T-5 Actinic recommendation

[fazgood]

I have an outer orbit fixture with (2) 250W 14000K Phoenix DE bulbs. It currently has (2) 54W 10,000K and (2) 54W 460nm T-5's. I just replaced the MH but I am looking to replace the T-5's next. I am keeping softies now and plan to keep it that way for a while and have lots of shrooms, zoa's, rics, Xenia (yea, I know), GSP (Yea, I know again). Also have a clam and fish.

Any recommendations to make the colors pop and glow yes still make it easy on the eyes?

When I bought the fixture the 420 nm were fried so I replaced them for the summer with 10,000Ks so I could have good visible light to reduce MH time to keep the A/C from running all day. With cooler weather coming, I think it will someday, I can run the MH longer and use the T-5s to bring out the colors.

I picked up a softie leather something from Stlouisguy a few weeks back and it about burnt your eyes in his frag tank. It looks nice in mine but doesn’t have that iridescent glow.

Thanks,

Faz

 

[latazyo]

I had 3 x geismann true actinics in my last setup and I liked them

 

[DrBDC]

I've used pc, t5, and vho actinics. IMO the t5's had the smallest actinic effect of all of them. And the vho actinics were way ahead of all of them.