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Re: [GSAS-Member] Speaking of lights... anyone using T5 HO fixtures?



I like the all-daylight-bulb setup. 10KK seems a little reefy to my taste, and it always seems weird to have one tube a different color than the other. Our frog tank is like that (one daylight from the hardware store and a pink light from Zoo Med), and the pictures always come out weird, with the front half the tank too pink and the back half too blue.

  - Erik

On Sun, 20 Dec 2009, Matt Staroscik wrote:

Erik, have you been happy with the 6000K/6500K bulbs you are using? If I do
get a new fixture, I have the opportunity to choose any bulbs I like. The
options that I see people implementing are--

1. All 6700K, which is all I have ever used.
2. 6700K and 10,000K (adds blue tint)
3. 6700k and "pink" plant bulbs (adds red tint)
4. 10000K and pink

It seems like they are all about the same as far as growth goes, it's just
the look that changes.

Anyone use a combo and like it?

Roy, you're right, it's 2 circuits in the Catalina fixture. Running all the
lights only for a mid-day shot is an interesting idea that I had not thought
of.

I'm really starting over on plants, after a couple of years of keeping
plant-munching fish...  Got a lot of reading to do! I've forgotten what
little I already knew about ferts for example.

MS


On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:

Just to add my own experience to the debate, I LOVE T5HO's.  I have two
different tanks set up with them in a DIY equivalent to the AH Supply kits
from reefgeek.com.  I did a lame little journal a few years back on the
first one:

http://mystery.thekrib.com/T5/

I tacked on an entry with a new shot of the setup today.

 - Erik

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