LF - 250W MH DE bulbs

[reefme]

Looking for 2 250W 1400K MH DE bulbs.
Please PM with brand and price.
Thanks

[Vitaminz]

I ordered my online via Ebay, they are dirty cheap and work very well.
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/290587608061?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

Have a look, about to place an order for some spares, if you wanted to go in and save a little bit on shipping.

Jeff

[reefme]

PM'd

[globaldesigns]

I have a question about the ebay cheapies... Anyone compared these types of bulbs with ones like Pheonix, XM or Ushio? Is paying alot more worth it?

[Abe]

I have 2 brand new ones 10000k PM me if you are interested.

[Vitaminz]

I wish I had a par meter, would love to compair the two. Use to only run Blue Life SPS bulbs and the $90+ price tag per bulb. And then I saw the ebay ones, and I thought $9 plus shipping a bulb was well worth the risk!! Only took a little over 2 weeks to ship them, and when I put them in, they fired right up and very happy with the results. Tank now looks a little on the purple side for my liking, but the corals seems to love them, both the softies and the SPS. So now I am going to place another order for 2 spare bulbs because of the leed time to get them, and replace the bulbs every 6 months. Just my 2 cents worth, but in the end if the corals are happy and growing, think it was well worth the risk for the savings to the good old pocket book.

Jeff

[dreef]

I just ordered a few for next years bulb change.What the heck ..beats 78 bucks a piece for xm's.

[George]

I have a question about the ebay cheapies... Anyone compared these types of bulbs with ones like Pheonix, XM or Ushio? Is paying alot more worth it?

I did a test with a par meter comparing ebay bulb 15K 250W (artemis?) with a 10K XM 250W. They had similar par at the beginning of life cycle. It was over 6 months ago. I need to re-test them.
Do a search in equipment forum and you shall find my thread.

[globaldesigns]

hmmm. I may have to look at this myself. For the price probably worth the risk.