Which of these T5 combinations to pick?

[cvrle1]

Thanks for your help!

It seems that people would either go for choices 3 or 4 (I posted this on few various sites) They are both tied with 8 votes while choices 1 and 2 are tied with 3.

Would anyone be able to post a visual reference of what choice 3 and 4 would look like?

Thanks very much

[Reefer Rob]

Why not just 2 aquablue and 2 actinic plus for a blue look, or 1 aquablue 1 sun and 2 actinic plus for something a little whiter. I run 6 bulbs, 1 GE daylight 2 aquablue and 3 actinic plus. When I setup 8 bulbs over my 180 I will be overdriving them, so I'm going to try 4 aquablue and 4 blue+. I don't think you get much par from the actinic bulbs, so I don't plan to use them unless I have to.

[Pan]

Originally Posted by Reefer Rob

Why not just 2 aquablue and 2 actinic plus for a blue look, or 1 aquablue 1 sun and 2 actinic plus for something a little whiter. I run 6 bulbs, 1 GE daylight 2 aquablue and 3 actinic plus. When I setup 8 bulbs over my 180 I will be overdriving them, so I'm going to try 4 aquablue and 4 blue+. I don't think you get much par from the actinic bulbs, so I don't plan to use them unless I have to.

actinic is mostly for our viewing pleasure is it not?

[Reefer Rob]

Mostly for our viewing pleasure. If you feel you have enough light light from your other bulbs, it won't matter if you use a pure actinic. Most par and best viewing is a aquablue, blue+ combo IMO. Check out this thread for more info. http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...hreadid=918935

[Quinster]

I was running 2 11000K Aquablue Plus and 2 Actinic Plus and found it very "un natural" blue...almost smurf blue, I switched to 3 11000K Aquablue Plus and 1 Actinic Plus and it seems better to look at.
I am contemplating removing 1 11000K Aquablue Plus and replacing it with a Pure Actinic 03 just to see if I like it any more.

[Squiddy]

I've got 3 x Blue+, 2 x Actinic+ and 1 x daylight bulbs in my T5 HO setup and I need to look at somthing different because everything is getting too bleached out. The daylight bulb puts out tons of light and is bleaching all of the coralline under it. When I bought my T5 bulbs, you couldn't get the true actinic bulbs so I would really like to get rid of one or two of the aquablue+ bulbs (very white in colour) and replace with another actinic+ and or true actinic.

I still have yet to see another T5 HO setup in person... doesn't seem to be any other Canreefers on the lower island. I'm going over to J&L & Ocean Aquatics (who both sell T5 bulbs) on the 16th and will pick up some more selection so I can figure out what I like best.

So far... my T5 setup has been bright as hell but is way too white in colour.

[albert_dao]

I hear ATI is coming out with an AWESOME bulb to replace their recently retired 10k (Super White).