Well, it might be irrelevant anyway, the iwasaki's don't make a 175 watt
6500K bulb. I do believe that coralife makes one, but then it's a coralife.
:(
Derek
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Shane Clays" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 5:38 PM
Subject: RE: MH Bulb
> Thanks for the offer, but I only have 175w ballasts... want to go 6500
> because they have a higher PAR rating. I have seen tanks with them vs 10k
> and although the look of the tank was better, the color of the corals was
> much better under the lower kevlin bulbs. I saw a guy with 55 k MHs on his
> tank along with 6 VHO Actinics and his corals looked absolutely beautiful.
> Very colorful. He had gone from 10k to these, for the same reason and said
> he will never go back. I took some of his frags home, but em in my tank
> (about 1 month ago) and they are starting to loose color. I wanted to
> expirement with the 65k and see if a higher par rating would bring the
color
> of the corals back and actually, I have a 55k coming just to put it in and
> see what it does over a couple of months (I expect the tank to look nasty,
> but want to see if the corals color up) and then go to 65ks and see what
> happens there. Also, I am thinking of running the one 55k and then adding
> the 65k along with it and 4 vho actinics....
>
> Thoughts??
>
> Shane
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Fish [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 2:58 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: MH Bulb
>
> Shane, why switch from the 10k? I just went the other way and don't
> think
> I'll ever go back. The color is soooo much better (imho). I'd send
> you my
> 6500k to try, but it's a 250.
>
> -Mike
>
>
> >From: Shane Clays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: MH Bulb
> >Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:16:07 -0700
> >
> >All,
> >Thinking about the purchase of a new 175 watt MH bulb. Looking at
> going
> >from
> >a 10k to a 6500k bulb. Anyone have any specific brands that they
> recommend
> >for a 175 watt 6500k MH bulb???
> >
> >TIA
> >
> >Shane C.
>
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