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So lay them this way:

Violet reef day
Blue plus
Blue sky
Blue Plus
Violet Reef Day

I’ve emailed Orphek a couple times on this and they are fairly locked in on making sure there is a Blue Sky in the mix… how does the Reef Day Plus stack up with the Violet Reef Day? Wondering if I should swap those in instead of the Violet Reef Day and do:

Blue Plus
Reef Day Plus
Blue Sky
Reef Day Plus
Blue Plus
 

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the reef day isn’t as purple. I quite enjoy it but the 24 has odd led placement. The 48” layout is much better. If you want more purple then go for violet day. The white mix is great. The purple hue doesn’t show in photos though.

I don’t have a sky so not sure how that would mix in.
 
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the reef day isn’t as purple. I quite enjoy it but the 24 has odd led placement. The 48” layout is much better. If you want more purple then go for violet day. The white mix is great. The purple hue doesn’t show in photos though.

I don’t have a sky so not sure how that would mix in.
Now you’ve got me thinking about doing 3 Blue Plus and 2 Reef Day Plus.
 

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So lay them this way:

Violet reef day
Blue plus
Blue sky
Blue Plus
Violet Reef Day

I’ve emailed Orphek a couple times on this and they are fairly locked in on making sure there is a Blue Sky in the mix… how does the Reef Day Plus stack up with the Violet Reef Day? Wondering if I should swap those in instead of the Violet Reef Day and do:

Blue Plus
Reef Day Plus
Blue Sky
Reef Day Plus
Blue Plus
I'm going all OR3 LED bars (6x 24in/60cm) on my next setup and chose the following combo.

Blue Plus
Blue Sky
Reef Day Plus
Violet Reef Day
Blue Sky
Blue Plus

Can't speak for spectrum when all ramped up and blending / ordering of the lights until I actually receive them, but I am quite interested to see how this combo of 6 do together.

Would love to hear how best to order the above to achieve best blend for anyone running OR3s. Thank you!
 
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I'm going all OR3 LED bars (6x 24in/60cm) on my next setup and chose the following combo.

Blue Plus
Blue Sky
Reef Day Plus
Violet Reef Day
Blue Sky
Blue Plus

Can't speak for spectrum when all ramped up and blending / ordering of the lights until I actually receive them, but I am quite interested to see how this combo of 6 do together.

Would love to hear how best to order the above to achieve best blend for anyone running OR3s. Thank you!
There should be an OR3 trading thread on this forum for people who don’t like how they’re spectrum turned out and want to try another bar combination
 

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What kind of light bars are those?
 

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What kind of light bars are those?
Crazy how people with tanks like this just disappear

His build thread mentions the bars a few times
 

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It's 16 pages long lol. I'm not reading for 3 hrs to figure out the name of a light. I don't want his life story. I read 3 pages in
You can get some info doing a search ..
Nope. I’m still just using the two Orphek OR2 bars.One day I’ll add another bar or 2 to get better distribution.
Once you find the build thread..
Search: light bar: use drop-down for " this thread"
Got me to pg 12 and the above quote

Repeat using Orphek as the search term to get more of the story...
 

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You can get some info doing a search ..

Once you find the build thread..
Search: light bar: use drop-down for " this thread"
Got me to pg 12 and the above quote

Repeat using Orphek as the search term to get more of the story...
I just Did search “this thread” and typed in “bar” and it gave the posts where he mentioned the original two, a third, one dying, and the replacement
 

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I just Did search “this thread” and typed in “bar” and it gave the posts where he mentioned the original two, a third, one dying, and the replacement
Was for tiotusa... so they didn't have to read for 3 hours.. :)
 

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