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Ok, so I'm about to order new bulbs for my outer orbit fixture and can't decide what I want to do.

Currently, the fixture has 2x 150w Metal Halide's, 20k, which are new bulbs right before I bought it. I love the color of them, very very white, slight tint of blue.

It also has 4 48" t5's with individual reflectors. Right now they are 4 460nm actinics, but I was thinking about only running 1, possibly 2 actinics, as I know actinic bulbs put out very little par.
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Last seen with a rabbit in a tank with a hat and a 64 impala.

Well this past weekend was the final push with finishing everything up on my new 75g reef ready tank. I'd like to say it went off without a hitch, but frankly it didn't, and I've had some losses since I started moving everything christmas weekend. Long story short, I should have given it a bit more time to cycle, or only moved 1 fish over at a time instead of all 4 from my 29g, as I had a small (1.0ppm at it's highest) nitrite only spike. Ammonia stayed a solid 0 the entire time, but that tiny bit ...

Well I finally got the aquascaping and all like I want it for the time being. I went with 2 islands, a larger on the right and a smaller on the left wrapping around the overflow...

RO/DI got plumbed through the house from the utility closet, so the line is in there right now filling her up. Hopefully late tomorrow night I'll be adding salt and powerheads to start the cycle

I'll toss up some new pics tomorrow night. I definitely got away from the stacked rock look the ...

Who's with me!