Can I use just actinic light or no?

[Andrew Beattie]

Hi there, another question for me as a beginner to saltwater. I currently have a coral life aqualight H-O T-5 dual lamp on my tank. Unfortunately this lamp doesn't have the option of using either the 10,000k bulb or the actinic bulb it just uses both of them at the same time. I was wondering can I replace the 10,000k bulb and just use another actinic bulb instead, the only reason I ask is because the tank is in my bedroom and I don't like having the bright white light on when I'm trying to sleep, the actinic blue bulb is fine to sleep with just not the white 10k. So I'm wondering if I can just use the lamp and do 2 actinic bulbs and use that both during the day and at night or do I need to buy another light fixture to use during the day and use the one I have now for at night with 2 actinic bulbs instead of the 10k bulb. Any help you all can provide would be great. Thanks!

 

[dragon99]

Look at the ATI Blue+ bulb. It has a better spectrum for coral growth than pure actinic bulbs.

You may also consider a combo of Blue+ and Coral+. That wouldn't be quite as white as the 10K bulb.

 

[melypr1985]

You wouldn't want to keep the lights on all day and all night anyway. Why not just put your lights on a timer and have them come on and go off automatically?

 

[ciscomania]

You wouldn't want to keep the lights on all day and all night anyway. Why not just put your lights on a timer and have them come on and go off automatically?

+1 this

 

[paulojbsilva]

You wouldn't want to keep the lights on all day and all night anyway. Why not just put your lights on a timer and have them come on and go off automatically?

+1 on this!

 

[rosshamsandwich]

Jason Fox uses only Actinic bulbs..

 

[Cherub]

Just warn people thats what you do before selling and trading frags. And why am I replying to such an old butt post??

 

[Sarah24!]

Lol because you didn’t notice the date like me as well probably.

 

[DSC reef]

Jason Fox uses only Actinic bulbs..

Actinic and actinic blue are different. Actinic blue is like a blue plus.

 

[rosshamsandwich]

jason fox uses actinic blue or blue plus??? not actinic?

 

[dragon99]

When I heard him speak, he said "blue actinic". I took that to mean the Giesemann Actinic Blue bulbs which are similar to ATI Blue+.

Here's the whole session where he spoke about it.

 

[rosshamsandwich]

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Lol because you didn’t notice the date like me as well probably.

you just got snusnu'd

 

[rosshamsandwich]

Just warn people thats what you do before selling and trading frags. And why am I replying to such an old *** post??

you just got snu snu'd