Replacement Bulb Advice Needed

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Dexmom

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I have a Coralife T5 HO light and am needing to replace the bulbs. I really don't like the fact that all my zoas looks brown that are supposed to be reds. Any suggestions on the bulbs I should put in? The bulbs in there now came with the fixture.
 
How many bulbs in the fixture? You probably want to get a daylight bulb in the mix. Personally I run 3 blue+, 1 purple, 1 daylight and 1 actinic. You might want to buy a couple of extra bulbs so you can play with different combinations. Also, check the group buy section, there is currently a group buy going on with Reefgeek for 20% off and free shipping.
 
Check out these blog posts:

http://blog.reefgeek.com/2013/07/replacing-t5-bulbs.html

http://blog.reefgeek.com/search/label/Bulbs

I myself had had a lot of success with all ATI and I've experimented a lot with my bulb configurations.
 
@DaveJ wrote:
I use ATI blue... nothing better IMO. 2 and 2 Actinics should be plenty. Or 3 and 1. said:
Actinics don't punch out PAR. I use the ATI blue replacing my actinics (haven't used actinics since my PC lights when i started my tank). You still need one other 14-16k bulb to give your corals an alternate spectrum.
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Actinics don't punch out PAR. I use the ATI blue replacing my actinics (haven't used actinics since my PC lights when i started my tank). You still need one other 14-16k bulb to give your corals an alternate spectrum.[/quote]

So, I can run 1 white and the rest blues?
 
another +1 for 2 Blue+, Coral+ and Fiji Purp!

If you want more pop from the corals, I would suggest adding an all blue led strip to the mix!
 
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