Warning: Coralife Aqualight Advanced Hang-On 150w HQI

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by nazerine

The glass "uv guard" is/was still in place. On some other forums, users had made contact with coralife and they called it a splash guard only. Either way glass does filter uv, but it only covers half the bulb.

christyf5 what kind of bulbs did you use ?

I had the bulb it came with but it was too much light for my small nano. I ended up buying a cheap 20K bulb from ebay which worked fine for awhile (nice color too) but then I discovered I needed a chiller for the tank when it got warmer out. Eventually I went back to the PC fixture I had originally bought for the tank and sold the coralife unit.

[brizzo]

When I switched bulbs I made sure to cover my tank with aluminum screen, 12 layers, just to make sure everything was happy; but that didn't help at all. It probably slowed the cooking....

Here are links of other people having the same trouble, I just wish I found these earlier:

http://www.marinedepot.com/ps_ViewIt...vendor%3D.html
See 2 posts on customer reviews

http://www.bostonreefers.org/forums/...ad.php?t=36253
I seem to be in the exact boat as this guy

http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/inde...c=53462&st=120
See post #137, and lots more before that .. big thread

All I can say is after placing a sheet of 1/8" glass over my tank, everything has sprung back to life (I still have screen over the tank so the intensity is lowered and things may heal, and they are )

[nanoreefer]

hey nazerine i dont mean to go off topic but do you have your NC DX drilled or run a chiller on it? i have the same tank and iam planning on MH iam just scared about cooking the tank with the heat.

[OCDP]

Originally Posted by christyf5

I had the bulb it came with but it was too much light for my small nano. I ended up buying a cheap 20K bulb from ebay which worked fine for awhile (nice color too) but then I discovered I needed a chiller for the tank when it got warmer out. Eventually I went back to the PC fixture I had originally bought for the tank and sold the coralife unit.

Hey Christy, just curious.. when you switched to another bulb, did you notice any UV burning?? Just curious... seems like some do run into problems with bulbs other than Coralife, and other's don't ??

The last thing I need is UV spilling into my tank and my living room ahah.

[christyf5]

No I don't recall having any issues with the bulb at all. The tank was actually happier with the 20K than the 14K bulb it came with and no problems with excess UV leakage. The whole setup is fairly well protected as I do believe there was both a glass shield for the bulb as well as a piece of flat glass to protect the whole reflector and bulb/shield combo.