Seeking input

ca2or · Aug 17, 2015

I am planning my lighting and need your input reefaholics. I am doing an LED/MH mix using a 150w se MH and 2 AI primes over my 56. What I am trying to sort out is should I run a 14k MH and use the primes for color or should I run a 20k MH and use the primes to offset the blue? Or should I run a 10k and throw the primes on 20k? Ugh.... What to do?

What I do know is it will be 4 hours of MH in the dead center of my lighting schedule

Oscaror · Aug 18, 2015

bump :)

jasonandsarah · Aug 18, 2015

I'd go 10k-14k MH considering that's where you'll get the best growth and that's why people love MH. Mix that with the 20K coming out of the leds and you should get that POP that I'm sure your looking for, witch is why people love Leds so much.
Going this route you should be able to get great growth and color while also tweaking your Leds to look as visually appealing as possible.

ca2or · Aug 18, 2015

Oscaror said:
bump :)

Thank you

jasonandsarah said:
I'd go 10k-14k MH considering that's where you'll get the best growth and that's why people love MH. Mix that with the 20K coming out of the leds and you should get that POP that I'm sure your looking for, witch is why people love Leds so much.
Going this route you should be able to get great growth and color while also tweaking your Leds to look as visually appealing as possible.

That sounds like a plan.