Bright white lighting

[SemperFish]

Ive got the combo actinic blue/white bulbs on one tank and it looks soooo much better thank my one with a white bulb.

 

[ccdoido38]

Hagen, the maker of the sun glo bulbs, does not make a 12,000K bulb anymore. The flora glo bulb is their lowest at 2700K (if I remember right), then the sun glo at 4700K, the Life glo 2 at 6700K, the aqua glo and power glo at 18,000K and then the marine glo which is just actinic. If you want a white light, just go to lowes and get a cool white 48" T12 bulb.

will those lowes bulbs fit the perfecto flourescent strip lights?

do you have any pictures of the bulb you mentioned above(in use)?
does the lighting color really affect the fish's color too? my bright silver bala shark is darkening day by day in my "purple" tank. and my id sharks are looking horrible now.

Ive got the combo actinic blue/white bulbs on one tank and it looks soooo much better thank my one with a white bulb.

any pics?
what do you mean by combo? lik double lights?

 

[Danyal]

yes, the actinitc lights produce almost pure blue spectrum that looks very nice when combined with a whiter bulb. the cool white bulbs i've found to be incredibly yellow and the 10,000k zoomed i had was very green, however the new lighting rod t6 looks very nice. basically the lower the kelvin temp the more yellow the light is going to appear while the higher the more blue/white it is going to look.

 

[WyldFya]

yes, the actinitc lights produce almost pure blue spectrum that looks very nice when combined with a whiter bulb. the cool white bulbs i've found to be incredibly yellow and the 10,000k zoomed i had was very green, however the new lighting rod t6 looks very nice. basically the lower the kelvin temp the more yellow the light is going to appear while the higher the more blue/white it is going to look.

The specific peaks of the spectrum dictate the color more than the Kelvin rating.

 

[WyldFya]

will those lowes bulbs fit the perfecto flourescent strip lights?

do you have any pictures of the bulb you mentioned above(in use)?
does the lighting color really affect the fish's color too? my bright silver bala shark is darkening day by day in my "purple" tank. and my id sharks are looking horrible now.



any pics?
what do you mean by combo? lik double lights?

T8 bulbs are universal, as are T12s.

 

[SemperFish]

This is the combo light I use. It was hard to get a good picture that shows it but it is one bulb that has a blue element and a white one.

 

[ccdoido38]

so which brand is the white one on top?
and the blue one on bottom?

if possible can you take 3 pictures of your tank with both light on, and one light on at a time

 

[SemperFish]

The blue and the white are actually one bulb so I cant turn one on and the other off. I have seen set ups where they put in one blue and one white and can power them on individually though. Ive heard thats actually better because the blue bulb will start to lose its blue tint before the white one fades so in the long run its more economical. Its a "50/50 smat bulb" I dont know who the maker is but it came with my Odyssea lamp. The combination really brings out the colors in your fish though!

 

[duke33]

Go to Lowes,or simular, and buy a 500w flourescent street light...$45