How To Light the new tank - Ideas?

[mj32]

Hi All!

For a while now I have been trying to come up with a solution to lighting this tank....

http://www.ultimatereef.net/forums/showthread.php?t=187034

The planned look is for a wall of rock down the 150cm and 60cm and 26cm sides with a central pillar / bommie.

Anyone care to throw in some ideas on how to light the sucker effectivley. I've been looking down the T5 route with a couple of pendants but are concerend over how direct down the light would travel i.e. would the areas not directley under the pendants be lit well.

Idea was 1 x 120cm with 6 54w and 1x 90cm with 6 39w...:rolleyes:

or just belt a couple 250w halides in the centre... or..or....something else.:cool:

Cheers

Mike

[cajen]

Think the answer depends on what corals you're going to keep, but in general, t5s are better than halides if you're worried about shading, as they don't provide just a point source of lighting. For lots of SPS, though, a multiple halide setup would be better.

[mj32]

good point there... main plan is some softies / polyps from the old tank and maybe some lps etc