suggestions on t5 fixture

[reeferwanabe]

I was looking at 2 fixtures. aquatic life t5ho 72" with 8 39w bulbs or current nova pro with 12 39w they both seem to have some type of individual reflectors and I realize I will change out some bulbs. anyone have these? any comments would be appreciated. thank you

 

[Sunny]

I have the aquaticlife 72 inch. I am very happy with it so far. I also looked at the nova pro at the time, but there were some bad reviews on the sites for Nova pro so went with aquaticlife.

 

[reefsandrotts]

http://www.catalinaaquarium.com/product_info.php?cPath=71_136&products_id=1427
Great fixtures and can't beat the pricing.
Also has a 8x80

 

[reeferwanabe]

the ctalina does look good. thanks

 

[JRWOHLER]

Hey you can check it out at my place. Basically the same design just 4ft, have upgraded the bulbs over the past year, makes a big difference.

 

[Sunny]

Hey you can check it out at my place. Basically the same design just 4ft, have upgraded the bulbs over the past year, makes a big difference.

James

Which bulbs did you upgrade to? I may have to do the same.

 

[JRWOHLER]

I have used UVL bulbs mostly. I did add one 460nm blue bulb gives great color, par stinks from what I was able to research, it is a coralife bulb, but I have a Ice Cap deepwater to swap it out with eventually. A lot of folks love the ATI bulbs. I think it is really all preference though the original Catalina bulbs were not very good. The 10K were better then the actinic IMO. Giesemann Super Actinic are maybe a touch better then the UVL Super Actinic but not really sure. My bulb config is in my tale of the tank.

 

[Sunny]

Here is what I have.

(4) 39W, 36 in. T5 HO Bulbs with 420/460nm output
(4) 39W, 36 in. T5 HO Bulbs with 700+nm output
(6) 1W LED lunar lights for night time viewing