Grim,
I know that Sanjay is doing a T5 workup but you should post something , or make a website maybe listing your PAR value findings of different bulbs / ballasts.
Even a list of PAR values for different bulbs / fixtures would be a huge help and better help for people picking bulbs.
I honestly don't get the "Hey Grim, what bulbs should I use..." posts.
Perhaps your taste in color isn't my taste in color. Maybe I like my tank more or less blue than you do. When people choose MH bulbs it's usually due to PAR, then by color, but when they choose T5 bulbs it's based on "Hey what bulb combo would you use" then if they don't like the color they blame T5s, not their bulb combo and you get posts like
"T5s suck, all my colors were washed out, MH gives better colors"
When you ask what bulbs they used, they tell you that they used mostly blue bulbs, well DUH! Of course everything looked washed out!
I think it also has a lot to do with coral placement. Just because Grim says use your GE 6500 bulb in third position, if your red and yellow corals are mostly under the 6th bulb than THAT is where your GE bulb should go.
I guess most people use 4 or 6 bulb fixtures so it doesn't matter so much on bulb placement but order extra bulbs people. Play around with them till you get a color combo that works for the corals that you keep.
Just my 2 cents.
I know that Sanjay is doing a T5 workup but you should post something , or make a website maybe listing your PAR value findings of different bulbs / ballasts.
Even a list of PAR values for different bulbs / fixtures would be a huge help and better help for people picking bulbs.
I honestly don't get the "Hey Grim, what bulbs should I use..." posts.
Perhaps your taste in color isn't my taste in color. Maybe I like my tank more or less blue than you do. When people choose MH bulbs it's usually due to PAR, then by color, but when they choose T5 bulbs it's based on "Hey what bulb combo would you use" then if they don't like the color they blame T5s, not their bulb combo and you get posts like
"T5s suck, all my colors were washed out, MH gives better colors"
When you ask what bulbs they used, they tell you that they used mostly blue bulbs, well DUH! Of course everything looked washed out!
I think it also has a lot to do with coral placement. Just because Grim says use your GE 6500 bulb in third position, if your red and yellow corals are mostly under the 6th bulb than THAT is where your GE bulb should go.
I guess most people use 4 or 6 bulb fixtures so it doesn't matter so much on bulb placement but order extra bulbs people. Play around with them till you get a color combo that works for the corals that you keep.
Just my 2 cents.
