Another T5 lighting question - Nova bulbs

[moose8721]

I've read all the posts about the Nova fixture that I could find....here's my question. I ordered the Nova 4x39 T5 which comes with two 10k bulbs and 2 460nm bulbs. Would it make sense to replace two of those bulbs with a 6500k bulb and a 420nm bulb?

Anyone have this fixture and can comment on how the color looks with the bulbs it comes with? Thanks!!

 

[moose8721]

bump

 

[moose8721]

No bites? Thanks anyways....

 

[wahshk]

I've got the 8 bulb unit that gives great cool color. I guess 6500K are too yellow and will cause more algae. IMHO.

 

[Horace]

Algae is caused by nutrients, not the light you use. No nutrients = No algae, its that simple.

Also I really hope your not expecting the performance out of that Nova as people are reporting about T5s....The Nova is little better than a typical PC fixture.

 

[moose8721]

Not really Horace. I'm probably more interested in the longer bulb life combined with relatively cheaper bulbs. I expect a little bump in light, but don't want to shock the tank inhabitants and don't really want to have to deal with rearranging everything in the tank.

Nor do I plan on trying to grow all kinds of high light coral right now. Sounds like if I want that in the future, I could get some of that by changing to single reflectors. But I'd probably go to a larger tank before making that kind of change.