ati blue + t5 bulb

[jerl77]

love the look of the bulbs so my question is can i run all blue + bulbs?
i rwead somewhere they give off more par the ati aqua blue ?
so can i run all aqua blue + buulbs and mabey 1 fuji purple in there ?

 

[TopNotchCorals]

love the look of the bulbs so my question is can i run all blue + bulbs?
i rwead somewhere they give off more par the ati aqua blue ?
so can i run all aqua blue + buulbs and mabey 1 fuji purple in there ?

I ran all blue+ and 1 fiji purp and everything was ok:)

 

[agent462]

Well you can but you want to make sure you cover the three PAR spectrums so you get decent coral growth. You'll want at least one fiji purple to have a higher supplement of the red spectrum. You could also have a good daylight instead of the FP.

 

[jerl77]

no problem with sps i dont care about just color

I ran all blue+ and 1 fiji purp and everything was ok:)

 

[jerl77]

so blue + is more par then aqua blue?

 

[shapermike]

I Grow most of my SPS under Ati Blue + and actinics

 

[JR's Reef]

This should help it gives par readings of alot of T5 bulbs
par (tfivetesting)

AB has more par than B+

 

[TopNotchCorals]

Well you can but you want to make sure you cover the three PAR spectrums so you get decent coral growth. You'll want at least one fiji purple to have a higher supplement of the red spectrum. You could also have a good daylight instead of the FP.

Listen to this guy he knows what he is talking about and helped me out when I was in need of T5 help also.:)

 

[agent462]

I can give you a PAR reading off my tank in about 30 minutes. My daylights don't turn on for another 15 minutes and then another 15 to make sure they are nice and warm.

If you are keeping SPS mainly, I would use a daylight and FP for sure if you want best growth. What do you want most growth or color. How many bulbs do you have to work with?

 

[jerl77]

looking for color working with an 8 bulb tek set up i love the 20k look hate the white look

 

[jerl77]

wow thanks for the reading blue + has really good par reading wow thanks for the link

This should help it gives par readings of alot of T5 bulbs
par (tfivetesting)

AB has more par than B+

 

[agent462]

Well if you want color I would go with something like this. Feel free to swap out a B+ for a Pure Actinic.
ATI aquablue special
B+
B+
Fiji Purple
B+
B+
Fiji Purple
B+

 

[jerl77]

nice going to order some more blue + now

Well if you want color I would go with something like this. Feel free to swap out a B+ for a Pure Actinic.
ATI aquablue special
B+
B+
Fiji Purple
B+
B+
Fiji Purple
B+

 

[minhvu]

I run 6 B+ and 4 FP in my 10bulbs configuration. Great colors and growth

 

[agent462]

Sorry for the delay I was mistaken on the time :) I thought it was an hour later. Daylights come on at 1:30

These are 60" 80w bulbs at about 3 months old in the center of the bulb.
ATI Aquablue Special 1410
ATI Blue + 1000
Fiji Purple 1185

 

[jerl77]

nice going to give it a try

Sorry for the delay I was mistaken on the time :) I thought it was an hour later. Daylights come on at 1:30

These are 60" 80w bulbs at about 3 months old in the center of the bulb.
ATI Aquablue Special 1410
ATI Blue + 1000
Fiji Purple 1185