Watts per gallon

[JellyMan]

Originally Posted by jermpool

bifferwines tank about as deep as yours so as many watts as her would be efficient.

I concur.

[Bifferwine]

I have Current Nova Extreme T5s.

[jermpool]

Originally Posted by Acrylic51

Sorry to butt in, but in general watts per gallon is a very poor rule to gauge things by.....You could throw tons of "watts" over a tank and without the right spectrum, kelvin temp, etc....it's worthless....What is the depth of the 46 gallon tank? Depending on depth T5's should work fine.....

I don't want to sound like a know it all jerk, jellyman keep your comments about that to yourself, but for that general rule to be so poor it sure does work for a lot of people.

[AndyB4784]

read this, hopefully it will answer your question (or create some new ones).Lighting Banter and the Problem with "Rules of Thumb"

[jhnrb]

Simply put if you take the 46 gal. and do not subtract for substrait or rock you can use the rule of thumb as previously noted. Enough light will be provided to do what you want as long as you also consider the spectrum and the animals you want to keep. The T'5s should do very nice on the 46 bow front system. For clams and most sps corals though I still recommend MH.

[JellyMan]

Originally Posted by jermpool

I don't want to sound like a know it all jerk, jellyman keep your comments about that to yourself, but for that general rule to be so poor it sure does work for a lot of people.

What the he!! are you talking about I was agreeing with you dumb@$$