Lighting Help!!!!

[zack schwartz]

I have a 50 gallon with a complete hood made buy a local guy not a mass produced one. It has four 36watt pc's and one 150 watt mh 10k. The pcs are 5050 10k and 71k. The dawn dusk effect is hard to get done with the 5050s All pc's run on one ballastst. I need to know what to replace the PCs what to get. I have corals so i would hate for them to go through a big shock if i just put all o3's on. The mh is in the middle and 2 pcs on eitherth side of it. So Should I stick with 5050s what? HELP! Thanks all!
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I was thinking
actinic PC

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what you think. I don't have the money to buy a lot of bulbs and test!

 

[slothy]

why not actinics only on pc's ? the mh will be pretty bright, or 50/50s if you think it might be a tad too blue

 

[von_rahvin]

i would lower your kelvin rating on the mh and go with just actinic pc's.

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i like to have my lights centered. this means that you mount is not going to be centeed. unless you are using germans. that way you pc's can be the dawn dusk while the mh is your mid day.
the lover kelvin rating will give you a more yellow light, so it "should" even out with the just act pc's

 

[zack schwartz]

hmm, well what about the 5050 and actinc setup?

 

[von_rahvin]

a 50/50 light? personally i was not happy witht the light. had a few. it's like the el camino of lights ya know? (nothing against those people who like el camino's out there)