MH too much for low light corals

[johns120]

Call me odd but many times I prefer many low lighters over high light loving SPS. I am planning on setting up a 20 long and want mainly shrooms and polyps. The trouble is I have to have the flickering that MH's give. So the quiestion is, Will shrooms and poylps get burned under
MH's and.......if so what if i keep the shrooms on either end if the mh bulb is centered?

 

[Anonymous]

They won't get burned if you acclimate them to the light slowly. Also, you can get 70W MHs...not very intense but still gives ya that cool glitter line.

 

[Anonymous]

I hear ya'; the lower light guys are a whole 'nother ball park altogether, just like mantis shrimp, SPS tanks, fish only, and other such bobajem...

I always thought that even strong light can be adjusted to lower light loving corals (to a degree...) by raising the Kelvin rating to near ultra blueness and supplemeting with plenty of actinic...

 

[Fozza]

You could always position them strategically under crevices, caves and what not.

Metal Halides aren't the only lights that have that glimmering effect anyhow. I have it on my pico with just a 10w mini compact.

 

[Anonymous]

why do you "have to have" the glittering effect?

 

[johns120]

cause its purty

 

[Anonymous]

i was just curious