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09-09-2010, 09:31 PM
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That's right I find the lights too bright as is, with a lack of color, or color that is washed out. So I'm thinkin keep the two Gsmn. actinic bulbs and add 2 @ 22k, and your suggesting 14k bulbs for the remaining 2 ? Most of my corals are sps, is that gonna be enough,to maintain good growth? I don't know much about the lighting yet. Here's the rest of the water par.
sal 1.026 ph 8.4 kh 9 ca 425 mg 1350 no3 0 
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09-09-2010, 10:04 PM
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A combination that I like and what I currently run on one of my tanks is.. 14K 22K (dusk and dawn) 10K 14K 22K (dusk and dawn) 14K I'm actually not a fan of actinic bulbs as I mentioned before, they have pretty low PAR value. You can achieve a similar effect with the 22Ks while gaining PAR. Bulb selection is such a personal choice though. What works for me might not work for you, and vice versa. Last edited by kien; 09-09-2010 at 10:07 PM.
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09-09-2010, 11:23 PM
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Oh, one other thing I wanted to mention (I've been wanting to put this out there for a while and it seems relevant to you)... You can guess which bulbs are going to make your colours really stand out if you do a little reading on your livestock.
Advanced Aquarist is particulary good for it but you can find info on all y'er critters and find out what the primary pigments are and at what wavelengths they flouresce. A lot of people go heavy on the actinic/blues but you'd be surprised what a pink bulb, for instance, can do. It all depends on what you have in there. Try matching the spectrum of the lights (available on the manufacturers website) to your livestock and you will be surprised. Nerdy? Yes. Excessive? Probably. Save you money from having to try out a bunch of different bulbs? Likely. I did this when shopping for a new halide and it worked well. I then tried it with my moonlights and swapped the stock led's for a different blue that would make my corals flouresce more at night. And flouresce they do!
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