Best 250W & 400W MOGUL BULB's ADVICE NEEDED ASAP!

[Rob&Gab]

im going to be purchasing a 250W bulb as well as a 400W bulb for our new fixture.

please all comments are welcomed and advice needed ASAP! thank you . !

please let me no the best BULBS to get for Growing SPS.

i no 20k Radiums are really good but witch one is the good one? there is a german one or something like this.

also with the 250W need some good bulb choices.


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Some of the 400W i hear are good?! let me know these are the links to them.

20k radium.
http://www.aquacave.com/radium-400w-...ogul-base.html

IWASAKI 400W, 6,500K
http://www.aquacave.com/iwasaki-400w-6-500k-metal-halide-bulb-mogul-base.html

USHIO 400W
http://www.aquacave.com/ushio-400w-metal-halide-bulb-mogul-base.html

REEFLUX 400W
http://www.aquacave.com/reeflux-400w-metal-halide-bulb-mogul-base.html


also for the 250W these are what i was looking at as well. LMK your thoughts.!

XM 250W
http://www.aquacave.com/xm-250w-metal-halide-bulb-mogul-base.html

REEFLUX 250W
ReefLux 250W Metal Halide Bulb, Mogul Base - AquaCave.com

RADIUM 250W, 20,000K
http://www.aquacave.com/radium-250w-...ogul-base.html

USHIO 250W
USHIO 250W Metal Halide Bulb, Mogul Base - AquaCave.com

IWASAKI 250W, 6,500K
Iwasaki 250W, 6,500K Metal Halide Bulb, Mogul Base - AquaCave.com

PHOENIX 250W 14,000K
http://www.aquacave.com/phoenix-250w...ogul-base.html

 

[Rob&Gab]

I will be purchasing BULBS TONIGHT so please let me no your thoughts on Bulbs .

i will be supplementing reefbright 36" silver version with a lumatek electronic ballast and 20" lumenBright pendants hanging 20" from the water level.

tank size is a 60G DB shallow 48x24x12. SPS Frags will be sitting 2-3" from the sandlevel 7" below the water level .

 

[Jaftica]

Get the radiums!

 

[Rob&Gab]

for the 250W as well? or just the 400W?

 

[Rob&Gab]

can you give me a little run down of whats so good about the radiums i know there good just like to hear from people that ran/run them.

 

[Jaftica]

Radiums when fired correctly, have really nice crisp white light with a hint of blue without washing the corals out, a lot of other 14, and 20k halides make the tank look like its full of windex, just way too blue

 

[Jaftica]

I have some 250 radiums if you wanna try em, to see if you like em

 

[Rob&Gab]

ill most deff like them . thank you allot.

 

[jackson6745]

Rob if you're gonna hang a halide 20" you might as well put a sun chair next to the tank so you can catch a wicked tan

 

[Alexm8856]

Let see some pix

 

[MIKE NY]

All depends on your personal preference.. many electronic ballasts will fire up radiums with effeciency, but are bluer ...IMO and many others they just look better fired up with a M80 HQI magnetic style ballast..they are that nice crisp white with a hint of blue that Rich wrote about...Im currently using old school magnetic M80 PFOs with T5 actinic supplements, but I just got a couple of new Hamilton magnetic M80 HQIs.

 

[bklynreef]

14K's grow corals as that's what sanjay joshi uses. 20k's are more for asthetices and color. I ran both ( not at the same time) with super blue T5 actinics and both are nice but the 14K are brighter and better growers.

 

[prattreef]

Ushio 14k are the least blue 14k and were always my favorite lamp. I ran the 250w with reefbrite supplements for years. Sanjay was a committed 400w Ushio guy. The Radium run on the proper ballast as described above is also a very nice lamp and probably a little more in line with todays bluer aesthetic. Both are excellent choices and grow coral extremely well.

 

[Rob&Gab]

Thanks allot for the info guys!

My bulbs come tomorrow in the mail I ordered the 250w radiums gonna be ran on a lunate I ballast with 2 lumen right reflectors mogul socket.

Also got a free 400w radium from aquacave . They hooked me up .

Bkny ill be hitting you up for those bulbs I. A week or so. Planing on switching if I don't like the growth. I've ran 14k before but gonna try these out on the new fixture and ballasts I bought .

Thanks allot for all the PMS and help for my choice of picking. Can't wait to fire me up in a few weeks or sooner depending on how fast we are upgrading the tank we have .