Old halide bulbs for coral

ReefWreak · #1 11/11/2007, 10:02 PM

I'm looking for your:

1 or so year old 20k DE 150w halide bulb
1 or so year old 10k or 20k(preferably XM) halide bulb 250w SE.

I'm willing to trade corals for them. Just let me know what you're looking for.

Thanks!

Eric

gasman059 · #2 11/12/2007, 07:19 AM

Eric lemme check on the equipment junkyard. i used to run se sm's 250 in a previous tank.

If not I beleive one of my good friends has some from a previous tank-and he will give u a great deal.

volunteerguy · #3 11/12/2007, 08:11 AM

I have a couple old phoenix 250 MH 14 k...I may have a couple of 10k laying around as well, double ended. Will look tonight.

gasman059 · #4 11/12/2007, 09:27 AM

http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...readid=1248661

ReefWreak · #5 11/12/2007, 09:38 AM

Thanks for checking for me guys.

It's not that I need new bulbs (I do want to replace my 14k with 10k and return the previous glorious growth that the tank had), but it's more that I was in the LFS Saturday, and overheard someone talking. He was complaining that it was almost time to change out his bulbs in his halide lighting fixture. They were almost a year old. The thing that got me is that I was reading recently in ReefKeeper that bulbs don't really lose much intensity/life between 3 months old and 3 years old. The biggest drops are in the first like 90 days, then the loss curve flattens out more or less. I figured all these people who are replacing bulbs every year really are not replacing on the right schedule to be productive about it. So if you swap out every year, I'll be happy to take those bulbs off your hands, and ride out that 65% intensity to 60% intensity curve for the remaining 2 years on that bulb

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2007-04/ac/index.php

volunteerguy · #6 12/31/2007, 08:58 PM

Eric...just found 2 year old 150W 14k SE if you're interested...let me know before I toss em out in my garage cleanup.

mrbncal · #7 12/31/2007, 09:05 PM

bummer your so far away ...i have a year old XM 20K 150watt de bulb I'd swap out to ya for a frag.

currentking · #8 01/01/2008, 12:28 AM

I have a couple 150w 20k bulbs that are a out a year old

ReefWreak · #9 01/01/2008, 06:58 PM

If you want some frags for them, let me know, I would be happy to trade frags for it. I'm just interested in seeing how a 20k would look on my 24g nano. Granted it would just end up growing more algae in there.