Aqua newbie Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Does any one know if there is a significant color difference between RBTA under T5s and RBTA under MH lighting? Also any LFS in Orange county currently selling BTAs? (red or green) Link to comment
danthenewreefman Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Does any one know if there is a significant color difference between RBTA under T5s and RBTA under MH lighting? Also any LFS in Orange county currently selling BTAs? (red or green) type of light source won't change color -- spectrum & intensity will. for example -- under 10k MH at LFS i bought a brown with green striped mushroom. under my T5 20k lights it is a green base color with NEON green stripes. crazy. I didn't know wtf was going on. Link to comment
Aqua newbie Posted January 23, 2011 Author Share Posted January 23, 2011 I have T-5s and I'm just worried that i might waste money buying a RBTA and it looking brown under my T-5s. Link to comment
chumcrazy Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 I have T-5s and I'm just worried that i might waste money buying a RBTA and it looking brown under my T-5s. I have MH and an anemone I love MH, but in my experince T5s bring out better color. All is releative though. If you have only white T5s and are comparing it to 20k MH the halide will look nicer but if your comparing apples to apples T5s produce better color imo. Link to comment
mrbigshot Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 what type of bulbs in your t5? if you have some blues it will look good. if only whites than it will look brown. my lfs uses 10k halides so nothing looks the same there as it does in my tank. Link to comment
Pickle010 Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 My RBTA's are all under T5's and they hold their color just fine. I'm using a 5 bulb T5 unit over a 20g H. In another tank I'm using a smaller 2 bulb fishneedit fixture and the nems in that tank are doing just as well. Link to comment
Aqua newbie Posted January 28, 2011 Author Share Posted January 28, 2011 Thanks guys. I previously had PCs and was very disappointed when I bought green or red corals at my LFS and they turned out looking brown under PCs. Then I switched to T5s. Hopefully I'll see no change! Link to comment
Bishop Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 I just got a rose today and the thing is awesomely red. My lights are 14000k MH with no actinic and it still looked fantastic. Looked a nice red in the sun too. I looked at it outside while it was in the bag. These things are more of an actual red instead of a brown that just looks red in actinic. I can only imagine this would look fantastic under T5 with good actinics. Link to comment
matt frizz Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Look best under T5/MH combo IMO but that's what I have so I'm biased. I have 3 ATI Blue+, 1 ATI Purple+, and one phoenix 14000k MH. Link to comment
MedicBMC Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Seaside in HB has plenty of RBTAs. It will look great under t5's. My avatar is a pic of my rbta that I've had in my tank for about 7 months. Link to comment
Aqua newbie Posted February 8, 2011 Author Share Posted February 8, 2011 Thanks MedicBMC, I'll be sure to check them out when I'm in the area. Link to comment
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