Coral Reef Lighting

[nauticalnut01]

I have a 24" CURRENT T5HO Reef light with a 10,000K buld, and an Actinic buld, not too sure about how many watts. but I was wondering which other kind of bulbs are better and more efficient than these factory bulbs? Which would make my corals grow better and look better? I have a hammerhead coral, a Pulsing Xenia Coral, and a purple tipped anemone. A clown fish, pink dotty, and a blue damsel, and a peppermint shrimp. Live rock. Also, what can I use to make Coraline Algae grow faster? I have too much red hair algae and too much green algae, did a water change, and need advise as to what can I get to make the algae go away? My temp. in my 36 gallon bowfront tank is set at 80F degrees.

 

[nauticalnut01]

Anyone?

 

[N-E Cichlids]

I believe the 24" bulbs are 29 watts each. Ideally you want 3-4 watts per gallon for a reef tank. I have used geisman bulbs in the past and I currently run wavepoint bulbs. You want to look at the lumens output of the bulbs you are using. I would look into a 4 bulb unit.

 

[SnowballDevil]

i was gonna try one of those new led lights but i broke my big reef down. maybe next time. i had giesmann too. three 400 watts over eight feet long tank. looked good to me. hot though.