ATI bulb recommendation for 6 bulb

[evan127]

Would 4 Coral Plus bulbs with 2 actinic bulbs be too too much light? I am running 4 Blue Plus, 1 Coral Plus and 1 Purple Plus. I run those 4 bulbs for 4 hours a day. The 2 Blue Plus I use for 8 hours total. Too much PAR?

 

[Diesel]

What kind of corals will you be holding?

 

[evan127]

Should have specified that haha. All SPS

 

[Diesel]

Front to Back…………

Tropic

Super Actinic

Super Purple

Actinic Blue

Aqua Blue

Super Actinic

You be better off to get a 8 bulb fixture, SPS will love you for it.

 

[evan127]

Already have the 6 bulb fixture. I might slowly add more coral plus over time

 

[KingBlingTX]

Here's what I have in my 6 bulb ATI fixture over my 40g SPS frag tank- 3x ATI Blue Plus, 2x ATI Aquablue Special, 1x ATI Coral Plus
My corals seem to be happy with the mix. It might be a little "whiter" than some people run these days, but personally I don't care for the 20K blue look.

 

[evan127]

I like white, day light, shallow natural looking tanks. I figure that with the Coral Plus during the main photoperiod I can get that look. And with the actinics for sunrise/sunset I would get that nice blue.

 

[jedimasterben]

I would mix one or two Purple Plus lamps instead of all Coral Plus, and then two Blue Plus, not Actinics. Having twice as many white/purple lamps as blue will still lead to a strong white with a touch of blue

 

[Highgrade]

On one of my SPS tanks 48x24x24 I run ATI 6 bulb with 2 Kessil A160WE. Kessil's ramp up to 80% intensity and 10% color by 1pm and back down. So manly on the blue side. 8am-8pm
The ATI runs the following from front to back. The Purple+ and Actinic run from 8:30am-6:30pm The rest of the bulbs run from 11am-6pm
Blue +
Purple +
Coral +
Actinic
Blue+
Blue+