[tubs]

There was a post earlier that had a link to a site that sells 175w MH bulbs for less than $20 but couldn't find it. Kelvin is not important because it is going to a sump.

Does anyone have links to any online retailer selling 175 watt MHs at this price range.

TIA,

[Ltspd]

Lowes or Home Depot

[tubs]

Thanx,

I checked HD and the price was in the range of 30 which is pretty darn good considering aquarium prices but I do recall a recent post (not sure if it was here) that listed the price at less than 15.

Anyone else?

TIA

[newreefman1]

Unless you are lighting a reef, the home depot bulbs are NOT for aquarium use. They have a spectrum of generally 4400k. Sometimes less. Generally not more.
This is far too red and is not the proper spectrum for corals, regardless of actinic supplementation. If you are going to do lighting....do it right and not jerry rigged. There are great deals out there for other systems where you wont have to bust your whole wallet. I just got a 4 x 110 watt system with reflector/water prrof endcaps etc for 225 shipped from lampsnow.com

Just go looking. Home depot is great for some things.Lighting is not one of them.

[tubs]

Jason,

I did mention that it is going to the sump which doubles as a refugium for which 4K would be perfectly fine.

There are no jerry rigs on my system if you take a look at it on my website and by no means have I skimped on critical equipment. I'm not looking for a whole new setup costing a couple hundred bucks, just a replacement bulb for my current 10K 175W AB. It does not make any sense to spend another 75 bucks to light my sump/refugium. Besides, high output flourescents just haven't given me comparible results for what I want to do.

[newreefman1]

oops.
A) I wrote unless you are lighting a reef. Should have been refugium.
B) I missed the sump part and agree you should spend no extra on sump lighting.

My apologies.

[PerryinCA]

Here ya go John, 13.88 fro the 175w. If this place doesn't work for ya, let me know, I have a couple others I could send ya to, but I have heard this place is pretty good.

http://www.bulbsa2z.com/shopping/sho...d+Metal+Halide


Seeya,

Perry

[icemark]

Yeah I have bought stuff from them before and was treated quite well

[tubs]

Hey thanx a lot guys. Really appreciate it after I spent a bit of time searching the various boards and couldn't find that particular post.

Perry I still owe you some more pics of your other corals. I did realize that one of the large colonies you have is gemmifera as it is looking more and more like the one I have.

Chow,