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Originally Posted by spawn
I'm running a red sea max 250 with 6 t5 39w bulbs already, 3 x 10000k R.S. orig. bulbs & 3 actinic 1 R.S. orig & 2 giessmen actinic. Not to say that it's not good, just think it could be better. This is my first tank & was started on may 9/2010. would post some pics. but have tried and the upload keeps failing.
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You can do a lot with 6 t5 bulbs. I would personally find 3 10K bulbs a little too far on the yellow side for my tastes (even with 3 actinics). Perhaps play around with different combinations. The beauty of T5s is that the possible combinations are mind boggling. Actinics generally do not have a lot of par so what you can do to achieve a similar affect is use 22K bulbs instead. They will provide that colour POP that you're looking for while still providing usable par for coral growth. Also consider throwing in one or two 14K bulbs. They are a nice middle ground between the benefits of a 20K/22K bulb and a 10K bulb. Decent PAR with decent colour enhancing effects. Of course we can't forget the fiji purple bulb. I'm personally not a fan of it but a lot of people do like the effect.
The bottom line is you have a lot of options in front of you that you can persue with your T5 fixture to help bring out your colours.