What T5s to add to AI Sol blue?

[manchreef7]

I want to add just 2 t5s to supplement my ai sol blue fixture. Just not sure which 2 bulbs would benefit me the most. I have mostly lps, and a handful of sps. I just have the room to do it and figured it cant hurt. I was thinking a fiji purple and maybe a ge 6500k? What do yall think

[manchreef7]

Has no one done this? Wouldnt this help round out the sol to help ensure corals are getting everything they need?

[gldnegle76]

I've been looking into doing the same thing, either adding a fiji purple t5 or quite possibly an ecoxotic panorama pro in the blue/magenta range. I have two ai sol blues and don't think ecoxotic's stunner strips will be strong enough.
If ai had warm or neutral whites that could be retrofitted, that might work as well to get a little red into the spectrum. Not sure I would replace all the cool whites but at least some of them.
I've been looking through the forums to get ideas on this, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of information on this yet.
I'd prefer to suppliment with led if possible.

[thegrun]

Originally Posted by gldnegle76

I've been looking into doing the same thing, either adding a fiji purple t5 or quite possibly an ecoxotic panorama pro in the blue/magenta range. I have two ai sol blues and don't think ecoxotic's stunner strips will be strong enough.
If ai had warm or neutral whites that could be retrofitted, that might work as well to get a little red into the spectrum. Not sure I would replace all the cool whites but at least some of them.
I've been looking through the forums to get ideas on this, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of information on this yet.
I'd prefer to suppliment with led if possible.

I've been thinking about adding a UV and red stunner strip to mine, I think it would add enough light to round out the spectrum. If I was going T-5 I agree the Fugi purple would be the way to go.

[gldnegle76]

Originally Posted by thegrun

I've been thinking about adding a UV and red stunner strip to mine, I think it would add enough light to round out the spectrum. If I was going T-5 I agree the Fugi purple would be the way to go.

How many ai modules do you have, and what length stunner strips would you use?

[kmu]

Originally Posted by gldnegle76

I've been looking into doing the same thing, either adding a fiji purple t5 or quite possibly an ecoxotic panorama pro in the blue/magenta range. I have two ai sol blues and don't think ecoxotic's stunner strips will be strong enough.
If ai had warm or neutral whites that could be retrofitted, that might work as well to get a little red into the spectrum. Not sure I would replace all the cool whites but at least some of them.
I've been looking through the forums to get ideas on this, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of information on this yet.
I'd prefer to suppliment with led if possible.

I had the AI Sol Blues and tried out the ecoxotic panoramas pros blue/magenta 3 of them and the sol blues just overpower them, not to many magenta leds to really make a difference with all the blues from the Sol Blues and the Blues from the panorama pros...

I would just get a Fiji purple or ATI Purple plus with a Blue plus in T5s to supplement the SOl Blues

[kc350twin]

Purple Plus and a True actinic would be my choice. I'm not convinced that Blue+ is what you need. The AI has more then enough blue but I'm not a lighting expert. This has been done by a few people I know of. There are many threads on this subject. Doing it clean with out a canopy has yet to be seen. This is why I went back to T5's. It is easier and cleaner to add LED's to T5's.

KC3