Quote Originally Posted by Gseclipse02 View Post

"I have a couple of actinics but they only show before and after the white lights turn off."

i would run them the whole time just my .02

I think he meant that it was only visible when his halides were off.

I run t5s myself, but I have a little bit of everything. I don't really like the deep blue look from running more of the blue tubes. As it is now I have a pink tube (man card on probation) and two other purple looking tubes called Coral Excellerator and Coral Stimulator... or they may be called Red Wave and Red somethng. Either way it seems to really bring out the orange and pinks in the tank. But the combination that I have seems to have a very light appearance from around 11am to 5pm and the early morning and late evening colors are popping.

I got another pink coral excellerator tube the other day to replace the damaged one from the other week's storm. Gonna let you in on a little secret... Those tubes are not stronger than the ceiling fan contrary to popular belief.

At any rate, BLUF, I like the ability to tweak the colors with a bank of t5s, but have been thinking about getting a set up of the VHO tubes to experiment with the colors after talking to Todd about it the other day.