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    T5 lights fact or fiction?

    just the 3000k is GE, then 2x 12k ATI aquablue specials and 3x ATI blue +. the ATI produce a lot more par than the GE's. i always wanted to try the UV super actinic but they dont come in 80w. i do like the ones i seen in the 54watters. no not a tek system. this a retrofit icecap set up with slr...
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    T5 lights fact or fiction?

    i am running all T5's and like the results. i do still use chiller though. only about 2-3 weeks out of the year. thats not because of lights, no light i would still need the chiller for those 2-3 weeks. with MH i would need that chiller hooked up all year. o man LED now thats going produce some...
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    T5 lights fact or fiction?

    alot less heat thats for sure. though i like MH too. i am getting ready to upgrade to a 300gal and use both MH and T5. T5 not just for actinic. i like how the 3000k brings out the reds. have not tried the 3500k yet or a few others but i will. thats not for about 6 months. well maybe less, sence...
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    T5 lights fact or fiction?

    for color this is a acro i got that was under 14k MH. one month after i got it, puff it has color. did not expect it but i like it. so if its a question weather softies, lps, sps, clams whatever, T5's can do the job. when i started this tank most all said no way with sps or clams. but hey it...
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    T5 lights fact or fiction?

    intersting thread pvillalba. i might have got more growth with MH who knows. i think if i had kept the Ca reator on i would have alot more growth too. to many factors more important than light. flow for ex., only IMO though. i could alway increase the light to all 6 bulbs more. if i ran them a...
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    T5 lights fact or fiction?

    ok i looked at my chronicle and did have a good pic of the basto's so i just took one, had these about a year as most of these corals, all started out under 1" frags. man i think i am coming down wtih pic fever. i feel the need to update my photos on everything.
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    T5 lights fact or fiction?

    humm i think the pic are too small. you can not even see the blasto's. i had to move them down and under a ledge, too much light for them. o and on the brain and candy cane i had to add some tinted acrylic to dim the light for them, still the candycanes could do with a little less light. i even...
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    T5 lights fact or fiction?

    ok here are some shots from last month. you see those little frags have really started to grow. the down time for growth, the slowing for 6months was because i took off my Careactor and went with just kalk, that did not keep up so the Ca reactor went back up and the growth rates went up big...
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    T5 lights fact or fiction?

    these are just some of the growth. in my chronicle you can see more. the clams have grown almost 2" in the last year. i even had some browning on one of my arco's that i thought was due to lighting. but nope, it was water flow related, too strong at night. fixed that and the acro has recovered...
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    T5 lights fact or fiction?

    ok last ones. this is one month of growth on my birds nest and a FTS.
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    T5 lights fact or fiction?

    still more, this guy about 3" form bottom
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    T5 lights fact or fiction?

    here is some more, i messed up on the last one, those are not the same coral togather.:p this one is about 5" for the bottom
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    T5 lights fact or fiction?

    and a couple more, man wish i could put 4 pic in at the same time.
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    T5 lights fact or fiction?

    couple more, this guy is about 3" from the bottom
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    T5 lights fact or fiction?

    couple more.
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    T5 lights fact or fiction?

    yup it went to my email. been awhile. tank i still going strong. a few changes. i raised the lights up to 5" off the top. and yup still T5's. the T5's work great. clams, acros, millos and even the anemone in the corner where it does not get too much light, all doing great with some good growth...
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    No caroline algea?

    i agree with above get some salifert kits. no, dont just add buffer. your ph is already on the high side. adding buffer will may raise the alk but it will affect the ph as well. baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) would the best choice here. however, with such huge inbalance between Ca+ and ALk i...
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    No caroline algea?

    wow your alk is way low. 1.6ppm of alk is like nothing. i think it equals 0.09 dkh or 0.03meq/l, which is nothing. are you sure the readings are in ppm??? also with the nitirtes present i would have to save you tank is still cycling. almost at the end but still cycling. one other thing is your...
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    algae or bacteria

    yup it sounds like dinoflagellates. IMO out of all the things you could indroduce into the tank dinos are the worst.
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    adding a Leopard wrasses, with a est. lubbucks how should i do it?

    hi and thanks for the reply. the tank has been going for about 18 months now. the first year it was fishless. pods are everywhere. the tank has not had any pod preditors until i added the gramma who has been in the tank about 2 months i think. i actually need something just to decrease there...
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