T5 Lighting for a 120

Spine · Post by **Spine** » Wed May 23, 2007 9:37 pm

Is there anyplace locally that has T5 end caps?

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Wed May 23, 2007 10:15 pm

Call Exotic Aquatics. Sometimes they have stuff like that. Otherwise, you might thumb the yellow pages for specialty lighting stores.

Spine · Post by **Spine** » Thu May 24, 2007 2:47 pm

Aaron,
I picked up 6 bulbs from work yesterday. My boss got me whatever or supplier had instock. I ended up with 2(18000k) and 4(6700k) T5 bulbs. Is there a optimal kelvin degree for plants? What combination would you run, with the type of bulbs that I have.

Post by **krisw** » Thu May 24, 2007 2:58 pm

Those bulbs should work fine. Any combination should grow plants, but your eye might find a mixture of half 18000k and half 6700k more pleasing...

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Thu May 24, 2007 4:25 pm

Are you running all six bulbs? I would run 3 6,700s and 1 18,000 bulb if you run four.

Spine · Post by **Spine** » Thu May 24, 2007 4:54 pm

I am going to run 4 bulbs on the 120 and the other 2bulbs will light a tank next to it.

T5 Lighting for a 120

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