I have a few of these, the actinic is very meh, doesn't compare to VHO or NO actinic at all. It isn't the wattage, nobody has done a very good job of T5 actinic until recently and AFAIK there are only HO T5 actinic that are decent. I replaced my actinic bulbs with 20000k blues, it looks better but things like green corals don't really seem to "glow" like they do under true actinic.
Any place that deals in Hagen stuff should be able to get you 2 40W actinic bulbs and an electronic remote ballast for them at about $150 or less.
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