Tube combination for growth and colouration

[s4m]

As my desire for SPS has increased it quickly became apparent that my cheap LED lighting was inadequate so I have just hung a new ATI 6 x 39w Sunpower over my tank.... The difference is amazing! the light spread from the t5s is great and all my corals look better.

I went for all ATI tubes front to back I have Blue Plus, Purple Plus, coral plus, blue plus, actinic and another blue plus.

Everything looks good just looking for peoples opinions as to whether I need to change anything for growth and colouration?

 

[swk]

All the higher end bulbs will grow coral. I'm current using this combo and have had excellent results.

Gman actinic blue
Blue+
Gman super purple
Gman actinic blue
Gman aquablue azure
Blue+

Personally j would ditch the actinic ati and add another blue plus. Jmo.

 

[s4m]

All the higher end bulbs will grow coral. I'm current using this combo and have had excellent results.

Gman actinic blue
Blue+
Gman super purple
Gman actinic blue
Gman aquablue azure
Blue+

Personally j would ditch the actinic ati and add another blue plus. Jmo.

thanks for replying, why would you swap out the actinic? I do have one spare blue plus that I could swap it for. I se that your running 2 x actinics, do you not like them?

 

[sprite]

The blue plus is way higher in par than the actinic

 

[swk]

thanks for replying, why would you swap out the actinic? I do have one spare blue plus that I could swap it for. I se that your running 2 x actinics, do you not like them?

The geisseman actinic plus is actually comparable to a blue+.

The true actinic does not provide much par. While par is not the end of the world there are other reasons as well. If you dig through the t5 thread, one of the lead scientists for ati told me the blue+ is a much better bulb for coral, providing more par and pur than the actinic can provide and is a better choice for coral reef aquariums.

 

[nemodan]

The geisseman actinic plus is actually comparable to a blue+.

The true actinic does not provide much par. While par is not the end of the world there are other reasons as well. If you dig through the t5 thread, one of the lead scientists for ati told me the blue+ is a much better bulb for coral, providing more par and pur than the actinic can provide and is a better choice for coral reef aquariums.

Can you please paste the link to that T5 thread .

Thank you !!

 

[DiscusHeckel]

Can you please paste the link to that T5 thread .

Thank you !!

I hope this helps (Please look at the post no: 5077 onwards):

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?p=23083016#post23083016

 

[jdraider75]

On a 6 bulb. I like 4 blue plus 1 coral plus 1 purple plus.