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T5 bulb choice help
I am switching my lights to t5, it will a four bulb fixture. I want a bulb combination that will good growth and colour ( more important), I plan on kepping softies and lps, and maybe 1 or 2 sps.
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I'd recommend 2 ATI Blue Plus, 1 Aquablue Special, and 1 KZ fiji purple.
If you don't have access to ATI bulbs, 2 Aquascience 22K and 1 Aquascience 15K would work in place of the ATI bulbs. I haven't used the new superblues from KZ yet, but you could go with all KZ bulbs too by using 2 KZ 14K new gen coral lights, 1 KZ fiji purple, and 1 KZ superblue. All these bulb combos should result in a ~14 K colour temp which should give your tank and corals a nice colour with a decent amount of PAR.
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+1 Oceanic has all the bulbs you need.
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ati or aqua science is the way to go but with only four bulbs i would be very careful especially with soft corals going with to much of just blue light like the blue plus or the 22,000k.
In a 4 bulb set up i would go with the following ati blue plus or aqua science 22,000k x 2 ati aqua blue or aqua science 15,000k x1 ulv actinic white or aqua science 17,500k x 1 tons of PAR realistic color and growth. A tank with to much blue doesnt allow the corals to expand fully or look realistic. |
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I would go with three Korraline Zuct bulbs and one geisemann
something like this front to back, KZ 10, 000 k KZ fiji Purple KZ koralight Geismann Actinic + I've seen all of these bulbs in action, and there is no bulb better than the KZ's You can get 'em from J+L, relatively inexpensive too. :-) Good luck!
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Bump for any agreements with the posts of any new suggestions
+ advice on where to get bulbs
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I would get them at J+L, Or Oceanic Corals. If you haven't been there yet, then go to oceanic, they have lots of frags. Including all of mine, and they tend to beat J+L's prices on SOME things, worth a shot anyways! good luck!!
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I was talking with Kevin from Red Coral in Calgary the other day, for my tank (96"L x 22"W x 18"D) with 2 - 48" 4 bulb fixture's per side and primarily LPS & Softies he suggested the following per side:
2 - ATI Aqua Blue Special 2 - 10,000K (KZ or Geisman) 2 - 15,000K (KZ or Geisman) 2 - Fiji Purple
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