Radium metal halide bulbs will not be produced anymore!

[maroun.c]

We agree with you 100% and for that reason we decided to continue offering the same quality Metal Halide bulbs. I will take this opportunity to answer some of the questions and comments we have seen about our brand. As many of you know, Hamilton is currently closed (unknown if it will open in the future). Dave and I (Alejandra) have been in this hobby for over 24 years and know the importance of Metal Halide bulbs to the proper growth of corals. We believe in the quality and spectrum of the bulbs to be some of the best in the hobby and wanted to continue offering them, even when many might say the hobby is dying, but as I said, "Only if we let it". We will be working on providing not only bulbs but also complete systems in the near future. If any of you have any suggestions to what products you would like us to bring back, feel free to let us know.

We received our first batch of bulbs under our new brand and there are more coming soon!
It takes a lot of effort to start from scratch, but we believe in what we do and hope to continue to receive your support!

Thanks for posting here.
I have just received 6 of your bulbs while on a trip to US and Dave was very helpful and accommodating to match my schedule. So plus one on the customer service and looking forward to try them soon.

 

[SaracensRugby]

Radium vs Reefbrite 20k 400w bulbs
It seems like not many people are running the Reefbrite bulbs. Is there a reason? They seem to have good customer service when there are issues. I am currently running 400w Radiums on my display tank. With the availability questions and increased cost of the Radiums, I was looking for a replacement. I picked up a few of the 20k 400w Reefbrite bulbs to try. The color is pretty comparable to my eye.
Does anybody have some hard data on these two bulb choices like a spectral graph, par output, heat production (the Radiums run hot)? How long will the Reefbrite bulbs run vs the Radiums?

Paul

Hey Paul,
I am running a 72" Giessman Spectra fixture, that holds 3 MH bulbs. Right now I have 2 RB 250w and 1 Radium 250w, 20k bulbs. While both say they are 20k, the Radium is located in the middle section of the fixture, and is much bluer to the eye. As in not even close. I know you asked about 400w bulbs, but thought I would share my experience with RB and radium 250w, 20k bulbs. I am going to buy more radiums at the website shared, even though they are twice the cost of the RB when they are on sale.

 

[Reefering1]

Thanks for posting here.
I have just received 6 of your bulbs while on a trip to US and Dave was very helpful and accommodating to match my schedule. So plus one on the customer service and looking forward to try them soon.

Have you installed those aquabright bulbs yet?

 

[Brent Bohannon]

We have a Reefer 250 and 1000. Long story short, wife and I had the 250 rolling with Clams/SPS/LPS/Softies and our then 3 year son, now 5, decided to "feed" the tank. All gone. We kept the fish alive and are now rebooting the coral. The 1000 never got off the ground because we lost all the feeder coral so it houses a pair of maroons. The 250 had two Radion XR15's but we just added a t5 hybrid. We liked that so much I ordered two 24" t5 hybrids for the 1000 that has three XR30's. We still have room to add a MH in the middle and would like to try that as well. We are looking at the reefbrite adjustable ballast 175/250/400 SE. (Side note, reefbrite's website states that the 400 w bulb is not part of the selectable ballast but this product page says it is. Not sure how that works.) We're thinking we could start out with a 175 from aquabright and move up as necessary. Our plan is to move one of the XR 30's to the 250 and keep two on the 1000 with eight 24" t5 and one MH. We want to be able to keep anything she desires. Any suggestions would be great. We have a par meter so we can do all the checking for coral placement.

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