T5 Colormax Bulb

should I replace the colormax with a 6700K, or 10,000K, because I've decided I really don't like the pink hue

I have 2x65 PC 6700K
and one 6700K 18w T5 and one colormax T5

My question here is, should I replace the colormax with a 6700K or 10,000K?

Im going for an ADA look btw

maybe you should just follow your own advice... :icon_roll

http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/lighting/54827-have-2-65w-12000k-2-62w.html

Well at the time I thought that was the safest bet for giving the guy advice, I'm not sure what my personal preference would be though. Generally I hear people saying that when giving advice, so I just passed on the word of people who had more experience than I. As well as the fact that it would stand out like a sore thumb, or at least I assume it would because it would be a 3:1 ratio of 6700K's :to: 10,000K's, and I'm sticking with the Coralife 6700K's cause I love em, and why get rid of a perfectly good 6700K T5 to replace it and the Colormax with two 10,000K's? Spypet, you have far more experience than I, if you were in the situation what would you do? Buy two 10,000K's, or just one more 6700K?

Oh and btw, I'm freaking out, my 75P just came like 45 min ago!!!!!!!!!!!!! :hihi:

Thanks

So basically I should go with the 10,000K? sorry if I'm asking the same question over and over....

I thought before it would be better to have them mtch color, but I'm really not sure. I want uniformity throughout the colors and the fixtures are decently spread apart.

BTW, where do you get the 65w 8800K, thats the color that ADA uses, it must be nice

Spypet, I like your choice in bulbs! The slightly higher temps work great for deeper tanks and the colormax makes the colors stand out. Personaly, if I were to replace my bulbs, I would go with a dual daylight (6700 & 10000) and a colormax daylight (6700 & colormax). I loved the colormax on my 65w but it was just too much at 50%. 25% would be so much better. Another 3 months or so...

eh w/e, I just ordered the 6700K, I want everything uniform. let the thread die ppl

Last I looked at the Colormax packaging their little spectral graph (if at all correct) showed a much broader spectral distribution, more of wich is in the photosynthetic range as compared to a typical ~6500K where a lot of spectral radiance is in the green range and does little for plants just makes it look much brighter to our eyes. I'm not sure how thruroughly colormaxes have been used with plants, I was going to attempt but my bulb burnt out after just a couple months and I didnt replace.

Thanks LeftC... I actually tried to look on google and couldnt find the colormax graph. I might have to steal it from you for future reference. :icon_wink

I knew the colormax was somewhat usable. That was wonderful info!

My pic are from PC's. I hope that the T5's aren't very much different.

I've actually got tons of spectral graphs saved on my webserver, like the anacharis one and light absorbsotion one, just didnt have the colormax. I have actually posted those myself many-a-time. :icon_wink

lol, Left C. PCs are T5s, only "folded".

nvrmor2paradise said:

lol, Left C. PCs are T5s, only "folded".

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Not exactly. PC's are fluorescents... so are T5's, T12, etc.

Average PC's in the 55W range use T5 sized tubes. But some larger PC's use T6, some smaller PC's use T4, etc, etc. What sets the spectrum is the phosphors, a T12 and a PC could have identical spectrums, the 'size' doesnt really matter.