Anyone with MH running with actinic bulbs

[legend]

I was just curious how many actinic bulbs i should have in my new hood. Its a 36" hood going over a 40g breeder tank. I have an opition of having one 175w MH with four 95w VHOs or one 175w MH with two VHO's.
I was considering getting the hood with one 175w mh and the four vho's. The quesition is do i run all the vho's as actinic with just a 10k 175w mh?
I'm just not sure how it would look.....how are your hoods set up? I could make only two of the four bulbs actinic and the other two either a 50/50 or a 10k.
any help would be much appreciated!

 

[zanemoseley]

If you ran all actinic on a 3ft tank with only one MH then the ends may have a tint of blue but IMO I'd probably run all actinic. I run 2x250w MH's and 2x55w Actinic PC's which isn't nearly what you run but IMO I don't have enough.

 

[legend]

this is the hood...its a pretty nice setup.

 

[zanemoseley]

It doesn't really matter since you have a MH bulb in there. Two actinic's would be fine, four would also be fine. Pretty much actinic is just for looks and helps the corals glow.

 

[legend]

cool thanks for your input it helped me a lot!

 

[birdy]

I would just go with the two bulbs, that is what I have over my 58gal and it is perfect IMO with one 250w 10k MH. I have two 95w URI super actinics in it.