T5 lighting & purples acro keeping

[wickedfrags]

purple moster yes, but I also had a wicked purple slimer for quite some time that turned out real nice and a solid purple (bought it brown, and slimey). Purple tips do not count

I hear the pink T5's bring out purples, red and blues...

Originally Posted by reefermadness

Hmmm let me guess......purple monster and kevins tricolor?

I find sometimes purple SPS light less light to get that dark colour....you can try that.

[spawn]

Here are some pics of the suspects
This 1 I got about a month ago from a friend who has High No3 but had 1 250w 14k Halide over it, it was way darker

The 2 right in front of the Monti, 1 is a purple milli, the other a purple Acro w/Green polyps, both used to be much darker/richer purple

& finally this 1 was darker & richer as well.

I just switched lights about 4 months ago to a tek 6 bulb fixture & now I'm thinking of going to a T5 halide combo. I'd prefer to stay as is but wonder if it's possible to influence the pigment with just T5 & some kind of supplement, food or mineral?
Also I just got this deep water frag from another canreefer last night & would like to keep it's color. It's color is a bit darker than the others but gives you an idea of where they started. Purple is really the only color I'm having an issue keeping. It's the 1 to the lower left.

[spawn]

Also my tank is only 36" so I'm wondering if there is a ATI 8-10 bulb in this length, but preferably a 2 X 250 halide with supplemental T5 on either side F & B for color. Thanks.

[xtreme]

Yep, both 8 and 10 lamp fixtures are available.

http://www.reefgeek.com/lighting/T5_...dule_Fixtures/

[reefermadness]

Nice reef....Im going to suggest raising the light or lower those corals....or even feeding more.

Somethings to try anyway. I don't think its a co-incidence that you just switched lights 4 months ago either.

[spawn]

Originally Posted by reefermadness

Nice reef....Im going to suggest raising the light or lower those corals....or even feeding more.

Somethings to try anyway. I don't think its a co-incidence that you just switched lights 4 months ago either.

I don't think it's the light or the height of it because the original light was even closer to the surface. The Tek does have better reflectors so it's probably delivering better par, but the corals in the pics haven't really changed at all either way since the lighting was changed. I use a fair bit of zeo products for both feeding & supplementation, & like i said purple is really the only one I'm not happy with. Also I feed some phyto & zoo plankton, they're the Kent products, so I'm certainly open to suggestion as to what more to feed. I've read that people have had positive results using iron for purple. but have not tried it yet. Others I've talked to don't do anything but they have halide's & realy great looking purple coral's.

[spawn]

Originally Posted by xtreme

Yep, both 8 and 10 lamp fixtures are available.

http://www.reefgeek.com/lighting/T5_...dule_Fixtures/

Thanks Man, I looked briefly the other night, but obviously not very hard. & ouch looking at those price's tells me that halide is probably the better option if I can find a good combo.