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Old 10-02-2006, 06:49 AM
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The best results people talk about have been with floodlight style lamps. Either fluorescent or halogen the internal reflector makes a big difference focusing the light into the fuge. A regular spiral fluorescent at the right colour temp (Philips Daylight are cheap) works too but I got way better growth the the floodlight.

Here's an article:
http://www.melevsreef.com/fuge_bulb.html

I use a 75w Philips Natural Daylight halogen from HD and it works very well, pretty good colour on it, I'm guessing around 4500K. It was only about 10 bucks but it throws a lot of heat so the fluorescent is probably a better choice.

You can order the bulb that melev uses from here:
http://www.lightbulbsdirect.com/page...ctors/1P381951

I'm changing up some of my FW tanks soon so I've been thinking about getting some and I think someone else was talking about them recently as well.
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Old 10-03-2006, 05:05 AM
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Thats a pretty good light. I wonder what stores in town would carry them. The 51k style.
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