HydroFarm 24" T5 lights and Footcandles

[Gold3nku5h]

I went straight half and half with my 2' T5's. I have 6 bulbs on 3 different ballasts that are going to be setup to turn on in order every 3 hours and then reverse that at night. I also have a moonlighting effect because this is really going to be a paludarium which i will eventually get some animals in. Its a 40 gallon breeder, and i think i went overkill with the lighting system, but i built it myself and am very happy with it. I am thinking on keeping 1 set of lights strictly for emergency lighting if needed. Who knows, but i dont have anything growing under them yet as im about to start building a stand for the tank. Im running the same lighting three 6400K and three 3000K. Also have gren and blue LED's for moonlighting, not sure what ones im going to go with, as green wont interupt photoperiod, and blue looks alot cooler than green, more scarry looking is what im going for, but then its photosynthesisable which can interupt its "night"??!