well I have been folowing pis of different lighting comparasons and I decide to take pics of all the different combanations of lights that I have on my tank.
first in the morning and late evening it is just actinics like anyone else I guess
then after a hour my two PC's start up so this is the result from that
then after a couple hours my MH is added to the mix to simulate the hot afternoon
then it reverses till night time.
a couple other combanations to show why I like the combanation of 3 different types of lights.
this is the MH and actinics
this is PC's only
and this is the MH only
so I find that the MH on its own is to white, and with just adding actinic to the MH the color is nice but there are to many shadows. by adding the PC's the effect is the shadows are lightened and there is difused lighting which makes the whole tank seam brighter instead of just areas.
Steve
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