Best K rating for showing off GT's?

[Cohazard]

What is the best K rating to use over a GT tank to fully show off their color?

Especially gold saums.

Right now I'm using a 50/50 bulb that I picked up today... it looks okay, but the other unknown K rating bulb I have that's sort of purple in color, really brings out the orange in my GT's tails.

So I guess I'm going to use both, but what spectrum of lighting do you use to max the blues and oranges?

Thnx in advance.

 

[dovii88]

6700

 

[Bderick67]

The coralife colormax lamps really hi-lite fish colors nicely(my silver aro in my avatar, good example). I am not posative but I believe the degrees kelvin rating on them is 5000k. I am actually going to relamp all my powercompacts with the 50/50 6700k/colormax lamps that I've been hearing about, but have yet to see.

 

[Cohazard]

I bought a light fixture today... it's a JEBO 2x40w NO fixture.

It was expensive ($130! lol) but I don't mind because the store I bought it from is my favorite... they always have semi rare fish for great prices. I try to 'give back' once in a while.

Anyways, it came with a white bulb of unknown K rating that might be defective? It looks like there's wavy lightening inside of it?? Kind of like those cold cathodes for autos or pc towers.

The other is pink which I believe is the color max bulb.

So right now I'm using the white uh, lightening bulb, the colormax and the 50/50 I also bought today.

So far it looks great. My tank is now bright enough that taking good pictures will be muuuuuch easier.

I can see that one of my GT's is better quality than I thought. It has redish colored 'temples' and yellow in it's tail and towards the back of the dorsal fin (which is a trait in good quality GT's).

I'm satisfied

 

[Mr.Firemouth]

Go to 10k bulbs. The color is definitely more white than yellow however the colors on the fish will phosphorescence much more. try these color lamps when you replace bulbs.

 

[Cohazard]

IME 10k bulbs are more blue than white. The 50/50 I'm using looks very similar to the 10k PC's I have, but I haven't had them next to each other or anything.

 

[roliva]

I use 10k bulbs. I find only a very, very slight hint of blue. Otherwise, it's a pure white light and will show off BLUES/GREENS the best. You won't be dissappointed.

Here's a shot using 10K with no camera flash of my umbee: