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Old 09-20-2006, 07:00 PM   #1
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brand of bulbs


We bought our tank used and it has the following lights:

2- 96 watt 10,000 daylight
2- 96 watt 50/50
2- 96 watt 420nm actinic
Moon lights

All are currently coralife.

We are going to buy spare bulbs so we have them when we need them. I noticed that coralife brand is more expensive than the rest. Is it worth the money? Or is sunpaq or another no name brand just as good?

Right now our corals are all growing like crazy...even the LPS and SPS corals. (our tank is only 21 inches deep) It is a 125gallon AGA with LPS, SPS and softies. All corals look great right now and I don't want to go with cheaper bulbs and have the corals go downhill. But if they are all the same.

Does anyone have any other lighting combo suggestions within our setup? (3 rows of 2 sets of compact florescent bulbs, 96 watt each) The tank is 72 inches in length.

Thanks!
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Old 09-20-2006, 08:57 PM   #2
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If all is well and you like it then stay with those bulbs....

reeftanklighting.com has some good bulb prices you can replace these with. Any brand will be OK

They have great customer support as well and they are a TRT sponser!
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Old 09-20-2006, 09:36 PM   #3
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different manufacturers bulbs will look different even if labeled as the same K. a Coralife 10K will look different than a Sunpaq 10K.

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