New 14k (SPS)Bulb

Discussion in 'Metal Halide Aquarium Lighting' started by omard, Dec 24, 2007.

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  1. Iraf

    Iraf Snowflake Eel

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    um, every 10k MH bulb I've ever seen has been a yellowish tint, thats part of 10k and why few people use them, those that do usually have a lot of actinic lighting to go along with to overcome the yellow washout
     
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  3. Daniel072

    Daniel072 Giant Squid

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    You call it a yellow washout iraf but wouldn't you agree that it makes the true color of the coral come out. Since 10k is closer to the natural spectrum of the sun??
     
  4. reef_guru

    reef_guru Humpback Whale

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    actually 5500k-6700k is at the surface, then, depending on the depth the natural sun lights k value changes, and not all 10k bulbs are actually 10k.
     
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  5. Daniel072

    Daniel072 Giant Squid

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    correct most are more like 8k
     
  6. Tangster

    Tangster 3reef Sponsor

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    Oh really? What's your store's contact info because if you can sell them for less than I do, you must be getting a special price and I'd like to buy a case from you.
     
  7. Otty

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    That's what I figured.

    Do you pray to the manhatten reef gods at night. Seems like all you know comes from this one person. Heck JohnO had hundreds of people wanting to buy monkey piss cause he worded it right online :-/

    Oopps....the next quote will retract that

    Here is the back pedal....;D
     
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  9. Daniel072

    Daniel072 Giant Squid

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    I said 10k bulbs are closer to the suns actual spectrum than your junk 14k sps bulbs that is ripping you off on. I also get alot of my info from reefcentral and the reeftank where people who know what they are talking about like mr. bob fenner and randy post. Most of the people on here don't speak from experience. They spend their time googling and just pick the first answer they find not giving a crap if it screws up another guys tank. because of that post otty, i will not be posting here again nor will I support any 3 reef sponsors.
     
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  10. ZachB

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    Dang, Otty goin to town with a tomahawk. Hah.
     
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  11. Daniel072

    Daniel072 Giant Squid

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    by the way otty your tank looks like junk for the amount of money you dump into it.
     
  12. Otty

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    Nice of you to stop by and see it.
     
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