If I could fit 4 actinics in my hood I probably would have tried that first,
but am limited to 2 bulbs. Curious to see how yours turns out.
-Mike
>From: Shane Clays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: MH Bulb
>Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:38:09 -0700
>
>Thanks for the offer, but I only have 175w ballasts... want to go 6500
>because they have a higher PAR rating. I have seen tanks with them vs 10k
>and although the look of the tank was better, the color of the corals was
>much better under the lower kevlin bulbs. I saw a guy with 55 k MHs on his
>tank along with 6 VHO Actinics and his corals looked absolutely beautiful.
>Very colorful. He had gone from 10k to these, for the same reason and said
>he will never go back. I took some of his frags home, but em in my tank
>(about 1 month ago) and they are starting to loose color. I wanted to
>expirement with the 65k and see if a higher par rating would bring the
>color
>of the corals back and actually, I have a 55k coming just to put it in and
>see what it does over a couple of months (I expect the tank to look nasty,
>but want to see if the corals color up) and then go to 65ks and see what
>happens there. Also, I am thinking of running the one 55k and then adding
>the 65k along with it and 4 vho actinics....
>
>Thoughts??
>
>Shane
>
>
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