Well, if you need 65 watt square pin actinics let me know... I have a couple that I've never used (well, not much anyway). I'd read a lot about how actinics made the colors pop on fish, meh. Even with a half 10,000k, half actinic bulb it was still sort of bleh, combined with a pair of dual daylights. Running a pair of dual actinics was horrible, kind of cool on the "night time after sunset" effect though.
I had similar thoughts on lighting when I was planning my 75 gallon, sort of glad I opted for the Orbit instead.
If I upgrade to the Nova Extreme Pro next year it'll have 3 T5 actinics, I'd probably keep one of them in the fixture, along with an AM plant bulb for the pink, and then a mix of 6700K and 10,000K. Flipping through the bulbs for sunrise, day, noon, sunset.
I think I would like these 9325K bulbs if they were only half that purple color, I guess like a Coralife Colormax bulb. Though my impression of those was that the pink was just that, pink, not particularly effective in actual spectrum.
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