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 ------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please send mail to majordomo@thekrib.com with "Unsubscribe gsas-member" in the body of the message. Archives of this list can be found at http://lists.thekrib.com/gsas-member/