Canapy Placement Order of T5s

Jake · 05-30-2008, 10:51 PM

I was thinking, does it matter what order the lights are placed from front to back in the canapy. I have a 75G with a canapy with 4 T5s (2 actinic and 2 regular with each pair on a separate timer). The actinics are on for 2 hrs before and after the regulars.

Should they be installed front to back in the canapy as: Reg, Reg, Act, Act or Reg, Act, Reg, Act or Act, Reg, Reg, Act or some other variation and does it matter?

Tru2nr · 05-30-2008, 11:10 PM

itsa kinda what u like personally i prefer act reg act reg

Jake · 05-31-2008, 05:07 PM

OK so a slightly different question... Does our coral and coraline grow more from the regular or actinic lights?

Octoman · 05-31-2008, 05:20 PM

The regular lights will provide the most PAR. The actinics provide some useful light, but they are used more because they make the colors more pleasing to our eyes. Some corals can fluoresce and turn the blue light into more useful light, but they will probably benefit most from light closer to the spectrum of the sun.

Jake · 06-01-2008, 02:29 PM

OK, so I may move some lights around to have the regular lights over the front half of the canapy since that is where most of my coral is.

BigAl07 · 06-01-2008, 04:02 PM

Placement isn't really that critical with only four bulbs. In an eight bulb set up you may be more inclined to stagger but the light spread isn't that critical with 4 bulbs. with that say I have mine staggered

05-30-2008, 10:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
Jake Pistol Shrimp Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Florida Posts: 243 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Canapy Placement Order of T5s I was thinking, does it matter what order the lights are placed from front to back in the canapy. I have a 75G with a canapy with 4 T5s (2 actinic and 2 regular with each pair on a separate timer). The actinics are on for 2 hrs before and after the regulars. Should they be installed front to back in the canapy as: Reg, Reg, Act, Act or Reg, Act, Reg, Act or Act, Reg, Reg, Act or some other variation and does it matter? __________________ 75 Gal Setup 4/07 Fish: Purple Tang 6", Solarensis Fairy Wrasse, Pajama Cardinal, Two Ocellarous Clowns, Neon Goby, Two Firefish Inverts: Several Blue leg hermits, 4 Tubo Snails, 4 Nassarius Snails, 5 Zebra Turbo snails, 5 Trochus Grazer snails, 1 cleaner shrimp, 1 feather duster Coral: Frogspawn, Cynarina (pinkish - cool), African Blue Zenia, Long White Polyp Tip Leather, Pink Pavona, Blue, Green, Orange Recordia, Orange Monti Cap, Green Star Polyp, Zoo Cat Eye, Green Clove Polyp.

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Tru2nr Elegance coral Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 1,169 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Canapy Placement Order of T5s itsa kinda what u like personally i prefer act reg act reg __________________ My 55g Chronical of addiction... Mistakes Have been made in the past.....still trying to clean up from them in the present....mistakes will be made in the future.....so what do we do?...... we party until we make another mistake!!!! WARNING: Corals in Tank, Add Crabs at own risk

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Jake Pistol Shrimp Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Florida Posts: 243 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Canapy Placement Order of T5s OK so a slightly different question... Does our coral and coraline grow more from the regular or actinic lights?

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Octoman Majano Slayer Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Savannah, GA Posts: 1,680 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Canapy Placement Order of T5s The regular lights will provide the most PAR. The actinics provide some useful light, but they are used more because they make the colors more pleasing to our eyes. Some corals can fluoresce and turn the blue light into more useful light, but they will probably benefit most from light closer to the spectrum of the sun. __________________ Mark My tank thread... Octoman's 55 gallons of euphoria Tank build... 55 Construction

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Jake Pistol Shrimp Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Florida Posts: 243 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Canapy Placement Order of T5s OK, so I may move some lights around to have the regular lights over the front half of the canapy since that is where most of my coral is.

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