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[jimsflies]

Bet you had plenty of light with the bank of t5's though.

[Mike]

I have also tried all of the popular reflectors now

[jimsflies]

Is anyone else still with us???

[Mike]

The numbers were not bad. The heat issues were the same if not worse due to teh distance of the lamp from the water.

[Mike]

The good thing about halides is you can get a better spread with more distance and also dissipate some heat that way. I had the T5's 6 inches off the water.

[Cash]

still here just taking in everything lol

[schminksbro]

When you think about the number of T% bulbs you need to equal halides, then you overdrive them, you are not really saving any energy. $ overdriven T5s = 432 watts. Almost the same as 2 250 halides without the shimmer.

[Sir Patrick]

Live topic doesnt seem to be working for me, between posting, a whole page goes by.

I thought there were no new replies, then refreshed and missed 3 pages.

Maybe I just dont understand how live topic works

[jimsflies]

I have had thoughts at times, that I am over lighting many of the corals that I keep. I have a 250 halide and 4 t5 actinics currently.

[Mike]

I was running my T5's on IC 660's