T5 Bulb Combo Suggestions
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It's less recommended due to those liking a more BLUE look to their tanks, and the special gives a more white look. But the lamp itself does not wash color out of the corals. Tis all in the eye of the beholder
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-Logzor
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It's less recommended due to those liking a more BLUE look to their tanks, and the special gives a more white look. But the lamp itself does not wash color out of the corals. Tis all in the eye of the beholder
The bulb has a bad reputation, and is probbaly the source of KLR's color issues, and that's the point I'm trying to get across here. I'm not trying to convince you that it's a problem in YOUR tank. I believe your having a good experience with the bulb, there are plenty of successful tanks without washed out colors that are using it.
Washed out colors is different from having a "blue" tank or a "white" tank.
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creefer
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This is an interesting topic. I find things a bit washed out with the aqua blue special as well. It's not as bad with the Coral + and the look "appears" to be better with that bulb. I have been thinking about a 6500k for a while and may put one in and see how that changes the look of the tank and livestock.
Spaceman Spliff
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I have the same tank with the same problem...the T5's are 3" from the water surface so the whole tank gets blasted with light. I initially wanted alot of light for SPS but then got the chalice bug so its hard to find low light areas. I bet all your acans and most of your chalices are low and to the sides of the tank!
I did some experimenting with bulbs. What I found was I didn't like the colors in the tank without a purple+ and coral+, so that leaves me 4 open slots. I tried 2 blue+ and 2 actinic but there wasn't enough blue. I was happiest with 3 blue+, 1 purple+, 1 actinic and 1 Coral+. I also lowered my lighting period from 10 hours to 8 hours. Adding the 1 actinic and lowering the lighting period did help a little...found 2 or 3 chalices that had to come out from the sides into the front of the tank. I should also mention I installed 2 24" TrueLumen Blue strips which is like adding 2 more Blue+ bulbs and those are being run 12 hours a day. The strips do add some blue to the tank so keep that in mind if you run the same T5 combo as me and don't find its blue enough. My order front to back is Blue, Blue, Purple, Actinic, Blue, Coral.
I did some experimenting with bulbs. What I found was I didn't like the colors in the tank without a purple+ and coral+, so that leaves me 4 open slots. I tried 2 blue+ and 2 actinic but there wasn't enough blue. I was happiest with 3 blue+, 1 purple+, 1 actinic and 1 Coral+. I also lowered my lighting period from 10 hours to 8 hours. Adding the 1 actinic and lowering the lighting period did help a little...found 2 or 3 chalices that had to come out from the sides into the front of the tank. I should also mention I installed 2 24" TrueLumen Blue strips which is like adding 2 more Blue+ bulbs and those are being run 12 hours a day. The strips do add some blue to the tank so keep that in mind if you run the same T5 combo as me and don't find its blue enough. My order front to back is Blue, Blue, Purple, Actinic, Blue, Coral.
OP
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Exactly and you are correct for the most part on my LPS,hahaha! Cool, I think my combo will be similar to yours.
