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Old 09/26/2007, 10:58 PM
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An Ice Cap T5 system will provide more PAR than a lot of 250 watt halides, Especially if you have a blue halide lamp. The blue T5 lamps produce about 10~15% less PAR than the daylights. The blue halides don't come close to the 10K's. They wont out do a good halide system like Lumenarc/Lumenmax style reflectors with good ballasts and 10K lamps but they will hang with or beat the average systems.

Of course when your tank doubles as a swimming pool (Del) you almost gotta use halides.
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