fishbait
I found Nemo
i have a lot of personal debate over the wattage per gallon rule of thumb. no doubt it has it's merits. i have this debate because wattage is the amount of energy the bulb consumes, not necassarily the brightness. for instance a 35 watt pc bulb for your'e home emits the same amount of light as a 75 watt incandescent. and a t-5 bulb emits more light than the comparible wattage p.c. personally for me it's hard to decide just what is enough light. no longer than i have been in the hobby i have seen several instances where the wattage per gallon theory has been blown out of the water. one is instance for example is the guy at my lfs has a 75 gallon display. he only has the 230 watt coralife pc fixture. he has had a ruby bubble tip anemone in it for three years (since he set the tank up) and it is huge! it has spit three times. and it's clones are actually still living in the tank too. so for me that kinda blows the 10 watts per gallon rule out of the water. maybe he's just lucky? i personally kept a condi anemone in my tank for the first 4 months ( i know that's not very long) but he did grow tremendously in my tank. i just took him out because he was too aggressive. maybe i should have started a new post for my thoughts on this to keep from causing any confusion. but we were on the subject so i thought what the heck.