Lighting for 36'' Tank?

[T.louderback]

I'm picking up a nuvo 30 on thursday and I still can't decide on lighting. It comes with a kessil 360w and it covers the tank great but I'm worried about the par toward the edges. I'm thinking of using the 360 for now until I get more corals but what would be a good option after that? I'm leaning toward getting another 360 down the road. Thoughts?

 

[jonmos75]

I run 2 Kessil 360WE on my 36" wide tank.

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[T.louderback]

Very nice, they aren't overkill?

 

[jonmos75]

I don't think it is over kill to have two Kessils as it gives me the coverage that I wanted...but other my have another opinion....lol

 

[Nav]

If you look at some of my early FTS, you'll see I ran a single A360W on my 36" for very long... pretty much every coral was very healthy if placed right. I switched to 2 Hydra 26s since I started getting into SPS and started having coral all around the tank...

 

[Vhuang168]

If you are going to do just softies n LPS under the single 360, should be fine. But how deep is the tank back to front? Might look into 2 160s. 2 360s are definitely more than enough.


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[T.louderback]

I only have a few sps at the moment so one 360w should last me a while. the tank isn't very deep front to back