Question about lighting

djulian645 · Feb 22, 2016

I have a 55 gal tank w 15 gal sump that I slowly started adding corals in. Right now for lighting I am using aquatic life edge LED's. I currently have one zoa colony, green star polyp colony and a hammer coral. I have been told this isn't sufficient lighting to keep corals healthy and vibrant so I was wondering can I also run a T5 HO dual fixture with whites/blues in addition to my edge led's? Not sure if it's a problem running two different types of lighting. Any help would be great. Thanks

Duke4Life · Feb 22, 2016

djulian645 said:
I have a 55 gal tank w 15 gal sump that I slowly started adding corals in. Right now for lighting I am using aquatic life edge LED's. I currently have one zoa colony, green star polyp colony and a hammer coral. I have been told this isn't sufficient lighting to keep corals healthy and vibrant so I was wondering can I also run a T5 HO dual fixture with whites/blues in addition to my edge led's? Not sure if it's a problem running two different types of lighting. Any help would be great. Thanks

A lot of people do and have no problems mixing.

saltyfilmfolks · Feb 22, 2016

It's excellent. You'll love it. So will the corals. I have it on my tank.

djulian645 · Feb 22, 2016

saltyfilmfolks said:
It's excellent. You'll love it. So will the corals. I have it on my tank.

Awesome! Thank you so much for the feedback. The LEDs alone don't provide that colorful pop im looking for in my corals. Do you run just a white and blue on the T5?

saltyfilmfolks · Feb 22, 2016

djulian645 said:
Awesome! Thank you so much for the feedback. The LEDs alone don't provide that colorful pop im looking for in my corals. Do you run just a white and blue on the T5?

yes. a white and an ATI super blue is what I have in now.
surprised by the no pop on the led. does it have a white blue channel? the blue should be pop only. or is the white overwhelming the blue? My current led is similar in that.