Lighting comparasons

[StirCrazy]

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