T5 supplementation for MH

[alten78]

Good morning all!

I'm upgrading my 75g to a 120g and moving away from all t5's and going back to 250w radiums running on luxcore electronic ballasts, I noticed these are a little more blue compared to when I ran them on m80's.

I'm going to be reusing a 2x54 let fixture and currently have a coral+ and a blue+ but those bulbs need replacing shortly. What combo to go with? I'm leaning on one actinic and one blue+?

 

[Captain Quint]

Good morning all!

I'm upgrading my 75g to a 120g and moving away from all t5's and going back to 250w radiums running on luxcore electronic ballasts, I noticed these are a little more blue compared to when I ran them on m80's.

I'm going to be reusing a 2x54 let fixture and currently have a coral+ and a blue+ but those bulbs need replacing shortly. What combo to go with? I'm leaning on one actinic and one blue+?

I recall supplementing my Radiums and Ushio bulbs with 454 VHO's which to me they gave a crisp blue color instead of purple/violet and I recall my yellows looking yellow instead of green, my reds and pinks seemed to pop well, and the par was almost triple that of my super actinics if I recall correctly the super actinics were reading ~40-60 PAR, the VHO was more in the ~120-140 PAR range.

 

[jda]

Do you want it more white or more blue?

 

[alten78]

Do you want it more white or more blue?

I'm thinking more white but to get more pop from reds and pinks as Captain Quint stated.

 

[jda]

GE 6500k, Giesemann Tropic or UVL Actinic White.