blue spectrum light

[blazeyreef]

hey all, Im thinking about trying somthing like this http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Product/Prod_Display.cfm?pcatid=3776&N=2004+113350 on my 29gall to help enhance the color on my corals and to-be corals...would it be worth my $$ ?

 

[Devilishturtles]

What kind of lighting do you have now?

 

[blazeyreef]

well I would put it in place of my normal white stock light

 

[lando]

I think your money would be better spent on upgrading to a new fixture that has both daylight and actinic bulbs. If you are running a NO florescent light it will not be sufficient enough to house corals.

 

[blazeyreef]

I think your money would be better spent on upgrading to a new fixture that has both daylight and actinic bulbs. If you are running a NO florescent light it will not be sufficient enough to house corals.

oh I do have a better light fixture(s) (95 watts of CF, one daylight/actinic and one just daylight) , this will just be for added affects

 

[melosu58]

IMO it will not do anything for your tank. If you had a VHO system and use high watt bulbs it would help for added effects but not that low watt bulb.

 

[blazeyreef]

IMO it will not do anything for your tank. If you had a VHO system and use high watt bulbs it would help for added effects but not that low watt bulb.

ok, darn...that stink cause I like the flourecent colors some of the corals get under the blue light oh well!

 

[melosu58]

I mean it might look pretty under there, dont get me wrong. But it will not do much for the corals.

 

[Devilishturtles]

What fixture do you have now? You might be able to change the bulbs around to get more blue light.

 

[Kurt_Nelson]

I'm confused.

You say you're already running a 96W unit with one daylight/actinic bulb and one pure daylight bulb... correct? So you're already running a blue (actinic) bulb, although it's just one half of the bulb. Why not just change out your daylight/actinic bulb to just actinic, so you're running one blue bulb and one white bulb?

That's what I'm running in my 196W unit - 1/2 the bulb wattage is actinic, the other 1/2 is 10k. Everything seems happy, although at this point it's only some zoanthids and a plate coral.

 

[Ziggy953]

I agree with Kurt and was going to ask the same question. Just get rid of the 50/50 and make it a actinic. while you are at it go on and get a new 10k too.

 

[blazeyreef]

10k ?
its actually just one 65watt unit with another 25 watts on the side, so that makes 90watts correction, but I guess I could replace the major 65watt one, I have this http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Product/Prod_Display.cfm?pcatid=11418&N=2004+113345
and havent seen any replacments that are just blue actinic...

 

[Kurt_Nelson]

Ohhh... I get it now. You've just added this Current/SmartPaq unit to your existing single bulb strip that probably came with the tank. I was thinking you had a light strip that had two separate bulbs, each with equal wattage.

Sounds like you've done about the most you can do with what you've got. Sorry for the confusion!

 

[Ziggy953]

Yeah I misunderstood also.