T5 bulb suggestions?

[Jberge]

I recently started moving my first corals from the qt into my dt. It's all lps in there now, frogspawn, torch, duncan and 2 candy canes. The others in the qt are all lps also except for 1 sps. I'm pretty sure my display will be lps dominate. I have a 4x54w t5 fixture running 3 standard actinics and 1 10'000k. I know there's a lot of better bulbs out there but don't know what to use. I was wondering what kind of combos you guys are using.

 

[The Reef Dork]

Check out this 2 part video guide on how to choose bulbs.

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[Jberge]

That was informative but still leaves me at a loss as to what to choose. Anyone out there using T5's I'd like to hear first hand what combos you like. Thanks

 

[zsuzsu]

3 blue plus , 1 coral plus, for a 4 bulb fixture

 

[reefwiser]

Blue+ and Coral+ are always good choices.

 

[solitude127]

I'd buy 5 bulbs. 3 Blue +, 1 Coral + and 1 Purple +. Start with 3 B+ and 1P+ and see if you like the color. If not to your liking, then swap out the P+ with the C+. But either way, you definitely want 3B+ and 1 other colored bulb.

 

[Jberge]

Awesome! Thank you for the feedback!