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The first link I posted that is.

Sorry if the above comes across as rude; I just don't have any experience with 6 lamp setups and I don't want to steer you wrong.

I should also add; I used Giesemann lamps for a while when I couldn't get ATI lamps locally.
IIRC, I did 2x aquablue, 2x pure actinic, 1 midday. Looked very similar to the original ATI setup.

Check the link, Grim has suggestions for various fixtures. If yours is not listed, follow one of the other 6 lamp fixtures.

I run 14k mh and antinic t5. I love the look. Ice white is the best way I can explain it

So what combo in what order would you recommend for a 6 bulb setup?

Here's a link to the old combo:

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...384575&page=21

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http://home.comcast.net/~stevelarsen00/site/?/home/

All you need to know.

As you have surmised, those Coralife bulbs are less than ideal.
I've used all ATI lamps in my Aquactinics TX5 5 lamp setup in the following combination;
2x blue +, 2 blue special, 1 procolor(not made anymore): really liked this combo, was a nice bright white with all 5 and a good blue with just the blue +

My current combo is....lemme go look....2 blue +, 2 true actinics, 1 aquablue; again all ATI lamps. This one is nice and bright white when all are running, and purple with just the actinics.
If you look in my blog you'll see pics of this combo.

found the instructions for it online, seems i have to set it using some type of color under than lighting and it will "automatically" adjust in manual mode? i dunno, lol

Nikon CoolPix L100

awesome article I really appreciate that link, I will try and finish reading it when I get a chance (a little too busy at work for a change today) I am still waiting on a response from my wife since she is at home with the camera to tell me the make and model I had remember someone mentioning white balance options before and looked all over my camera settings and could not find it at all assuming my camera even has that option. When that camera was purchased I didn't even have a reef tank so that was not at all one of my considerations

Cyano - I HIGHLY recommend using custom white balance. I read a post on here the other day suggesting it among other useful things, and it made all the difference in the world. Here's the link:

http://www.reefaddicts.com/content.p...nk-Photography

i believe it's a cannon, I will have to ask my wife for the information on it since i am at work now, i will try and get that info in the next few hours

What camera and lens are you shooting with?

the last three shots are three different settings from less light to more light before it becomes so bright it's a horrible picture, so more less, or middle?

I use seachem reef and have been happy with it when mixed at 1.026 everything has checked out good. IO is fish only stuff imo tho I have heard about mixing it 50/50 with another salt with good results but that seem like a pita to me

thnx for the advice everyone, I ended up getting a yellow tang and going with that gamble, it is doing well eating aggressively everything i drop in the tank including dried nori. I have been picking the caulerpa by hand when ever it gets tall enough to grab, I have also changed salt along with quite a few water changes and the good news is that with the new salt my lps corals are starting to show some noticeable improvements with the seachem reef over the old instant ocean I had been using for the last year.

You can try smaller ones, even moving the zoas to a different holding tank for a duration perhaps.

Picking it out by hand is no fun, but something you can do.

thanks for the advice melev, I am deathly afraid of emerald crabs though I have had 3 over the years 2 of them I remember watching sword fight each other using zoos, the other came as an accident on a piece of lr and he went into my sump never to be heard from again

Rip out all you can manage by hand, daily. Once it is vastly reduced, add a bunch of new hungry emerald crabs to your tank and you may have the same remarkable results I had in my angled tank. I added them to get rid of valonia but they liked the caulerpa as well.

thats close, I haven't pulled it out and gazed at it, but that looks close to it, i know there are many different species that look very similar with caulerpa so i may be a species off but thats basically it

does look like it