Lighting

Ok, so I'm about to order new bulbs for my outer orbit fixture and can't decide what I want to do.

Currently, the fixture has 2x 150w Metal Halide's, 20k, which are new bulbs right before I bought it. I love the color of them, very very white, slight tint of blue.

It also has 4 48" t5's with individual reflectors. Right now they are 4 460nm actinics, but I was thinking about only running 1, possibly 2 actinics, as I know actinic bulbs put out very little par.
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Alrighty... melev's site once again has intrigued me into the point of action. Marc, seriously, for the love of god do not write an article about how jumping off a bridge will spur massive growths in your corals and free frags will show up from all around.

For anybody that is wondering, this is the actual article I'm referencing. http://www.melevsreef.com/fotos.html It's a very good walkthrough on settings most even the basic cameras have and how you can get some high quality shots ...

Figured I would actually toss up some pics of the setup so I can come back to them later and see the progress.

Tank started off a few years ago as a FOWLR setup, as I never really thought a 29 gallon could make a decent reef setup. After seeing a few others (melev's being one of them) I decided to take the plunge and get it going.

As it sits right now, I'm using 2 current usa nova extreme x2 fixtures (they don't make a 4 bulb t5ho in a 30" length, so I purchased ...

Well, I found the site by the way of melev's reef... his 29 gallon is definitely the inspiration for mine.

I started a saltwater tank 3 years ago when I got my apartment. Frankly I always wanted a fish tank, the parents would have nothing of it, so when I got my own place, it literally was the first thing I did. My wife really got interested in it too after we had some diving trips in jamaica for our honeymoon, so she's one of the reasons we've had to turn it into a reef tank (oh ...