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GreshamH":3q1aulpp said:
The ones I have seen make for a "true" actinic look. There are different blues used and the ones I like the best, and seem to make for the best 'actinic" are the "royal blues"/
Good info here! :)

I have the 20K version from Nanotuners and I love it. The color is amazing as are the glitter lines and the light penetration. These things really are an amazing deal. Highly recommended.

I'd post a picture but unfortunately these lights are very hard to photograph accurately. The LEDs seem to really mess with my camera's ability to capture the color. But in person, the fluorescence is stunning: not just corals, but even the fish glow. The white stripes on clownfish look whiter than white.
 
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Bingo":zkwpqzt2 said:
Can you hire someone to make a canopy shell for you? Something to screw the lumen***'s into? Something like this one?
Here it is over a 75g.
right now it has 2 mogul sockets and a reflector. You could easily add single actinic to it.

I know where you can get one like it, cheap.

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Thanks Bingo. Problem is I don't whether I'll be able to fix the canopy to hang from the ceiling like that (rented accommodation) and I don't want to go through the difficult process of negotiating to do so in Japanese. I'm planning to have a light rack like this...

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I'd love to have something like this, but it'd be too pricey.

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JohnHenry":2s262o6u said:
GreshamH":2s262o6u said:
The ones I have seen make for a "true" actinic look. There are different blues used and the ones I like the best, and seem to make for the best 'actinic" are the "royal blues"/
Good info here! :)

I have the 20K version from Nanotuners and I love it. The color is amazing as are the glitter lines and the light penetration. These things really are an amazing deal. Highly recommended.

I'd post a picture but unfortunately these lights are very hard to photograph accurately. The LEDs seem to really mess with my camera's ability to capture the color. But in person, the fluorescence is stunning: not just corals, but even the fish glow. The white stripes on clownfish look whiter than white.

Good to know Craig. I suspected that the non-actinic blue bulbs probably weren't able to do this. Good to know I was wrong. :)

BTW, go and check out your build thread. Lots of questions waiting for you. ;)
 

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