Lighting
now we're thinking down the same lines. although i have not priced them out or even seen them, i understand that the MV ballasts are actually cheaper than MH ballasts. now i didn't know this when i set up the first two MH on our tank, and when i added the third i couldn't be bothered to root into it, but if i had to do it all from scratch i would look very carefully at using MV ballasts. and i'm pretty certain you would find those 6500k non R bulbs all over the place...
take a drive by UVIC at night when the sports fields are lit up! as soon as you see the colour of that light you know for certain they are 5500 or better - actually when i look right at the light group i can see some are burning quite bluer than others, so i expect it is a combo of 5500/6500k.
PLEASE TO ALL -- do not go phoning the University firing a bunch of questions at them. i have spent the last week narrowing down who is responsible for stocking those lamps and am hoping we as a club can piggyback orders onto theirs. i have let the cat out of the bag prematurely on this i know, but PLEASE GIVE ME SOME TIME and i will let you all know how i make out. it bugs the **** out of me everytime i go to albrite now and their prices are 50% higher than two years ago on items that they know reefers are after! some time ago this was brought up by someone (troy?) and i said this was happening at albrite if we didn't organize ourselves -- i don't even bother with albrite now, i can get most things cheaper elsewhere! anyway, off topic but important to say.
shane
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