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Re: Kelvin options
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Susan Welenofsky wrote:
> What Kelvin are the bulbs at at the Indoor Sun Shop, and how much are they?
> I haven't seen much for 6500 K bulbs through eBay. I'm getting a 5,000 K
> bulb. Would you recommend something else, like 10,000 K?
5000 would be much better than 10,000 for a planted tank. 10,000 is
going to be very blue.
I run a mix of 5000 and 6700K bulbs in my aquarium. I don't use metal
halides though, just CF. The best CF bulbs that I've used are the 92
CRI 5000K 55w bulbs from ahsupply.com. They work well on tanks that
are a multiple of 24" wide.
I have the parts on order to switch my 60 gallon planted tank from 6
T8 36W bulbs to 2 96W compact flourescent bulbs. If anyone is
interested in some high quality ballasts for T8 bulbs let me know.
The bulbs that I have are way past their prime (although I think I
have two high-CRI 36" bulbs as spares somewhere), but the ballasts are
in good shape. They are about a year old, I bought them from Bulbman
down near the stadiums.
alex
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