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Hi,

Was thinking of creating a 1ft tank, and while it is easy to find the size of the tank, i am having trouble with the lighting requirements

my main problems are the lack of a good light set for 1 ft and the lack of avaliability of 1ft light tubes especially atinic blue tubes....

anyone have any suggestions for a 1 ft tank lights??

i want to keep anemones if possible...

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Pretty hard bro... 1ft tube... perhaps you wanna try MH (if ur tank is in an air con environment during day time i.e. office)... 75W MH perhaps... you need pretty decent lighting to keep Anemone happy... but for your tank volume (1 ft) you have to be extra careful as a dying Anemone can pollute and wipe off everything in your tank within hours. You don't call it Time Bomb for nothing :D

All the best to you bro :)

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hi,

thanks guys

I dont think i would use a MH light... its just too hot...

might want to try with the Pl though... any idea where sell the replacement bulbs and the light set??

will the 9W PL light be sufficent for the anemone??

doesnt look like it to me... :(

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hi,

thanks guys

I dont think i would use a MH light... its just too hot...

might want to try with the Pl though... any idea where sell the replacement bulbs and the light set??

will the 9W PL light be sufficent for the anemone??

doesnt look like it to me... :(

I've seen some China/Taiwanese brand at AquaMarin. Yupe I don't think you should attempt Anemone with 9W PL <_<

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so no anemones i guess

Nope... no Anemeno with that kinda lighting... :(

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Hi Gambit;

Lights for nano are difficult to come by to keep anything that has high demand on lights. Unless you are good at DIY otherwise most off the shelve is low in wattage..

I currently doing a pico that uses standard desktop 20W PC cool day lights. Can also fit a 24W PC bulb. The only setback is that color is 6500K, anything else will not be available. With that I can keep pretty much of the coral that can fit in the pico...

But if you ever think of any tough corals to keep, the tolerance in water parameters is most difficult to maintain. Anemone is almost a "No no", not juz because of light, but a tank crasher even a small part rots..

Equipment:

30G Corner Tank with 10G Sump, 2 x 24W artinic T5, 1 x 24W 10K, 1x 24W 20K, 3" Grade 0 sand & Live rocks, Activated Carbon, Bio-home, 2 x Seio M620, Hailea 1/2HP Chiller, Redsea Pro Skimmer

Live Stock:

Turbo Snail x 1, Green Mandarin Dragonet X 2, Blue Tang X 2, True percular x 2, 1 x Algae Bleenie, Clarke clown x 2

Reef:

1 x 2" Blue maxima, Red/Brown/Purple Mushroom (Discosoma), Pink Ricordea yuma, A little colony Brown/Green common Zoanthus, Red/Pink/Green US Zoanthus, Eagle-eye Zoathus, 14 Branch Goniopora Pandoraensis, 1 Starburst Polyps, 3 + 2 Branch Frogspawn, 4 Blasto, palythoa, Cheato

RIPs (Since June 2005):

1. Sabae clown (KO by Clarke clown) 2. 1 branch melted frogspawn 4 branch 3. Golden maxima (Ripe the base off rock by me) 4. Algae Bleenie x 2 (Starvation) 5. Blue Maxima x 1, 2 x Maxima, 1 x frogspawn, rics (Overtemp...)

Old 30G Corner Tank.

Restarted 30G Corner Tank.

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