WTB: Lighting and Tanks (Okanagan)

[mseepman]

Excellent thanks for the info.

[Starry]

http://www.betterthannature.com/

[Myka]

Originally Posted by mr_alberta

I should have a 36" 4-bulb Tek Light in black for sale in about a month or so. Bulbs are Giesmann (2 actinic +, 1 Actinic blue, 1 midday iirc). Unit and bulbs are about a year old now and I'm still getting nice colors and growth out of my LPS/Softies.

Send me a PM when you're ready to sell!

Those Sun Blasters must be NO T5s, not HO T5s....???

[Okguy]

Hi Myka sorry to hijack the thread but it is also a free BUMP.

Originally Posted by mseepman

Myka,

AJ's is selling a T5HO fixture that you can daisy chain together. Comes in 24, 36, or 48" lengths and includes ballast. They are CHEAP. They don't include reflectors but they do include a cheap 6700k bulb. I modded one onto my coralife fixture with a Hagen GLO reflector. Added a Giesman bulb and it works to add some par. They are called SunBlasters and look just like the ones called SUN BLAZE shown here...http://www.prairiereefsupplies.ca/index.php?id=95

Mark you managed to upgrade the lighting. I would be curious to see how you pulled it off... I'm sure several here would be... You should post a thread on how you did it.

[mseepman]

Myka, the Sunblasters are actually HOT5's. I've replaced the stock 6700k bulb with first a 10,000k 39w and then an Aqua Blue+. I have a Fiji Purple on the way for it since I'm still disapointed in the color of my light with a 10k MH and the lousy PC Actinics from Coralife.

Originally Posted by Myka

Send me a PM when you're ready to sell!

Those Sun Blasters must be NO T5s, not HO T5s....???

[Myka]

Anyone have a light meter? I have a hard time believing these SunBlasters aren't a waste of money...

[mseepman]

Haha...well I don't know what to tell you. They don't come with a reflector as they are aimed at the hydroponic industry but reflectors are available as I showed you with the link to Prairie Reef.

I don't like how I've had to set them up, but they sure have brightened up my tank and that's just one 39W.

[Myka]

No reflectors? LOL! Hmm...I wonder if there's enough room to clip on the Tek reflectors...? Anyone tried? I tried putting the Tek reflectors on a GLO unit, and they didn't fit.

[mr_alberta]

Those Sunblaze strip lights look like the old Helio T5 fixtures...

[mseepman]

Myka,

The lights look just like the ones that they call Sun Blaze...http://www.prairiereefsupplies.ca/index.php?id=95

If they fit in that reflector, they would be a steal. I run them with a butchered GLO reflector (1/2 of one actually) and plan to order a reflector from Prairie Reef when Gools makes his next order from there (fairly regularly as I understand it). I guess the best thing I can say is that I would buy them again.