Bulb Choice for my BioCube 14

[BAllen]

So I'm debating between getting a 10K Daylight and an actinic blue bulb or getting two combos (10K daylight/Actinic Blue).

Is there a downside to the combos? I'm thinking the combos will give me better dispersion of spectrums throughout the tank.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

 

[Tucson Reef]

Not the answer you want, but its like guns and holsters. You will eventualy wind up with a drawer full of holsters till you get the perfect one.

One will give you color and slow growth other growth and bland color and so on. In your case I have had both and still have no preference. Never did a Par, but as you said the combo sounds better. Never realy liked CF's but with that tank you have no choice.

 

[fishaholic911]

The only problem I see with combos is you can not individually control the 10k's from the actinics ( Dusk to Dawn ).

 

[megability]

My 2cents - I have a BioCube29 and thought the same thing and switched. Maybe I got bad 50/50 bulbs but my tank didn't look the same, worse growth, and increased algae, so I swtched back. Someone told me the 10,000s in a 50/50 are not truly 10,000...

PS, I am in Tucson too, but have been mainly active on another site, I won't mention them here I guess, but I have a pretty long build thread with tons of pictures if you are interested. Maybe I can re-build that here too eventually...

 

[BAllen]

Thanks for all the input. I went with one actinic and one daylight. Those nanotuners bulbs are so much betetr than the stock ones and I didn;t even get the UVLs.