MH Bulb Replacement

[OCDP]

Originally Posted by b_james

I plan on ordering from J&L... What really frusterates me about the Coralife in addition to their short spectral life is some days (most days) the bulbs look realy yellow and other days they look very white almost to the point that I dont need to run my actinics. Anyone else experience the same problems with Coralife bulbs?

I never noticed that with my Coralife 10k's , but I never used them for more than two weeks. Mine too, were very yellow.. I couldn't stand them, got rid of them right away. I have since upgraded from 150w to a 250w Geiesmann pendant.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

I'm using Reeflux bulbs (10,000k) & very happy with them. Both DE & SE. Very white with hint of blue colour. Corals also colour up nicely under them & I don't bother with actinics anymore.

Anthony

[Quagmire]

My 250w coralife 10K is very yellow also.With 10K + actinics look the way I feel a 10K should look.Waiting for the LFS to get some new bulbs in.Ahhmmm Albert.

[Skimmerking]

megachrome bulbs man they are lots of money

[b_james]

Anyone try the Ushio 10K? Looks like all J&L have listed on their site are the Coralife and Ushio 150W HQI

[GMGQ]

I started out with Ushio 10K SE's. They were ok.

But then I got XM 10K SE's, and they were sooo much whiter (and cheaper).

Originally Posted by b_james

Anyone try the Ushio 10K? Looks like all J&L have listed on their site are the Coralife and Ushio 150W HQI

[b_james]

Well forget it.... why bother replace the bulbs when you can just replace the entire fixture

[kwirky]

J&L has geisseman 13000k bulbs. Same PAR as 10000k's without the yellow tinge.