10 or 14k?

Lighting is such a personal thing.  I think your corals will like either the 10K or 14K bulbs, so it's going to come down to what your eye's like.  Visiting other people's tanks is a very good way to get an idea of what your tank might look like.

Personally, I didn't like the Hamilton 14K bulbs when on my tank (but do go look at Corey's tank, it's the reason I tried the 14Ks in the first place... his tank looks awesome!).  I'm still a fan of 10K bulbs.

Here is my sacrophyton

14K

10K without Supplemental lighting

10K with actinic supplement

A side note to all of this is that the camera greatly overexagerated the blue.  To the naked eye the favia is only tinted blue.  I couldn't get the blue out without manipulating the file through imaging software.

The sacrophyton pictures better resemble the look of the tank.  The 14K's are still not as tinted blue as in the pic but there is a bluish 'feel' to everything in the tank.  And to me everything seemed to fluoresce to much...everything glowed.  I wanted a more realistic feel and think the 10K's do it.

In the pictures labeled 10K's in both posts...that is the true look of the tank.

I should be getting my 10K's from Steve next week and if that happens I can give you (at the meeting) both my hamilton 14K's and Shane's 10K's to try out for yourself.  Or you could stop by and pick them up.

John