Owens187 said:
Personally, I actually like Jack Daniels' more, but Crown's got that fancy purple velvet sack.
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Personally, I actually like Jack Daniels' more, but Crown's got that fancy purple velvet sack.
I am just trying to think things through. When you look at PAR, 10000 K halides put out about twice as much as 20000 Ks from the same manufacturer. I always wondered, though, whether the same was true for actinic fluorescents. My question boils down to this: can the single spectral peak of an actinic bulb have the same energy as the three peaks of a daylight bulb? Sounds like you guys would say the answer is no based on your experience.wastememphis said:Dave, I said that cuz most people say they have "(x) watts per gallon" and want to know if they can keep a coral, but that usually doesn't mean much unless you know the type of light. I could have a regular house light bulb and use that into the wpg, so its more than just how many watts its what type of bulb it is. I guess I was just making sure it wasn't 300watts of attnics compared to 300watts of a lower kelvin bulb. My corals grew better once i changed out the 5050 bulbs for all 10000k bulbs on my PC's.
I always used my 5050bulbs in the watt/gallon thing but 135watts of 5050 bulbs is not going to be enough for somethings where 135watts of 10000k could be used. I'm kind tired, so sorry if this stuff came out wrong
Its only based on my experience though, conseptually speaking I don't think you could get a coral to grow if you only had VHO attnics over it. But I might be wrong, I thought they were just for supplement to make the tank more visually pleasing. 10000k bulbs have the full spectrum and every other temp bulb is missing on some of it, so if I were to run 20k bulbs I'd probably supplement 10K to get the wavelengths I was missing. Though people do grow aweomse colors under only 20000k. :read: :huh: :thud:
