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11/20/2007, 08:08 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Portland, OR
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Will I gain significant Par if I do this?
I have a 6 bulb 630 watt vho setup on a 75G. 2 110 watt super actinics, 2 110 watt aquasun, and 2 95 watt aquasuns.
I'm thinking of keeping the 2x110 watt super actinics, and trading out the 4 aquasun bulbs (which run on an icecap 660 ballast) for 4x58 watt t-5 bulbs. Would I gain significant par? Would the tank be noticeably brighter?
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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will spend all day in a boat drinking beer." Current Tank Info: 75G Tank, 29G Sump, 100lbs LR, AquaC EV-180, Iwaki MD-20RT return Tunze nano streams 4X54 t-5/Icecap Ballast & SLR's 2x110 vho actinic |
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11/20/2007, 08:56 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Wine country
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If I have your set up I would do the same thing and use 4x58 t5 11k bulbs and keep the VHO actinics. T5 actinic just doesn't cut it. You will gain par if you use individual reflector for the t5. Even 1 blue plus bulb seems brighter than two vho actinics( I have both)
 I was hoping to use the t5 blue plus as the early morning late after noon dawn to dusk beside my two VHO, but the t5 was brighter
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