Lighting choices..

[johnnybravo234]

Im putting a 55g prop/growout/holding tank together and I have an old pc fixture that im going to use. I have a choice between 10000k/6500k dual daylight bulbs and 50/50 10000k/actinc bulbs. Im not very concerned about appearance, I just want to choose the bulb that will have the best effect on the lps and soft corals that will be in there.

 

[ReefDoctorMicromussas]

I like high kelvin temps

 

[stevedola]

6500k bulbs will help growth but dang it looks nasty. Also, if you spot feed and make sure they get food then youd be better off 10-14k maybe even 20k. I would worry about the colors of the corals, they might misrepresent them selves under 6500k. Also, taking great pictures is a huge sales boost in coral farming...might want to think about people looking at yellowish ugly frags rather than electric poppin frags under higher kelvin lights. I personally like the look of 14k and I still get moderate growth with my AB's. Like I said before, since they are LPS corals, feed feed feed if you want more growth.

 

[stevedola]

ps- with my 14k i have 2- vho 39w superblue actinics