Do you need daylight bulbs?

Originally Posted by Skimmer King

With that being said i have used the Cdn tire 6500 bulbs and grow lots of corals with them.

Canadian Tire sales T5HO 6500K bulbs? Or are you referring to T8's?

[CandyCane]

Okay it's a wave point fixture. Whatever the bulbs are called that go in there.
I'm very sure the corals arent expanding to get more light. They have grown new mouths in the last 2 weeks. The small polyps have multiplied 3x and all the sps are splitting.

The fish aren't acting any different than before and their colours appear more vibrant as well.

The 2 bulbs that are left are new ones.

So I'm going to stay away from white light and go with new actinic bulb and another coral growth one.

Thanks for the advise

[Skimmerking]

Originally Posted by Cugio

Canadian Tire sales T5HO 6500K bulbs? Or are you referring to T8's?

Sorry Donny My bad T-8's and T-12's

Gotcha, thanks. I was hoping to find some cheaper alternatives for my planted tank. They manufactured great T8/12 combinations but unfortunately for the T5's, I can only find 3-4000K at the hardware stores.

[Enigma]

Originally Posted by Cugio

Gotcha, thanks. I was hoping to find some cheaper alternatives for my planted tank. They manufactured great T8/12 combinations but unfortunately for the T5's, I can only find 3-4000K at the hardware stores.

I've purchased 5000k t5s from Lee Valley. I've seen the 5000k T5s at Golden Acres. Lee Valley's price is better.

EDIT: The plant growth I've had out of these bulbs is insane! I switched to the T5s for the first time this year. I started my veggie garden at least a month too early.

Awesome, thank you for the tip.