The Grim Reefer
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if you were to buy a true actinic t5 tube, peaking at 420 nm, which brand would you buy?
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if you were to buy a true actinic t5 tube, peaking at 420 nm, which brand would you buy?
You should be able to get 10 to 14 months out of those lamps. I've seen more stuff get blamed for hair algae....... All things being equal it will grow better under infrared light which old lamps produce more of but I would check the water parameters. I'd be shocked if the elite doesn't cool the lamp well enough they would be dead this soon. You could always throw in a new blue plus and compare it to the others you have. After about an hour you shouldn't notice a huge difference between a new and old lamp.
Thank you sir.
Have you carried out any experiment or do you know of any study on the speed with which different brands of T5 tubes lose their PAR output? In particular, I am interested in comparing ATI Blue plus with Narva Blues (or Giesemann T5 tubes).
A lot of people in the UK are switching to Narva blues away from ATI Blue plus on the grounds that the former is cheaper.
Thanks
ok, i've been trying to verify this but short of sifting through this entire epic thread to find it , i'll just ask.
Does an icecap 660 overdrive 80w t5 bulbs when running a pair on that ballast? and if so what does it overdrive them to?
I've got a Dimmable sunpower 8x54 on a new tank... no corals yet - just a CUC and 1 fish and was wondering if I could get suggestions on a lighting schedule. Since the entire unit is dimmable do I need to worry about channel 1 and 2, or would it be okay to just have all 8 bulbs come on at 10am and ramp up to 90%(or whatever I decide is the brightest I want) around 4pm and then back down to off at like 8pm??
I looked this bulb up and found out it is obsolute? Could the low price because suppliers are tryong to get rid of there stock?
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ok, i've been trying to verify this but short of sifting through this entire epic thread to find it , i'll just ask.
Does an icecap 660 overdrive 80w t5 bulbs when running a pair on that ballast? and if so what does it overdrive them to?
According to Ice Cap it was around 100 watts. I had excellent luck overdriving 80 watt lamps but wouldn't do so with the shorter lamps.
I'm assuming then that your setting up the dimmable light to run on a controler that will vary the light automaticly?
As would still run 2 channels seperatly. If this is a 6 or more bulb fixture I put two (blue based) bulbs on the dawn to dusk cycle) and the rest on the mid day cycle.
For timing you want to adjust them to your life style so they will turn off generaly at your normal bed time.
A good starting point is what I call hour 0 when the Dawn to dusk lights turn on.
so
00:00 Dawn to dusk turn on
01:30 Mid Day bulbs turn on
09:30 Mid day lights turn off
11:00 Dawn to dusk turn off <your normal bed time>
Note this is a starting point. From here watch how your tank is doing and then you can fine tune the system but remember the ideal is 8 hours of full light and minimium of 8 hours of near darkness.
Note this is a starting point. From here watch how your tank is doing and then you can fine tune the system but remember the ideal is 8 hours of full light and minimium of 8 hours of near darkness.
Probably an easy question....for a 4 x 54 TEK setup, I plan on having three ATI Blue Plus but not sure about the fourth. Should I go with ATI Aquablue special or Geissman midday? Tanks is mostly LPS with a few easier SPS pieces and am looking for the bulb that would give better growth. Thanks!
i dont know if im posting in the wrong place but my eyes hurt now from reading and staring at lights. my ati bulbs came today from reefgeek. the purple plus and aqua blue special and one of the blue plus are working fine. the other blue plus turns off after its on for a while. ive moved it to every other slot and gotten the same result. is this a bad bulb?
Hi again,
I am about to order my ATI bulbs for my 6 X 39W ATI Sunpower unit. I was going to order the following combination:
Front
ATI Blue Plus
ATI Purple Plus
ATI Blue Plus
Sylvania 6500K (I can't get GE 6500K in 39W in the UK)
ATI Blue Plus
ATI Blue Plus
The I read about Coral Plus tubes. How would this combination look compared to the one abobe:
ATI Blue Plus
ATI Purple Plus
ATI Coral Plus (instead of ATI Blue plus)
Sylvania 6500K
ATI Blue Plus
ATI Blue Plus
Thank you.