max lighting

what would be the maximum watts of lighting you could put on a 12 gal?

 

what do you want to keep for coral lps, sps, etc, you could put 70 or 150 watt halides but you will definitely have some heat issues.

off topic what kind of atc do you ride? i ride 85 atc250r.

 

i have a 150watt on a 15gallon everything is doing great. but it is suspended 2 feet over the tank. im thinking of lowering it to about 1 foot. also before the 150watt i tried a 250watt i had lying around that was way too much. it was so bright the fish would hide under overhangs.

 

whatever looks nice colorful grabs my attention my friend works at the lfs so i get hooked up so far ive got some zoos,feather dusters,pulsing exenia,electric flaming scalop,ricordias,bta i had 48 watts of t8s on it but recently put a coralife 150 watt mh on just curious if it was to much or how high should i have it off the water one of my zoo clusters was at the top of the tank and ive been noticing latly its not opening all the way its 4 inches from the top and the lights about 6 inches above----my atc is also an 85 but the sidecase cracked from the chain and i cant find one been looking for a year it sucks been riding atcs since 6 grade and now im 25 i sent a guy $80 2 months ago for one but he keeps bsing i think i got jacked

 

oh yea its been on for about 2 weeks and the heats not an issue just dont know what or if anything will get burnt

 

sos do you have any pics

 

your corals will just need time to adjust, anything thats not opening well id move to the bottom of the tank or under a overhang.

 

sorry i dont have any pictures of the lighting but if you want ill try to remember to take one tommorrow.

 

this is a diy refugium thats on the back it uses the same light source as the tank

 

SO, is that your chiller behind it?