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Have found the metal halides I want to use but can't get them till next pay day :D

Sorry, I haven't read the whole topic : about the lighting, have you considered doing it with LEDs ?

Could be great : sunrise, sunset effects with all the spectrum changings.

A lower consumption with a longer lifetime than MH.

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Sorry, I haven't read the whole topic : about the lighting, have you considered doing it with LEDs ?

Could be great : sunrise, sunset effects with all the spectrum changings.

A lower consumption with a longer lifetime than MH.

I had looked at using LEDs but for the size of my tank it would probably cost $1000, with MH's i could get twin 150w fittings (excluding lamps) for $280

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So I decided to test the water and added a dummy fish, swam around happily for about an hour or 2 and then slowly stopped swimming and more or less started drifting :dead%fish . Might need to drain the tank and refill? (could be the resin leaching chemicals? sand?) I've added some carbon for now incase it is chemicals so I can start removing them. Only other thing I added was "sera" crystal to help filter out the cloudyness, could that be the problem?

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Water is now fish friendly, all the fish out of my holding tank have now gone in.

Lighting is finished, nice metal halide during the day with a t8 timed to come on in the evening

Have now decided to go for a Malawi setup, plants don't work well with the background (hides too much of it)

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