T5 question

[sedrostyle]

Well finally one of my friends paid me and while getting salt today I decided to get a a ACTiNIC bulb.
I have a 4 bulb fixture. I thought i'd replace one at a time for now. ....

my fixture is 2 actnic i thought, one white and one purple. ( ended up being 2 true blues. )
I thought i'd be cleaver and get more color by replacing the purple bulb.

Well I got it home and swapped it out the purple for a new actnic 420 bulb.
Found out its basicly the same color as the purple bulb I took out.
So the two blue have must be a true blue ( different from the actinic ) sigh**

my question is... is it ok for me to run the two true blues, purple, and new actinic bulb I bought with no white?
what would be the problem with running no white? long term and short term.
I took out the white and replaced it white the actinic for now just to see what it was like
now my fixture is the 2 blues purple and the 420 actinic.

Thanks for the help

 

[pandora32]

Dont know or have an answer, but how does it look? Any pictures?

 

[sedrostyle]

Yea I lost my phone at the moment. Ill post some shortly.

 

[trido]

If you don't mind the color then there is no problem running without no white bulb. The true blues still have spikes in the red/yellow spectrum and your corals will be fine. Think of it as switching from 14 to 20K.

 

[sedrostyle]

Trido, I love the blue color its a nice way to get color pop.
I think I have 2 true blues, purple and now a 420 actnic

as long as they'll be fine ill leave it that way for a while

 

[DTECH07]

Hey sedrostyle if your ever down in the South Sound (Lakewood area) let me know i have 6 T5 bulbs only used for 5 months you can have.