks for the advise. I have been keeping the tank for a while already. I am feeling a little more confident now and I understand that SPS probably does not allow room for experimentation as with LPS.

[ciaolong]

lps can just put the lps at the bottom and the sps at top