Aqua Traders

Tigger · #1 12-23-2009, 04:59 PM

Has anybody bought from Aqua Traders before? I am considering buying the Odyssea 48" 216W (4x54W) T5 HO Light for $109. It even comes with the bulbs, Moon lights and a timer. Are these good lights? The price seems good, but I am not sure about the quality. Does anybody want to combine orders and split the shipping?

http://shop.aquatraders.com

FitoPharmer · #2 12-24-2009, 02:27 AM

i always hear Odyssea ballasts are notoriously cheap and prone to failure whenever aqua traders gets brought up in a post for buying cheap lighting. i have also heard they are rather dim for their wattage even when they are working fine. IMO i would stay away, for me it falls into the "too good to be true category"

but then again i do remember they were always talking about the odyssea MH ballasts, maybe their t-5 systems are better.

muck · #3 12-24-2009, 02:33 AM

There were reports of some of these units even catching fire a few years back.

Ryan · #4 12-24-2009, 03:36 AM

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Originally Posted by muck

There were reports of some of these units even catching fire a few years back.

I have heard the same thing.

Eb0la11 · #5 12-24-2009, 06:58 AM

Ouch.

Red Coral Aquariums · #6 12-24-2009, 07:07 AM

I have been running the 4 bulb HO T5's on 4 of my softy tanks for going on 16 months without a bit of problem. The bulbs that come with them are cheap and I replaced them out with a kz coral 10k, kz new gen 15k, kz fiji purple, and a D+D aticnic +. My corals are doing excellent.
Kevin