Lights for my new 650gal

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Hi! I am thinking about going with Vertex Illumina 200 LED Lighting Fixture - 48 Inch X 2 for my new 650 gal Build. The area to light up will be 10' X 34" X 34". My question is will 2 of these fixures be enogh for this.
Any other ideas or recommendation will be appreciated.

Thanks!
Vi
 
How wide are the 48" units. The problem with most led's is they don't have a large spread without good optics. So you may need a real wide unit, or extra units to fill the gaps. You could go with the two main lights and supplement them with strips of LEDs or t-5's.
 
heres the site i was looking at
http://vertexaquaristik.com/Products/Lighting/LED/Illumina/IlluminaSR200.aspx
It says it is just 12" wide.
 
I really think you're gonna have some dead spots with a spread like that. I'd consider some type of supplemental lighting.
 
Side to side you will have good coverage front to back is where you are not going to get full coverage even though vertex doesn't us any lenses.




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Might look at sifolgoi fixtures

http://blog.aquanerd.com/2011/07/sfiligoi-genesis-t5-and-led-hybrid-fixture-available-with-five-led-modules.html


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Or 8 x ai sol blues. I run 4 of them over my 48L x 30W x 24T


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this is the reply i got from vertex:

The 1200 would be sufficient. Are you having a canopy or will you
be able to hang the fixtures? Also because of the width of the tank you
might think about adding a couple illumilux in order to make the spread
from front to back a bit better. It might not be needed though depending
on your configuration of the tank.
 
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