ten gallon lighting
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The types of coral and critters you want to keep is what determines the type of lighting you need. If you like frogspawn, torch, and mushrooms, then you don't need much light. If you want anemones, clams, and SPS, then you need lots of light. 28w is low for a 10g tank, which means you can do shrooms, softies, some LPS. I've got 32w over my 6 and I have a ton of stuff, and it's very colorful. So it just depends on what you want to keep. I've got a 96w coralife fixture over the 10g that I just took over from my wife. I'll be able to keep more in that tank once I get it under control. There isnt' any reason to spend a bunch of money upgrading your lights through the roof if what you want to keep doesn't require high lighting.
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One thing you could do is simple double what you have - get another 28W fixture which would put you in the 4 almost 5W's per gal range where you should be. If you get a seperate fixture like that you could then set one up with a 10K and one with an actinic bulb and do the dusk/dawn thing with the actinic - thats always a cool effect. I can't do that on my nano because both bulbs are run off the same ballist but on my 125 I run the actinics 14 hours a day and the white only 10.
thanks for the info.....i pretty sure im going with the 96w coralife. i still have alot of mods to do to my ten before i get a light. im building a HOB refugium with a palm light. still drawing it up but its getting close. as for the corals that i want to keep, its up in the air....frags from my tank, frags from my local store....