How Blue Will This Be??

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Im going to be picking up a 6x24 ati dimmable sunpower fixture next month and I am wondering about the combo. I am sure this gets asked a lot but here is what I am thinking. Switching from LED's....just to much variable's with LED's. Will probably throw some reefbrites on though as well.

KZ Fiji Purple
ati coral plus
ati blue plus
KZ fiji purple
ati coral plus
ati blue plus

I am not wanting anything to crazy blue but more like natural light with a touch of blue. I figured the 2 coral plus would keep the blue plus and purple in check. If anyone has a combo that sounds like what I am talking about go ahead and share it with me and if you can it would be great if you could post a picture of what your tank look like with the light.

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Without a white lamp to stabilize, I'd think that it would be very blue.
 
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I thought for some reason that the coral plus was a whiteish bulb. Just gonna have to look through a buncha build threads and see whos combo I like best.

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I believe the coral plus is a 15k lamp, so its in the blue range itself. There are alot of people that run all blue lamps, its all in the eye, it won't hurt the tank at all running what you've got in mind.
 

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personally not a big fan of the coral plus. kind of weird pinkish to me. i may sub in one aqua blue special and one pure actinic for those two. just my opinion though.
 
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personally not a big fan of the coral plus. kind of weird pinkish to me. i may sub in one aqua blue special and one pure actinic for those two. just my opinion though.

Wont that make it super super blue? I have never delt with t5's so no idea what bulb does what. Thanks fo the replies.
 

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Blue+
Blue+
Coral+
Pure actinic
Purple+
Blue+
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It's actually more white in person. I would suggest more blue+ than your current plan. My next bulb change I will be using 4 blue+, 1 coral+ and 1 pure actinic. Yes the coral+ has a funky reddish tint to it by itself, but I like it more than the purple+
 
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Adam is right. If it was an sps only tank I would use aquablue special. It made the sps colors crazy nice but turned my rainbow acans red and orange. That's the only reason I'm not using one.
 
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Thanks for the pic pete. That is not thats not a bad blue plus you say its a little whiter in person. I will take out one coral plus and throw a aqua blue special in there and see how that works out. Maybe kick one of the KZ purples for another blue+...plus the KZ purples are almost twice the cost. I can always change them out if I dont like it anyway.
 

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The aquablue special will make it white as snow. It will completely wash out any blue. Lets say my picture looks 20k in the picture for reference, but in reality its 15k. The camera on my phone picks up on the blue.
 
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Sold! haha. Looks like
ati blue plus
ati coral plus
ati aqua blue special
KZ fiji purple
Ati Blue plus
ati blue plus

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That will be nice for sps. You should get good colors, especially pinks and reds
 

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Maybe I'm old fashioned lol but I just cant imagine not having at least 2 actinics if i had the option;)
 

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