Hi Everyone,
We dived in at the deep end a few months back and bought a 1,000ltr tank to set up as a reef tank. It has a sump underneath and it did come with an algae scrubber, but having read up on some info here, it would seem that a) it's too small and b) not very effective, so we need to make a new one.
We've worked out that we'll need a screen that's roughly 264 square inches, so one that's 20" x 13.5" should do nicely eh? Based on 1W per square inch, we'll also need 264W of light; 2 x 150W cfls would give us more than we really need, but would it be too much?
Having looked on the internet, most of the cfls we can find are energy saving bulbs and are equivalent wattages, so not necessarily 150W; the only ones we can find that are genuine 150W are the enviro lamps for hydroponics; these are available in 2700k. Is this really what we need or will the energy saving bulbs be enough?
Any help and guidance would be greatly appreciated!