Lighting 48w HO t5 fixture on 20 gallon. Livestock? [Archive]

SKIFish

10-09-2005, 08:06 AM

Hey, I just bought a 48w T5 HOfixture for my aquarium and I am wondering what I can keep in it. any thought are appriciated.

zoo-a-holic

10-09-2005, 09:37 AM

you will be able to keep mushrooms, zoanthids, leathers, things like that.

dakar

10-09-2005, 10:56 AM

At 10W/gallon you should not have much difficulty keeping most softies and LPS coral (frogswpan, hammers, stuff like that) at all, some SPS may even do well, but require a very established tank to do well.

jerryc

10-09-2005, 11:33 AM

At 10W/gallon you should not have much difficulty keeping most softies and LPS coral (frogswpan, hammers, stuff like that) at all, some SPS may even do well, but require a very established tank to do well.

daker where do you get 10 watt per gallon i only come up with 2.4

dakar

10-09-2005, 08:05 PM

Argh! That was using the some of the new math formulas they are teaching kids today, things just don't work out right anymore. :lol:

Good catch Jerry, not sure how I managed to come up with that number at all... dang I never should have quit drinking, lost my best excuse. Disreguard my previous post.

jerryc

10-09-2005, 08:46 PM

Thouight i was miseing

jerryc

10-09-2005, 08:52 PM

Oops don't be playing with the keyboard while reading