I think you have to contact Giesemann for it.Can you still buy Spectras ? i tried to find a fixture but came up empty...in Canada
kick myself for not buying the last 24” fixture BRS had, last year
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I think you have to contact Giesemann for it.Can you still buy Spectras ? i tried to find a fixture but came up empty...in Canada
kick myself for not buying the last 24” fixture BRS had, last year
I have reef keeping since 2002. Have tried 250 ushio over 90 with vho. I could grow anyhting from sps to clams etc. Down sized when moved to pa. Running t5 over 40b tank. Could grow anything. Last few years tried sone lower end leds. Was not impressed enought to dropp 2300.00 on a fixture. The cost savings is not really there.You’re not wrong. The best colors I’ve seen are typically in led tanks. I know that other mh purists won’t agree. Just what my eyes judge. I just can’t get behind the cost of entry on quality led units. I won’t buy a used one because the condition cannot be verified. The whole “but they’ll pay themselves off” bit does nothing for me. I pay $100 a year in bulbs and the difference in electricity would be about $10 a month doing the math. It would take close to a decade to pay for itself if I switched. Just not in the kind of tax bracket I can drop $2500 for a mostly lateral move.
Yeah, they aren't available in US either, but I think part of the problem is related to COVID. Other people have imported the Spectra to US.Can you still buy Spectras ? i tried to find a fixture but came up empty...in Canada
kick myself for not buying the last 24” fixture BRS had, last year
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That's probably because they are also going back to halides in EU.I don't know if it's been discontinued but stock is low:
That's probably because they are also going back to halides in EU.
I thought the e ballasts do a pretty good job with hqi on a overdrive setting?I ran my 8 bulb ati at 8hrs on my 120 4b+ 4c+.
They were 4" off the surface.
When I hung the 2 250 watt 14k phoenix ober my tank I just ran them the same 8hrs.
Fixture is 12" off the surface and 14" from bulb to surface.
If the bulb is double ended you need the m80 hqi ballast from hamilton to drive the bulb to max.
You're not going to be able to run the T5s separately (2 now and then 2 later). All 4 T5s came ON and OFF at the same time, unless the fixture was properly modified.Well thanks to a generous member of this forum i have a 24” Infiniti on the way to me! It has a Phoenix bulb included. Im planning to run B+ T5 bulbs, or a B+ and C+ combo. This is going over my Lagoon 50 thats 30x24x16. Right now i have a 6 bulb ATI hanging over it. I was thinking of picking up the Icecap selectable 250w e ballast for it. Would the SuperLumens mode drive the bulb at roughly the correct wattage? Also, how high should i hang this thing to start? I dont want to bleach my frags! Currently my ATI runs 2 bulbs for an hour, then all 6 for 8 hours, then back down to 2 bulbs for an hour before shutting down. How do i transition to the MH?
Please post pictures!! What fixture do you have. Thanks!I have a 175 gallon Bow front that I have a MH/T5 combo light system that sits about 6 inches off the water due to canopy. I have 3 - 250w 14kphenix bulbs and 4 t5 39 watt bulbs. I run 2 ATI Blue Plus and 2 Coral plus. I run the t5 for an hour then I run everything for 6hrs then run the t5 by themselves for last hour. Have had this fixture for at least 8 years and the corals (mainly sps) are doing great.
What’s impressive? LolImpressive!
LEDs don’t suck. They’re great if you program them right.I've always used halides tried leds but they sucked for me went back to halides people wonder how I get my torches so long and stringy all I can say is halides and colors definitely change under halides
No problem. We have to choose what we like the most. I'm using the Hamilton 14K right now, coming from the Ushio 14K. Very little difference betwen the 2. Before the Ushio 14K I used the Hamilton 20K, and prior to that I had the Radium. I love all of them!! LOL!Tonight I switched the Phoenix bulbs back in . They are just more beautiful. The yellow of the ushio bulbs gets me down. The corals are not going to like switching around, but they will get over it . Thx for the reply.