Kate,
That is a fantastic painting.....I can understand you desire for an art studio
with talent like that!!! Very pretty!!!
Clay
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From: Kate Breimayer [mailto:kate@munat.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 5:06 PM
To: gsas-member@thekrib.com
Subject: Re: Kelvin options
I know what you mean, I put the cheapo H. Despot bulbs over two tanks
and the plants did great, grew water lettuce like you would not believe
for indoors and the plants below it looked great, with no algae in that
tank at all. Another tank had the screw in bulbs in clamplights with the
clamps removed (get the kind with ventilation holes in the aluminum dome
and the bulbs that are ok for enclosed fixtures) and placed them face
down right on the glass like spotlights. They grew nice red plants. They
petered out after a little over a year and I moved them to regular in
house fixtures. They did look yellowish but worked great and still have
many years service for the bathroom or whatever, which is more than I
can say for all the useless leftover 4 foot flourescent bulbs I am
accumulating. Guess they will work in my art studio whenever I get that
set up. :)
So when I replaced the cheap yellow bulbs I went after the new full
spectrum bulbs at H Despot, which were individually packaged and placed
right up next to the Ott lights. They are cold white which is no real
improvement over yellow, and they grow nothing but algae! But boy do
they grow algae... I am going to have to move them to the algaescape
aquarium where they can get some use. Just kidding, I can't think of any
use for them except maybe over the amano shrimp tank. So it's back to
cheapo bulk screw in compact flourescent for me.
Want to see what I need an art studio for?
http://www.fotolog.net/electrokate/?photo_id=3312269
Kate B
Oly WA
Hess, Clay A wrote:
After having set up my 100 gallon plant tank with half CF's (5000K 55W
bulbs) and half CF (the typical 22W {I think they are 22W} spiral bulbs
from Home Depot) I have found that my plants seem to do better on the
Home Depot bulbs and they are a lot cheaper to use (at least half as
much as what I paid for the CF's from AHSupply). I am curious if
anyone else has had experience using both bulb types and what their
results have been. The fish sure look better under the AHSupply bulbs,
but, the plants do not seem to do as well. Anyone else played around
with the Home Depot style bulbs? Anyone know what the Technical term
is for the bulbs from Home Depot ~~laughing at my lack of knowledge
here~~?
-----Original Message-----
From: alex wetmore [mailto:alex@phred.org]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 12:30 PM
To: gsas-member@thekrib.com
Subject: 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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