I have a crappy buzzing light that I"m looking to replace and I've decided on Coralife T-5 Aqualight Double Strip Light-30". I need some opinions on whether to get the F/W or S/W one, I have a few dats and a severum, so they are not very fond of ultra bright lighting. The lights differ in that the S/W is more of a blueish tint, and I"m not sure what the F/W looks like. I need some intank shots of both to make my decision so somebody please post some pics.
Coralife T-5 S/W or F/W
- Thread starter dennisdeng2002
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I vote freshwater. I have the lights and I replaced the 6700 K bulb with a 10,000K bulb and left the pink colourmax one in with it.
the combo of the 10,000K and the colourmax was great.
it looked better than the colourmax and the 6700K. it was not as yellowish.
the combo of the 10,000K and the colourmax was great.
it looked better than the colourmax and the 6700K. it was not as yellowish.
dennisdeng2002;2395606; said:
You asked for them, crappy pics and tank no where close to done yet (no background, allot more plants coming etc...) sorry! These pictures don't do the F/W T5 justice. Great lights IMO.
I have no skills with the camera so I'm not sure the best way to show the lighting quality? They are T5's though...
Looks kind of yellowish, I'm leaning toward the S/W anybody got pics of that? Or just a pics of the 10000k bulb with the colormax.
Frostyone;2395025; said:
not to derail nor argue, i always understood that a 6700k would cause more algae growth than an actinic? have i been wrong? I'm only running a 10,000k on my 300 right now but was about to put another bulb in the fixture and was gonna go actinic (it's a 2 bulb fixture with only one now, and no live plants).
is this for a planted tank? or just a regular setup? here's some of my tanks:
6,500k
18,000k
10,000k
18,000k
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6,500k
18,000k
10,000k
18,000k
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Its for a regular tank no plants. Great pics are any of those with the colormax or acintic bulbs?