Replacing MH and T5 bulbs, suggestions?

[Rarend99]

Replacing all the bulbs in my aquaticlife 48in fixture, it's two 150w hqi and 4 T5HOS, I'm going to use pheonix 14k for the halides, but am kind of confused at what I should use for the T5s, should I just use 4 Actnic bulbs?

 

[Michigan Mike]

4 ATI blue plus 1 purple plus.

 

[Rarend99]

Well it's only a 4 T5 bulb fixture so 3 blue plus + 1 purple?

 

[Rarend99]

Well it's only a 4 T5 bulb fixture so 3 blue plus + 1 purple?

 

[aries426]

It also depends on what you are looking for. I have a 4 bulb fixture and I orginally had it with 2 AquaBlue's, Purple Plus and a Blue Plus. I changed it by replacing 1 AquaBlue with a Atinic. The Purple Plus is not bright, but it is good to have as much of the spectrum as you can, but as I said it all depends on what you want it for and for what corals.

 

[Rarend99]

I want to be able to keep as much variety as I can, I'm talking soft and hard corals, the more variety I can have, the better.

 

[longdangler]

Well it's only a 4 T5 bulb fixture so 3 blue plus + 1 purple?

IMO this is what I would go with