Hi peeps
The midday can be very effective when balancing output but on tube set up's of around 6 tubes or less it can become a little dominant giving the aquarium a yellow colour cast as mentioned. As sea water in a natural setting tends to filter out the yellow spectrum a home reef maybe left looking a little off colour. Zooxanthellae wont mind so this wont be to the detriment of your corals though.Obviously there will be personal taste involved, im not a lover of yellow light prefering a crisp white/blue.
The luminous flux of the Aquablue plus tube isnt too far behind the midday so in real terms there isnt a great gain to be had in using a midday over the Aquablue plus for output. As the midday is a yellow tube the temptation is to then balance this light with more lower output blue tubes such as the Actinic plus or pure and loosing any output advantage of the Midday tube.
Luminous flux examples 54w:
Midday 3500lm
Aquablue plus 3200lm
Aquapink 1800lm
Actinic plus 1150lm
Actinic pure 400lm
So in a 6 tube set up i would go with:
3 x Aquablue plus
2 x Actinic plus
1 x Aquapink
This would give best light output from a 6 tube set up with a crisp white/blue but offer enough blue/pink light for pop of reds and green.
Dropping an Aquablue plus for either an Actinic plus or a pure would give a more blue but at the detriment of a little output.
For set up's with 8 plus tubes a midday would become less dominant and easier to blend into the set up making it a useful tube to balance required output.
Hope this helps a little.
The midday can be very effective when balancing output but on tube set up's of around 6 tubes or less it can become a little dominant giving the aquarium a yellow colour cast as mentioned. As sea water in a natural setting tends to filter out the yellow spectrum a home reef maybe left looking a little off colour. Zooxanthellae wont mind so this wont be to the detriment of your corals though.Obviously there will be personal taste involved, im not a lover of yellow light prefering a crisp white/blue.
The luminous flux of the Aquablue plus tube isnt too far behind the midday so in real terms there isnt a great gain to be had in using a midday over the Aquablue plus for output. As the midday is a yellow tube the temptation is to then balance this light with more lower output blue tubes such as the Actinic plus or pure and loosing any output advantage of the Midday tube.
Luminous flux examples 54w:
Midday 3500lm
Aquablue plus 3200lm
Aquapink 1800lm
Actinic plus 1150lm
Actinic pure 400lm
So in a 6 tube set up i would go with:
3 x Aquablue plus
2 x Actinic plus
1 x Aquapink
This would give best light output from a 6 tube set up with a crisp white/blue but offer enough blue/pink light for pop of reds and green.
Dropping an Aquablue plus for either an Actinic plus or a pure would give a more blue but at the detriment of a little output.
For set up's with 8 plus tubes a midday would become less dominant and easier to blend into the set up making it a useful tube to balance required output.
Hope this helps a little.
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