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36x12x24 45 gallon tank with 10 gallon sump.

4x96 watt compact fluorescents, 300 gph powerhead, overflow box.

Sump:
Refugium with screw in compact fluorescent flood lamps from Home Depot.
Rio 2100 return pump, Rio 2500 for skimmer. AquaC 180 skimmer. Stealth heater. Mini Jet 606 running two piggy back TLF Phosban reactors (one with Seachem Matrix carbon and one with GFO). 2 gallon RO reservoir for JBJ ATO.

5 gallon water change weekly with RO/DI and Tropic Marin salt 1.025.

Livestock:
Fish: Clarkii Clownfish, yellow tang, six line wrasse.
Snails: Nassarius, astrea, chestnut turbo, margarita
Hermits: blue knuckle, halloween, burgundy, blue leg, scarlet
Inverts: Derasa clam, crocea clam, electric flame scallop, feather duster, sea hare, many fancy sponges, cleaner shrimp
Corals: many zoanthids and mushrooms, frogspawn, acans, fungia, cycloseris, pink/white pompom xenia, symphyllia, montipora (orange, green, sunset, rainbow, superman, purple polyp yellow, purple), millepora, blue acro, green birdsnest

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reptileguy what kelvin is that light in your refugium? seems yellow. i had a 200k light in my refugium and my cheato died. now i have a 6500k light and cant findanyone with cheato

tanbk looks great!
 
I bet you that light is in the 2000's range kelvin wise...

Nice tank reptile guy, it will be great once all your corals spread out and get thick in there. Like your orange fungia.
 
I think those lights are around 5000K. I know they are screw-in compact fluorescent flood lights from Home Depot. Unfortunately home lighting is usually never above 6000K so it is hard to go wrong with it. My chaeto doesn't grow much, but that is okay since I can't detect nitrate or phosphate in my system.

Thanks guys. The xenia has exploded since that picture. The birdsnest has also grown a lot.
 
Xenia will become a weed. One of my first corals and I ended up (mistakenly) selling to an LFS. He didnt put it in his store tanks...he took it home. A couple months later he was selling it at "$5 a Handful" oh boy...

That being said incandescent lights of that color usually have k ratings from 2200k to 2600k...but thats just based on my experience. When I redid my planted tank with Spiral CFL lighting it was hard for me to find bulbs in the 6000's range. Anything else would be disgustingly yellow ha.
 
My damsel dug a hole so deep that it exposed the glass bottom. At night it looks like a Disco.
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Those are spiral CFL in a flood lamp type bulb (built in reflector) so it is higher than 2000K.

I have the pink/white pompom xenia (shorter, stalkier, effectively impossible to get it to stop pumping) and it is honestly my favorite coral.

We sold Xenia for $30-40 at the shop I was running, but the regular type was cheaper. I hate the regular type but love the type I have, go figure.
 
What do you mean by "regular type"? All xenia pumps...it just depends on unknown tank conditions apparently. Mine went through stages of pumping and not pumping. Either way...they spread like mad.
 
I ended up finding 100w equivalent CFLs 6500k spectrums at walmart, they were made by GE, regular mogul base. They were about five bucks a pop. I think they were called HD lighting....pffft.... sure

anyways, here is what they look like
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