spanko
Active Member
Originally Posted by SCSInet
http:///forum/post/3135915
Actinics don't put out much useful light. It's mostly invisible light that causes corals to fluoresce.
In the end, switching to more actinics will make your tank look bluer, but much darker.
Unfortunately it sounds like you bought one of those oddball fixtures sold by Big Als's, Aqua Traders, etc that take equally oddball lamps, so you may not have many choices.
You may consider going ahead and upgrading to an industry standard T5 system, rather than pouring more money into weird lamps that aren't exactly what you want.
The nice thing about the industry standard lamps is that everyone makes them, so you have more choices.
Agree here, hit it right on the head. However if you are going to keep the fixture you have and not do any additions to it I would go for (2) - 10k/actinic combos. This will give you more white - less yellow than you have and will spread the blue out a bit more making more pleasing to the eye.
JMO
http:///forum/post/3135915
Actinics don't put out much useful light. It's mostly invisible light that causes corals to fluoresce.
In the end, switching to more actinics will make your tank look bluer, but much darker.
Unfortunately it sounds like you bought one of those oddball fixtures sold by Big Als's, Aqua Traders, etc that take equally oddball lamps, so you may not have many choices.
You may consider going ahead and upgrading to an industry standard T5 system, rather than pouring more money into weird lamps that aren't exactly what you want.
The nice thing about the industry standard lamps is that everyone makes them, so you have more choices.
Agree here, hit it right on the head. However if you are going to keep the fixture you have and not do any additions to it I would go for (2) - 10k/actinic combos. This will give you more white - less yellow than you have and will spread the blue out a bit more making more pleasing to the eye.
JMO
