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kien 12-05-2015 05:50 AM

My tank lights are currently..
 
What does your (primary) tank's lighting currently consist of? I'm not counting moon lighting by the way !

Myka 12-05-2015 12:32 PM

T5 only for my schticks. :)

patpare 12-05-2015 01:34 PM

Currently using LED but I'm in the prosses of switch to t5

FishyFishy! 12-05-2015 02:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Myka (Post 972660)
T5 only for my schticks. :)

Me dose.

However going with halides and a sick amount of T5's with my new canopy.....oh....and some par38's in between the halides....might be overkill....

kien 12-05-2015 03:21 PM

Halides+T5s here. I want to know what the "other" lighting is??!

FishyFishy! 12-05-2015 04:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kien (Post 972675)
Halides+T5s here. I want to know what the "other" lighting is??!

VHO?

sphelps 12-05-2015 04:44 PM

What's T6? There's T8 and T12 but never heard of a T6. There's also no option for halide+t5+led. Seems like lots of options for other.

Proteus 12-05-2015 05:06 PM

T5 for me.

Currently running
6 blue +
1 actinic
1 purple plus

Would like to here what other t5 combos people have

kien 12-05-2015 05:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sphelps (Post 972688)
There's also no option for halide+t5+led. Seems like lots of options for other.

That combo probably falls under other :-)

And that's why there is an "other" option because there can be so many "other" options ? :-)

The Google will tell you al about T6 which really should have fallen under "other" as well but I recently found some tanks using them.

Myka 12-05-2015 05:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Proteus (Post 972691)
T5 for me.

Currently running
6 blue +
1 actinic
1 purple plus

Would like to here what other t5 combos people have

All ATI:
Blue+
Blue+
Coral+
Aquablue Special
Blue+
Blue+

Aquattro 12-05-2015 05:29 PM

This poll is so disappointing :) I feel so alone now...

mike31154 12-05-2015 05:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kien (Post 972675)
Halides+T5s here. I want to know what the "other" lighting is??!

Plasma, it's out there. And yeah, I'd never heard of T6 either. Mox Nix though, since I still say fluorescent, as good as it is for our application, will become increasingly difficult to source in the future, especially those funky spectra used in our application.

Forgot to include Xenon arc as a possible 'other'.

Ryanerickson 12-05-2015 05:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aquattro (Post 972697)
This poll is so disappointing :) I feel so alone now...

Turned my t5's back on with the halides last night Brad more to help heat the room then anything lol

Aquattro 12-05-2015 05:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ryanerickson (Post 972707)
Turned my t5's back on with the halides last night Brad more to help heat the room then anything lol

Ya, my house is warm :)

I would have liked to build some T5 into my setup, but thought of that AFTER building my canopy 2" too narrow. Oh well.

spit.fire 12-05-2015 06:39 PM

there should be a way to select 3 different options for my different tanks:mrgreen:

Ryanerickson 12-05-2015 06:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spit.fire (Post 972714)
there should be a way to select 3 different options for my different tanks:mrgreen:

In the same boat Tyler but went with my frag tank other 2 tanks are led and I don't like them so much.

Delphinus 12-05-2015 10:09 PM

Currently LED + T5 for me, but hopefully within a week or two it will be "LED, T5 and Halide" (which wasn't a listed option, I guess "other"? :lol:). I'm going to shoehorn 2 Radiums back over my tank, because honestly after going away from Radiums, the tank was just never the same for me. So I'll keep the LEDs for the primary I think, T5's flanking for supplementation, and then the two Radiums will pile drive some additional intensity for mid-day. Will see how it goes, I have to modify my light rack to accomodate all the gear.

kien 12-05-2015 10:25 PM

I seriously didn't know that using all three light technologies at once was a thing :lol: Shows you how behind the times I am.

Muller 12-06-2015 04:55 AM

Switched from T5HO to DIY LED last year and never looked back. Loving my LEDs as is everything else.

Dearth 12-06-2015 08:47 AM

T5s

2 actinic
2 lagoon blue
2 midday

Tomjay 12-06-2015 03:58 PM

Halides+T5s
2x250/4x54

theokie 12-06-2015 04:54 PM

I supplement my Kessil 360's with a 400w Radium

mikepclo 12-08-2015 09:53 PM

All T5's
Pure actinic
Pure actinic
Super blue
Fiji purple
New gen
Super blue
Pure actinic
Pure actinic

Ryanerickson 12-08-2015 11:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikepclo (Post 973250)
All T5's
Pure actinic
Pure actinic
Super blue
Fiji purple
New gen
Super blue
Pure actinic
Pure actinic

Someone likes the blue lights

kien 12-09-2015 01:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theokie (Post 972835)
I supplement my Kessil 360's with a 400w Radium

Wait, whut?! Halides are "supplemental" lighting now? :lol:

mikepclo 12-09-2015 08:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ryanerickson (Post 973254)
Someone likes the blue lights

Actinic experiment ;)

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Scythanith 12-10-2015 04:11 AM

T5/LED hybrid

gregzz4 12-10-2015 06:06 AM

T5 HOs here

ATI and happy

I re-wired my fixture to control all 4 ballasts

1 and 8 Blue Plus
2 and 7 Coral Plus
3 and 6 Aquablue Special
4 and 5 Aquablue Special and Coral Plus

So I run 2 Blue Plus, 3 Coral Plus and 3 Aquablue Special

Your mileage will vary
And you will probably notice I don't use any actinic bulbs

Don't fixate on lights !!!

Wheelman76 12-10-2015 07:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gregzz4 (Post 973431)
T5 HOs here



ATI and happy



I re-wired my fixture to control all 4 ballasts



1 and 8 Blue Plus

2 and 7 Coral Plus

3 and 6 Aquablue Special

4 and 5 Aquablue Special and Coral Plus



So I run 2 Blue Plus, 3 Coral Plus and 3 Aquablue Special



Your mileage will vary

And you will probably notice I don't use any actinic bulbs



Don't fixate on lights !!!


How do you like the colour Greg? That's a really white bulb combo.

Dearth 12-10-2015 08:48 AM

My original T5s made my tank look so dark and dungeon looking that the next order I went full on light bright which I quickly discovered was too bright so toned it down to current setup now I bought more lights and going to tone the brights down a lil more to put more emphasis on blue than bright see how that goes


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