Aquapod PC Lighting Upgrades??

[HAMsmith]

I was wondering if there is a way to make the PC lighting on an Aquapod 24 add more fluorescence effect.

I was told by my LFS to change over to one true actinic bulb and one 50/50 bulb.

Think this is true? Would this still give enough light for LPS corals?

If both of those are true which bulbs could be used?

The 50/50 seems easy, the true actinic doesn't seem to be made by Current-USA.

These are made by Current-USA for the AP24:

32 watt Dual Actinic 420/460nm (I'm assuming this is the stock actinic)

32 watt Dual Daylight 6,700k/10,000k (I'm assuming this is the stock daylight)

32 watt SmartPaq 10,000k Daylight/460nm Actinic (The 50/50 ugprade?)

Looking for the true actinic this is the best I could find, found on Hellolights:

Actinic 03

Thanks in advance,

Martin

 

[kass03]

IMO the current dual actinic flouresces enough. Its just a half blue bulb 460nm and half true actinic 03 420nm which is purple.
I don't think you should go with a 50/50 smartpaq and an all actinic though (if you could find an all actinic).
That's a 3 to 1 ratio of actinic and only a half of bulb of white light which the corals need to grow. I also think it would look too dim.

All of those bulbs you mentioned are actually 50/50's but I think your LFS meant half 10,000k and half actinic as thats what a 50/50 bulb usually is.

I have the 12 gal aquapod and wish they made an all 10,000k bulb instead of that dual white cuz 6700k is more yellow.
Mine are 27 watt and they only come in the 2 stock dual colors.
I'm not sure if other sizes/watts would fit.
Whatever you do make sure they're square pin bulbs.

You could go with 2 50/50 sunpaq's and have enough light and it would be a little more purple but then you can't do the dawn/dusk effect with timers and just actinic in morning and night.

kass

 

[HAMsmith]

Thanks for the reply. I think I should have clarified my question and now that I've done some more research maybe I can.

The Aquapod 24 stock lighting are these 50/50 bulbs:

32 watt Dual Actinic 420/460nm

32 watt Dual Daylight 6,700k/10,000k

To increase the amount of fluorescence I would like to switch to this:

32 watt SmartPaq 10,000k Daylight/460nm Actinic

32 watt Actinic 03

As my corals are all photosynthetic I would think that this much blue would be healthy for their growth and the fish won't care.

So at this point I'm wondering will it be too much blue for human viewing and will it really add fluoresence?

Other options would be getting away from the 50/50s and having a straight 10k bulb and a straight Actinic 03 bulb....or buying the DIY mod kit from nanocustoms which jacks the watts up to 108 and uses a 3 bulb system....

 

[july865]

i think it maybe too blue.....IMHO