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PolandSpring

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check out my tank..i have the same exact light fixture on the same exact tank tek t5 6 bulb on a 90gal 24inch deep... you will have no problem with any coral... sometimes it might be 2 much light for corals and you have to be careful where you place them..i also use ati bulbs so they are very strong.. you can grow sps from anywhere in the tank but be careful with chalices and some zoos and other lps that dont like 2 much light.. you might have to keep those corals shaded and downlow

heres a pick of my tank..

i just started 3 months ago with corals and then i had a problem with the tank so corals bleached a little..but now they are recovering and within a week i've seen my monticap grow about a cm, so im getting great growth and color
 

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JRWOHLER

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Beautiful tanks, so is growth noticibly slower than with MH lighting? What bulb mixtures give the best look (personal prefs I know)?

It is totally personal pref. I have just added one of the blue 460 deepwater bulbs and I love it. I have 8X54W over a 120 so is the same.
To get great color you may want to try adding different bulbs. Different corals you have may color differently under different lights. For example I have purple deaths that were great when I got them guy had them under 14K MH with my T5 I was running 10K they looked ugly brownish almost.
When I added 12K and 14K bulbs into the mix pop they came in purple after a little while. Often a 6500 will give best growth and the higher you go the better the color.

FYI I got a clam from Russ last year at our frag swap in NJ....on the bottom it has grown three times the size in a year at least. You can really trust him on advice and quality critters.
 

jackson6745

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Add me to the T5 list. I just put a 6x25 ATI powermodule on my nano. I had a 250 halide on this tank before and the T5's actually appear brighter to me. Running 4 blue+, 1 GE 6500, 1 Fiji Purple
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