£20 Flood Light Halide For Corals? 70W

[aly_starh]

hey everyone, how does this light look for a soft easy coral tank? Its under £20 and is 70w?

http/www.lyonlighting.com/acatalog/info_122.html

 

[ainsy]

There is no reason not to use that sort of fitting. I have seen many successful tanks kept with similar BUT the lamp that comes with it won't be suitable. They usually come with 6K lamps that just look awful.

You would need to replace the lamp with a specialist marine one which will cost you almost double what the fitting is.

I have used These before and can recommend them.

 

[aly_starh]

Thanks for the reply, will look into it

 

[lljdma06]

That's a cool fixture, but yes, the lamp that comes with it will be utterly atrocious.

 

[jeasko]

Just a thought but positioning could be a pain as its asymmetric which means it will push light one way more than the other, also need to look at beam width as it could be quite narrow not allowing an even light spread which could be a headache

 

[Merry Browen]

I have seen many successful tanks kept with similar BUT the lamp that comes with it won't be suitable.

 

[jeasko]

I have seen many successful tanks kept with similar BUT the lamp that comes with it won't be suitable.

The lamp change is always a given, the gear that runs it will be fine if a replacement 70w hqi lamp is used but it's still the photometry of the light spread/output that will be the issue, you could of course buy it and adapt it to run a symmetrical reflector(provided the right matrix one is selected) which would solve the positioning issue but simply to change the lamp to a marine one wont be sufficient, unless your prepared to place the unit in and obscure orientation to the tank!