T5 Bulb type Recommendations with Aquatic Life Hybrid + XR30's

[JMetaxas]

I was hoping you guys could help with me with T5 bulb type recommendations for my Aquatic Life T5 Hybrid.

- I just mounted 3 Gen 4 XR30W LED's and was planning on running them on the Coral Lab SPS AB+ lighting schedule. My tank (180 gal) will be SPS dominant, but will have a few softies and LPS.

- The fixture was used so I want to replace the bulbs, hence if anyone has a recommendation on which ones to order (i.e Coral+, Purple+, Actinics, etc)

Thanks,

John / Old Saybrook, CT

 

[14 foot reef]

John with my Kessil A360we's I run Blue+, Coral+, Purple+, and True Actinic. I'm very happy with this combo, but this is with Kessils. Hope this helps.

 

[drtrash]

Starting to like b+, actininc, actinic, b+

 

[Montiman]

+1 on this combo I just helped someone set up a hybrid with the Giesemann bulbs 2 actinic 2superactinic and it looks nice.

 

[jda]

This is all up to you. Probably no wrong answer here... especially since you can always tweak the Radions if you want a different color.

Personally, I would use a pair of 6500k and a pair of Actinics and then blue-up the Radions if you think that it is too yellow. The 6500k can do things that Blue+ or the Radions cannot do.

 

[JMetaxas]

My plan is to start the day with 2 T5's, then go to 4 T5's, then have the LED's ramp up from zero to 50%, then after they go back to zero (~8 hours later), two of the t5's shut off, then eventually, the last 2 T5's.