Lighting advice needed 200 gallon tank

[nightmarepl]

Hey guys so I’m thinking on upgrading my lighting on the tank it’s 72x30x22 need some decent coverage and control in a average budget of around 1k

I was thinking of going Orphek light bars like 3 of them or going with the a8 pro max from alibaba but not sure how those work

 

[DEL]

Depends what you want to keep? Softies? LpS? Sps? Fish?

 

[kevin]

I bought 2 orphek or4 uv/violet bars recently for a little more pop.
Quality seems really good. Their wifi app is lacking, but works just fine

 

[nightmarepl]

Depends what you want to keep? Softies? LpS? Sps? Fish?

Softies and lps mostly and ofcourse fish. Very little sps maybe like a bird nest tops

 

[Boehmtown]

I'm a big fan of quanta bars. They aren't the most controllable though. But cheap, powerful and fixed spectrum's, like modern that t5's

 

[nightmarepl]

I'm a big fan of quanta bars. They aren't the most controllable though. But cheap, powerful and fixed spectrum's, like modern that t5's

Yah o was thinking on adding like 2 bars to my current lights which aren’t great

 

[DEL]

Softies and lps mostly and ofcourse fish. Very little sps maybe like a bird nest tops

If you want to go the budget route,
Any regular non name brand led boxes would work. All those corals don't need high par. Orpheks are great. I have 2 i use as supplemental lighting with my xr30s.

 

[The Gooch]

You could run 4 a8se (I prefer x30 blue), be within the $1000 budget, and have the same lighting as 4x radion g6. These knock offs are amazing. The app sucks but for that price who cares.

 

[nightmarepl]

You could run 4 a8se (I prefer x30 blue), be within the $1000 budget, and have the same lighting as 4x radion g6. These knock offs are amazing. The app sucks but for that price who cares.

Yah i was thinking on getting them setting up a program on the app once and that’s it

 

[iTzJu]

Yah i was thinking on getting them setting up a program on the app once and that’s it

for the price, dealing with the app is worth it and once you set it, you wont touch it again until daylight savings lol