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So for the last couple of months I have had a 4x14x18 marine tank running with a bunch of live rock and fish. I was running a twin t8 unit white/blue combo and noticed that a piece of Xenia was still going strong I put a small eggcrate shelf in the tank halfway up and built a hanging hood containing 4x 39w t8 tubes. I have had a variety of corals on the shelf for around 6 weeks now and they are doing great some are even starting to multiply.. These are the tech specs I have been using. Nothing has changed for 6 weeks besides doing water changes every 2 weeks.

Skimmer-Berlin X2 turbo
Flow-2x 500lt powerheads
Mech filtration-internal skimmer box filter wool and sponge with 600lt powerhead
Lights-4x39W T8 fluro 2x white 2x coral blue
Live rock-45kg
Corals- Xenia, heaps of morphs, branching dendro, leather coral, catalaphylia
Fish-4x stripey butterfly, 6x cardinalfish

Now regular water changes have been important and as a result my water quality has been excellent bar a minor hiccup, the aim of this was to see how many t8 tubes it would take to light 180lts of area. I figure the overall result is a cheap way to setup but not cost effective in the long run as 2xt5's would have done the same job

Edited by Riggertron, 23 August 2011 - 12:37 PM.