Edmonton reef get-together in December?

[Quinn]

You'd need a mogul (socket), the wires (I expect these came with the ballast; ground, positive, and negative I believe), and if you're not buying a reflector, you'll need a mount for the mogul (these came with my reflectors). If you get that scraped together I'm sure there will be enough of us there to figure it out. I did my own wiring, as did Jesse and Bev as far as I know, and probably others. The bulbs your friend offered you are probably very low Kelvin and as such will be rather yellow. If you're not supplementing with actinics I think most here would agree to go with a 10k bulb. You could order one of these from Venki. If you're not doing a pendant you will need to have a canopy you can mount your lighting setup in. On that note, Tony had a halide bulb in some type of galvanized pan that looked like it was meant for baking bread or something - it served as a pendant over an anemone tank quite well for him.