New toy, ATI Coral+?

[Greg]

So I bought a new toy for my next tank.
I was thinking of my old setup:
Blue+
Actinic+
Purple+
Blue+

With two radium metal halides of course.

However now theres a new(ish) coral+ bulb that wasn't around before. Anyone give it a try?

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[FishBeard]

Ill admit now, after using the coral+ for a while in my Tek setup, its not bad. It is a good replacement for a straight up cool white daytime bulb to pull some warmer (red/orange/green) colors out a bit more from your corals. Thumbs up from me.

 

[BigKev23]

I love the coral plus. I run four blue plus and two coral plus.

 

[rosko23]

I use 1 coral+, but I'm not 100% sold on it. I do use it for growth but on that geismann the mh's are way more then enough

 

[Greg]

Yah Im not sure which of the 4 id swap it for. :/

 

[WindyCityReefs]

You took my recommendation! Awesome fixture.

I would do 4x blue+ or change one out with an actinic. You don't need any additional white-ish T5 bulbs with the MH bulbs. The purple+ is a bright white/purple bulb. Use the T5 for color supplement and sunrise/set simulation, pluse the blue+ adds a nice amount of PAR.

Eric

 

[Greg]

Hmm, i feel like id be missing some spectrum.

 

[WindyCityReefs]

Nope. All the spectrum is in the MH

 

[Greg]

Well, 10k-15k for sure. But in order to get the 20k I figured it drops red significantly. The purple+ was supposed to bounce that up a little.
That was my thinking at least.