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zuzecawi
09/05/2006, 01:47 PM
Lookin to see if anybody mixes their halides. As in... one 6500 one 10K and one 20K, etc. I'm thinking of putting on my trio in such a sequence: 20K 6500K 20K vs the current config (untried yet) of 3 10K and 2 VHO actinics. Would like to find out before I take the 10's out of the box.

Currently I have my 58 under one 20K and love it, awesome coral growth and colors.

Any pictures of your mixed setups would be appreciated.

zuzecawi
09/05/2006, 04:40 PM
Hmmm... bump.

prodman
09/05/2006, 06:18 PM
on my 4ft tank i have 2-20k and 1 10k in the center. I also have atinics

youngster119
09/05/2006, 07:16 PM
i currently... #1 100g, 2 400w 10k, 1 250 14k hqi

#2 90g, 2 175 10k, 1 250 14k hqi, 2 vho actinics, set of five blue led moon lights

very good growth on the 90g and the 100g is a new setup so i guess we can find out toghter lol :)

zuzecawi
09/06/2006, 02:22 PM
I see a lot of 10K combos but hardly any 6500K combos... is the yellowing from 6500K really noticeable in combination with actinics, or are we just all stuck on the 10K boat?

mwood
09/06/2006, 03:03 PM
I currently run 400w xm10k's with evc14k's in custom drilled lumenarcs. Pics are in my gallery. In the past I've run 400w radiums with xm10k's, radiums with iwasaki's, and 250w xm20k's with 400w iwasaki's. I ran some of those combos in DIY wood reflectors.

I like the xm10k/20k style combo if you can get them to blend. The look is 11k-12k. It's hard to significantly offset 10k lights.