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  1. wet9500

    wet9500 Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    And are they flexiable where you could adjust the height off of the water that they sit.
     
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  3. thepanfish

    thepanfish Flying Squid

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    Again, yes. The fixtures are bendy.
     
  4. wet9500

    wet9500 Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    Ok, Thanks. Now for my next question about them is which blue to white color combination do you use over your tanks for the best coral growth and most pleasing to the eye. Don't mean to sound like an idiot or anything but when I had gotten out of this hobby LED's weren't around yet and I had been needing a conversation like this to try and understand them better.
     
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    thepanfish Flying Squid

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    Best spectrum for coral growth is between 10-12k (2 royal blue 3 cool white) (2:1 white:blue), but that is very yellow and makes your tank looked washed out. What you would want as a best of both is 15k (1 royal blue, 1 cool white, 1 blue, 1 warm white) (about 1:1 white:blue) . Most pleasing to the eye and best coral color would be 20k (1:2 white:blue) (3 royal blue, 2 cool white)
     
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  6. tom.n.day

    tom.n.day Eyelash Blennie

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    They have plastic clamps that screw in( I used my fingers). The lamps I got were 3 royal blue 1 neutral white 1 cool white. They are plenty powerful and I like the way they look. I like that the "stems" are adjustable so you could spotlight a corral or something if you so desired
     
  7. wet9500

    wet9500 Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    10/4 thanks for the input deffinatly going to check into these somemore before deffinatly make mind up what I'm going to do.

    Thanks again