175w SE Hamilton 10k to 175w SE Iwasaki 14k

[marie]

Do you have much red colour (red coralline or corals) in your tank? Do they show up as the colour red or do they get washed out.


I am on a quest for a metal halide bulb that will show colours like a vho bulb will and I'm not having any luck

[EmilyB]

Originally Posted by marie

Do you have much red colour (red coralline or corals) in your tank? Do they show up as the colour red or do they get washed out.


I am on a quest for a metal halide bulb that will show colours like a vho bulb will and I'm not having any luck

Yes, and it's all GOOD !! Check out the ballast recommends.

[Doug]

Originally Posted by marie

Do you have much red colour (red coralline or corals) I am on a quest for a metal halide bulb that will show colours like a vho bulb will and I'm not having any luck

Marie, my friend has been on the same quest since selling his vho,s several years ago. After running 14K 400w bulbs for a year, he went to all T-5,s. Just recently he chucked his T-5,s completely. Figures his tank has never looked good since the switch from halides and its all soft corals & huge leathers.

He just put a pair of SA, 14K, 400,s back on. Likes the look but still not the same as the vho look. He is thinking of adding a pair of vho actinics. From our running of T-5 actinics, just not the same as the vho actinics.

I just dont thing the same colour can be reproduced by anything else. I would think, {not using} , that the Iwasaki 14K would be a similar light to the Ushio 10K. My SA 14K,s {175w}, have a nice bluer look but not the same as vho nor my T-5,s.

[EmilyB]

Yes, I am running VHO's with it, so that helps with the colors as well.

[Maverick]

Deb,

Where did you get your Isawaki's from ?

Brent

[EmilyB]

From Premium Aquatics Brent.

[Doug]

So, , either of you still running the 175 Iwasaki bulbs?

[Delphinus]

Yep. I don't wanna count the # of months on it now. Still going strong though, and I'll probably replace it with another.

I see Iwasaki has a 14k DE now in the 250W size. I might try that for my ritteri tank (250W DE over that one). Currently using a Ushio 14k on that one.