Who all is running SE 10k MH with VHO Actinics

[Im Lon 2]

Right now I'm looking at buying new bulbs and would like to see How that looks compared to my 14k and actinic.

I have always like the way my bulbs looked but I have notice that they are starting to look more white as the bulbs age, and I like it too. Heard that 10k brings out the colors in the zoo's more, don't know if that is true or not.

 

[Phyto]

I run SE 10K 175W with NO Actinics. I love the color. You have crisp white light and the added actinic blue spectrum. Your VHO's will obviously add more blue. I don't know about bringing out the zoo colors. I have always used 10K and actinic. I do know I am pleased with the color in my zoos.
I will probably never use anything more than 12K on the halide. I'm not a fan of a blue dominant tank. I think the 10K helps give the corals and zooxanthallae a fuller spectrum from which they can utilize. I know only certain colors make it past the first couple of inches. I also want to see all the different coralline and colored sponges.

 

[DrBDC]

I was using XM 10,000K's SE's with 4X55 pc actinics. Soon to be 2 T5 ho actinics with 15,000K's. I already switched the mh's and it's a huge difference alone. I don't know that I'd trade the par of the 10,000K XM's if they hadn't come out with the new Iwasaki's though. I'd probably just run 4 t5 ho actinics or blues with it instead of 2. I hope the t5 ho's will beat out the 4 pc actinics. I'm sure it will.