Tek 2 Retro kit reflectors

[yukon]

Ordered a 6 bulb Tek 2 retro kit and started putting it together the other night. I built a frame to mount them on so I can suspend them inside my canopy.( I have a rather high canopy). In order to fit all 6 bulbs into my canopy I had to squeeze them into the 15.5" I have front to back. The endcaps and bulbs fit fine but these 3" wide reflectors are all over each other. Should I cut it back to 5 bulbs or just bend the reflectors in a little? I would really like to keep the 6 bulbs since this is going over a 90 gallon.

Here is my canopy to give you an idea. Thats an Aqualight pro hanging in there and it just barely fits with a little force:squigglemouth:

 

[Troylee]

bending them should be fine, you wont lose par it will just cut down the spread each light gives off...

 

[yukon]

I endend up raising a couple lights to offset the reflectors. I read somewhere the Tek2's being that they are engineered with all the bends it could hurt performance. I am getting some light reflecting back up so not sure if I'll keep this or remove the blocks and bend them