T5 lighting & purples acro keeping

[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.