Would this be too much light?

Huh? It's good to have algae for your Africans... Jordy loves GreenAlgae...

At a 12" depth, 105w is a lot of light, so yes, you're looking at a lot of green algae. Since you're probably going to have plants, how about several smaller, inexpensive LED strips off Ebay?

I agree, you're going to end up with an algae farm. The mbuna will appreciate some of it, but you'll soon be overrun with that much power and only 12" depth. Even if you later changed the setup to a planted tank, you'd likely need to run CO2 at that PAR.

A nice LED will keep the power consumption low and still bring out the fishes colour.

O

haywood said:

Can you recommend some LED's? Do they use a lot less energy than the t5's?

Click to expand...

Yes, regular LED uses a lot less energy than fluorescent. These are the types I use for my 29gals which has a depth of 18", and they are plenty bright. http://www.ebay.com/itm/18-28-38-48...t=LH_DefaultDomain_0&var=&hash=item5d515c3c50