I am about to replace my 4 bulbs in my t5 led hybrid. The par is low for t5 (180-200ish) and I think I want to increase the white light amount due to my ability to run way more blue Spectrum via the leds in my Geiseman aurora hybrid fixture.
My leds have four diode clusters over the 60” fixture. Clusters are each composed of 4 blue (410-430 nm), 4 (430-480nm), 1 (390-400nm) and 1 (465nm).
The white channel is composed of 1 green (490-560nm) one red (630-790nm) and 8 white that includes a mixture of red/orange/yellow/green.
As for t5, right now I have a kz super purple, kz new generation, kz super blue and ati true actinic.
I have grown sps well in this tank, albeit slowly and I am looking to increase growth and colors. I have done a lot of reading on the board but it’s mostly advice w t5 only and 6-8 bulb setups.
I am not a fan of blue tanks and I enjoy accurate color rendering of the fish via more white spectrum. I see some high success from someone using 1:1 blue plus and coral plus, but that was without LED supplement.
I am realizing (via par meter) I am going to need to up the LED intensity to 80-90% to really get the PAR up. So that means I am going to have a lot of Blue from the LED which the white LED won’t overcome in the setting of highly blue t5s. I am ok w the tank looking more blue for a period during the day if it really helps the corals during the intense lighting period necessary.
I can always tone led intensity way down for beginning and end of day. I also have dimmable t5 capability and would prefer to have some t5 on for better coverage during the evening viewing periods.
I am looking for suggestions here for my bulbs. Do i really need the actinic or should I forgo it since only 4 bulbs? Also, should consider two 6500 tropics bulbs?
Help me out please!
My leds have four diode clusters over the 60” fixture. Clusters are each composed of 4 blue (410-430 nm), 4 (430-480nm), 1 (390-400nm) and 1 (465nm).
The white channel is composed of 1 green (490-560nm) one red (630-790nm) and 8 white that includes a mixture of red/orange/yellow/green.
As for t5, right now I have a kz super purple, kz new generation, kz super blue and ati true actinic.
I have grown sps well in this tank, albeit slowly and I am looking to increase growth and colors. I have done a lot of reading on the board but it’s mostly advice w t5 only and 6-8 bulb setups.
I am not a fan of blue tanks and I enjoy accurate color rendering of the fish via more white spectrum. I see some high success from someone using 1:1 blue plus and coral plus, but that was without LED supplement.
I am realizing (via par meter) I am going to need to up the LED intensity to 80-90% to really get the PAR up. So that means I am going to have a lot of Blue from the LED which the white LED won’t overcome in the setting of highly blue t5s. I am ok w the tank looking more blue for a period during the day if it really helps the corals during the intense lighting period necessary.
I can always tone led intensity way down for beginning and end of day. I also have dimmable t5 capability and would prefer to have some t5 on for better coverage during the evening viewing periods.
I am looking for suggestions here for my bulbs. Do i really need the actinic or should I forgo it since only 4 bulbs? Also, should consider two 6500 tropics bulbs?
Help me out please!
