[APD] RE: Actinics and other things to darken (or lighten)

["Tom Wood" <tomwood2 at flash_net>]

"I have used actinic power compact lamps over planted tanks in 
the past, and those lights gave the tank and plants such an 
unnatural looking hue that I took them off after just a couple 
days."

David - How many of what size CF over what size tank did you try? 
I'm trying to get down to just two 96W CF lamps over a 90 gallon, 
so that would be four tubes at two tubes per lamp. If I use one 
6700K lamp (two tubes) and one 10,000K/Actinic combo, that would 
be roughly a 3:1 ratio of daylight to actinic when counting 
individual tubes.

"A blue LED moon light after lights out gave me the same reaction 
as using actinics/daylight bulbs in the daytime. Great for a 
reef, but just wrong for a plant tank."

I assumed the same thing and ordered white LED moonlights here: 
http://autolumination.com/fixtures.htm

TW


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