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View Poll Results: What lights are you currently using for your main display (not including moon lights)
Incandescent 0 0%
T6 Fluorescent 0 0%
T5s only 20 14.71%
LEDs only 75 55.15%
Halides only 5 3.68%
Halides and T5s combo 7 5.15%
Halides and LED combo 5 3.68%
LEDs and T5s combo 20 14.71%
Other 1 0.74%
I don't have a tank you insensitive sod. 2 1.47%
Halides and LEDs and T5s oh my ! 1 0.74%
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Old 12-05-2015, 04:44 PM
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What's T6? There's T8 and T12 but never heard of a T6. There's also no option for halide+t5+led. Seems like lots of options for other.
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Old 12-05-2015, 05:06 PM
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T5 for me.

Currently running
6 blue +
1 actinic
1 purple plus

Would like to here what other t5 combos people have
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Old 12-05-2015, 05:28 PM
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T5 for me.

Currently running
6 blue +
1 actinic
1 purple plus

Would like to here what other t5 combos people have
All ATI:
Blue+
Blue+
Coral+
Aquablue Special
Blue+
Blue+
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Currently LED + T5 for me, but hopefully within a week or two it will be "LED, T5 and Halide" (which wasn't a listed option, I guess "other"? ). I'm going to shoehorn 2 Radiums back over my tank, because honestly after going away from Radiums, the tank was just never the same for me. So I'll keep the LEDs for the primary I think, T5's flanking for supplementation, and then the two Radiums will pile drive some additional intensity for mid-day. Will see how it goes, I have to modify my light rack to accomodate all the gear.
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I seriously didn't know that using all three light technologies at once was a thing Shows you how behind the times I am.
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All T5's
Pure actinic
Pure actinic
Super blue
Fiji purple
New gen
Super blue
Pure actinic
Pure actinic
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All T5's
Pure actinic
Pure actinic
Super blue
Fiji purple
New gen
Super blue
Pure actinic
Pure actinic
Someone likes the blue lights
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T5/LED hybrid
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T5 HOs here

ATI and happy

I re-wired my fixture to control all 4 ballasts

1 and 8 Blue Plus
2 and 7 Coral Plus
3 and 6 Aquablue Special
4 and 5 Aquablue Special and Coral Plus

So I run 2 Blue Plus, 3 Coral Plus and 3 Aquablue Special

Your mileage will vary
And you will probably notice I don't use any actinic bulbs

Don't fixate on lights !!!

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There's also no option for halide+t5+led. Seems like lots of options for other.
That combo probably falls under other :-)

And that's why there is an "other" option because there can be so many "other" options ? :-)

The Google will tell you al about T6 which really should have fallen under "other" as well but I recently found some tanks using them.
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