My 225 Tank build

You might want to get rid of that felony sitting there in that picture (Berkeley Farms labelled milk crate) or at least blur it out :) They're REALLY cracking down right now on them.

Nice tank :) What are your lighting plans?
 
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2 or 3 lumenarcs
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To reflect the ambient room light?

What is going in the 2 - 3 Lumenarcs? ;)
 
Any actinics? I'm going with 2x 150 10K reeflux I think, with 2x actinic VHO for my 4x2x2
 
What do you feel is the best T5 actinic(daylight as well :) )? My buddy is setting up an 8 bulb Tek Light and I have never used T5 as main lighting so I have no idea what bulbs are good.
 
Does the Tek light have separate plugs for a number of the bulbs? Or is it always on or always off only?

My experience is that actinic bulbs don't really make much of a difference if they're always on, on my softie tank, I have 4-t5s and like a mix of "daylights" and "blue" (different brand names have different color names last I looked), I originally also tossed on 2 actinic (purple colored) bulbs, I think they were giesemann brand (german) and it really didn't do much. The light was already blued up, and the only think it added was a little night time viewing when the main lights were out.
 
Not sure about the 8 bulb setup, but the for the 4 bulb setup two separate plugs.

I think the vho's will complement the 10k reeflux quite well.
 
There should be 4 ballasts in the 8 bulbs setup. If you want you can open it up and rewire them so you can have 4 switches instead of 2.
 
Why though? It doesn't need to have so many switches in my friends usage.
 
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