Increase light output by changing bulbs?

[malawinovice]

I have a coralife aqualight with actinic pc bulb at 65 watts and a 65 watt 10,000 k bulb.

Can I incease my light output for my corals by switching the actinic bulb out for a 50/50 bulb?
or another 10,000k bulb?


what use are the actinics?

thanks

[oct2274]

yes, you can definitely increase output by changing to white bulbs. actinics are for color and make certain corals fluores or glow sorta like a black light. If you don't care then switch to a 6500k or 10000k bulb for more output

[mg426]

Thats the way its done.

[djcerna]

But remember the more lower K value the more yellow. A 6500K is really yellow looking.
Daivd

[NanoReefWanabe]

a single 50/50 with a 10kk would look nice i am sure...you will still get a bit of colour popping but with lots more light

[918ReefCpl]

Ditch the Coralife's and switch over to the Current Sunpaq.
The difference was amazing after switching over from Coralife's 96w 10k & 460nm actinics over to Sunpaq's 96w 10K and 420/460nm series bulbs on our 125...