fizztech
New Member
I recently bought new bulbs for my pc hood. I did have 2 96 watt 50/50’s. With this old setup my polyps flourished. When I went to get new bulbs my LFS said, “you can use a 10,000k and an actinic side by side and it will do the same thing.” Well I found out this is not true my buttons get “burned” with the 10,000k and the actinic does not seem bright enough for my star polyps. Neither are opened all the way.
Anyways here are my questions:
1.Does coral prefer different kinds of light (as in actinic or white) if so what do buttons and star polyps prefer?
2.Does actinic even count as light or does it just add a blue hue to the tank? Like I hear it called supplemental lighting… what is this? Although I have 2 96 watts am I only getting useful light from the 10k?
3.I am looking at replacing the actinic with a 50/50 quad pc. Does anyone have experience with these? Are they better, if so how?
Anyways here are my questions:
1.Does coral prefer different kinds of light (as in actinic or white) if so what do buttons and star polyps prefer?
2.Does actinic even count as light or does it just add a blue hue to the tank? Like I hear it called supplemental lighting… what is this? Although I have 2 96 watts am I only getting useful light from the 10k?
3.I am looking at replacing the actinic with a 50/50 quad pc. Does anyone have experience with these? Are they better, if so how?