Quote Originally Posted by iyachtuxivm View Post
With actinics you get a nice "glow" to your corals but they dont have half the PAR of the blue+ IMO a waste of space. You are going to over power those actinics with the other lights you wont even see the benefit of the glow. The blue+ have plenty of the blue spectrum corals need to grow big and strong. I could understand if you were going to run the actinic as a dusk dawn effect but you have the icecap LEDs to do that (way better). IMO the added PAR of a blue+ will be more beneficial to you and your corals then the actinic bulb.
Thanks for the info. This will be a learning experience and since I have them already, I can only hope they will work well. We also plan on simulating dusk/dawn.