Supplemental blue lighting

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Hello!
Running a 4’ long x 2’ x 2’, 120 g. Currently have 2 ai 32’s and two ai 16’s. Running saxby preset (no adjustments).
my corals are all happy (hammer, Duncan, zoas, leathers, anacropora, stylophora, gsp, tounge plate, leptoseris, pulsing Xenia, Hollywood stunner chalice, firework cloves, palys, trumpet/candy cane, Kenya trees) and growing really well, but I have some shading that I would like to address out of personal preference. I want to add some lights in between the 32’s and the 16’s because I’m getting some “V”s of darkness at the top of my tank (sorry for the fish box in the way, don’t have any recent FTS) :) I’d like to not break the bank on this lighting and I’d like the blues to be strong enough to help the colors of my corals pop.

Thanks for the help!

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You will be happy with 1 or 2 Orphek OR3 blue plus light strips
 

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Before adding more lights, I would try moving the two 32's a little toward the middle of the tank. if that doesn't work I would look at the Orphek suggested by #vetteguy53081
 
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Before adding more lights, I would try moving the two 32's a little toward the middle of the tank. if that doesn't work I would look at the Orphek suggested by #vetteguy53081
I’ll give it a shot, but I think it causes the outer spaces of the tank to have dark shadowing instead. These lights look great, good reviews! I’m definitely thinking light bars will be the way to get what I want. I’ll admit, I was hoping to find two lights less than $100 each, but I think that’s going to be near impossible.
 

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