Thanks for all your replies I think it will be halide or led I dont want to pay $300 every 6 months on t5 bulbs. And I dont know much about led except I see alot of leds of sale and only used for 2-3 months then they uprated so that tells me there are slot of garbage led fixtures.

Red and pink way nicer? I have a pink digitata right underneat the 250 watt MH and I can't imagine more pink than that...Again strong light is the key here and the proper parameters. I bought the other frags of this coral 2 months later and it was kept under T5HO, but it is dull as can be, more like a tan/beige pink than a candy pink like the one in my tank under MH.

So the red and pink are more intense in color under T5HO?

here is the digitata... I don't think you can get anything more pink than this and it's not photoshopped, it the natural color of my little cam taken underwater: You can see the orange digitata on top of the pic.

I beleive the stronger the light the better the color, and of course low nitrates and phosphates and good food. Taken under a Phoenix 14K 250 watt MH with HQI ballast (Coralife fixture).


http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/y...s/pinkdigi.jpg