The Better Actinic Bulb

[Tigger]

Thanks for everybody's input.

From looking at the light spectrum on J&L's webpage, the coralife super actinic has a much wider spectrum than the Phillips O3. Is the wider spectrum better?

I am using the Phillips O3 bulbs currently, and the reason I am looking to switch is that there is a drastic decrease in the bulb after only a month. I thought maybe another bulb would last longer. Maybe it is the way I wired the bulbs. I bought a Phillips 4 Bulb T8 electronic balast. I wired 2 leads to each bulb, in hopes to overdrive 2 T12 Phillip O3 bulbs. Does anybody see a problem with this?

Victor, do you remember how much the bulbs are? Maybe it would be better to run 3-4 T8 actinics with my electronic ballas. Or do you think it would be better to overdrive the 2 T8 actinic bulbs?

Thanks again
Steve