Re: [GSAS-Member] AH Supply 4x96 Bright Kit Versus Aquticlife T5 High Output 72" Lighting System

["Jeff Schulstrom" <gobluecichlids@yahoo.com>]

Fluval filter fx5 is a large cannister filter than does tanks up to 400 gal.  I 
have 2 of them.
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Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:51:45 pm
To: "'Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat'" <gsas-member@thekrib.com>
From: "Jeff" <jeff@gotperk.com>
Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] AH Supply 4x96 Bright Kit Versus Aquticlife T5 High 
Output 72" Lighting System

Thanks Paul, great info; forgive me but what is an FX5?


 

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[mailto:gsas-member-bounces@thekrib.com] On Behalf Of Paul M. Wallace
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 9:32 PM
To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat
Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] AH Supply 4x96 Bright Kit Versus Aquticlife T5
High Output 72" Lighting System

Dear Jeff,

The big difference is that the AH Supply is a retrofit so you must have a
hood or box and enough skill to operate a wire cap where the others you list
are fixtures.  In the world a fixtures, slim is in so you may have a lot of
bulbs crammed into a very attractive enclosure but there is just not enough
room to get the photons pointed up back into the tank.  In the club, I know
of a 4X96W fixture over 180 gal.  Great results with CO2 and an FX5!

On my own 180 gal tank I have the same problem of finding a light that
allows good growth and covers 6'.  I was thinking VHO (yes, that VHO) as 6

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