The biggest question you'll have to deal with is how often do you want
to trim back your plants? With that much light the plants will be
growing by leaps and bounds. Look for algae when you do severe cutbacks.

Cannibul wrote:
On Sun, 01 Dec 2002 16:35:34 -0800, Cannibul
wrote:


Ok, I'm getting ready to swap my shop lights for AH Supply kits. I
have two shop lights over a 55 gallon which gives me 160 watts of
light. The question I have is - Will two 55 watt AH Supply kits give
me about the same amount of Usable light? Or should I just go all out
and get four 55 watt kits? Or I could put a couple of over driven T-8
bulbs in the canopy with the AH Supply kits.



Ok, I got the 2 x 55 watt kit from AH supply and it's brighter than
the two shop lights I had on the tank. It looks awesome. Now for the
good question. Is there anyone running a 4 x 55 watt kit on a 55
gallon tank? I'm thinking why not go all out and see how much alage I
can grow!