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Old 03-20-2006, 04:09 AM
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does anyone know of a good t-5 unit that is not to expensive, i am on a student bugdet. are the corallife t-5 anygood.
i have a 70 gallion 51"x20"x16"
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Old 03-20-2006, 04:17 AM
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The Coralife T5s are not HO, not any better than the standard strip light that came with your tank...

If you guys follow the European reef sites, they're changing out the bulbs every 6 months - just like PCs, VHO, etc - That gets expensive. Don't forget they've been using T5HO for years, it's just started to trickle over into the US/Canada, don't assume that the "years of bulb life" quoted takes into account color shifts etc.

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Old 02-18-2006, 11:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Quagmire
I found my T5s much better than my 175MH,But maybe thats because they are HO,and the 175 dosn't have a very good reflector.
I found a 100 watt light bulb better than my 175

but realy though I got almost as high of a par reading from my 36" PC's as I did from my 175. I personaly wouldn't recomend a 175 for anything.

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