Best 4 bulb T5 combo for SPS

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Tropic. Purple +. Blue+. Aquablue
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[Acroporaguy]

I think I may just try and run 3 b+ and 1 c+. If I notice any drops in alk consumption I'll switch back to a 50/50 mix of b+ and c+.

 

[spsick]

You have the winning combo, stick with it is my recommendation as well for a 4 bulb fixture.

 

[Lukey2018]

I run a blue plus, coral plus, purple plus, and super actinic over my 30 gallon deep blue rimless frag tank in a ATI dimmable 4 bulb fixture. I keep bubble tips and clams in the tank. There's also a ORA bird of paradise in the tank and other SPS frags. All are doing great. The light is only covering the front 2/3 of the tank. I have mangroves growing in the back 1/3.

That sounds like a nice combo! Do you have a photo? I'd love to see what things look like in that lighting.

 

[Stephen]

That sounds like a nice combo! Do you have a photo? I'd love to see what things look like in that lighting.

This is with a 15k filter

 

[Rjmul]

I run six coral plus.

Wow. Ballsy. Got a picture ?

 

[JMetaxas]

I plan on setting up another 80 gal frag tank and it will be lit by T5’s only. 6 48” bulbs over the 16” deep tank.

My color combination will be 5 B+ and 1 Coral +

 

[Rmckoy]

I run 8 bulb 48”
4 c+ and 4 b+

 

[Midrats]

Wow. Ballsy. Got a picture ?

That's ancient history man! I suffer from a severe case of unused bulb syndrome. I'm running an eight bulb now with 3 B+ 3 C+ and 2 O3. I tried looking through old pictures to find a six C+ pic, I can't tell which is which lol, sorry. I am considering actually upping the white bulbs again. To me the C+ looks great by itself, nice and warm, with excellent color rendition. As soon as you start throwing in B+ I like the look less, but I'm conditioned into thinking the B+ is mandatory. I'll snap a pic of whatever the combo of the week is this time and post it. I'm thinking 6 C+ and 2 O3.

 

[Rjmul]

That's ancient history man! I suffer from a severe case of unused bulb syndrome. I'm running an eight bulb now with 3 B+ 3 C+ and 2 O3. I tried looking through old pictures to find a six C+ pic, I can't tell which is which lol, sorry. I am considering actually upping the white bulbs again. To me the C+ looks great by itself, nice and warm, with excellent color rendition. As soon as you start throwing in B+ I like the look less, but I'm conditioned into thinking the B+ is mandatory. I'll snap a pic of whatever the combo of the week is this time and post it. I'm thinking 6 C+ and 2 O3.

I'm running 2 blue plus 1 coral plus and an actinic on my 75 and 2coral 2blue on my frag. Don't sleep on actinic.... I'm a coral plus guy but I just put it in last night and it's NICE