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Coralife Aqualight vs. AHS
I am wondering if anyone has experience with Coralife Aqualife compact
fluorescent strip lights. I am looking at a 48" "double strip" model for my 75 gallon freshwater planted tank. The "fresh water" model has 6700 K lights and is 260 watts (four 65 watt bulbs). The Coralife light is somewhat more than the similar Aquarium Hobbyist Supply "britekit", but it is not a kit , comes assembled, and includes the bulbs. By the time the bulbs are added to the AHS hit and a hood has been constructed etc. I think the costs will be the same. Also: the Coralife setup has 4 65 watt bulbs whereas the AHS kit has 4 55 watt bulbs, so the Coralife is 40 watts more powerful. I know that AHS lights have a good reputation. Does anyone have any thoughts on the Coralife Aqualights ?? Any comments greatly appreciated as I need to make my mind up and order one or the other pretty soon. |
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I have the 36" Coralife freshwater PC and it is quite impressive. The thing
is like a small sun sitting over the tank. Not quite MH but you get the idea. I'm not sure about the plants loving it, but the Algae is sending me an X-Mas card. Once I get that algae under control I think the plants will really take off. I've not had it for long enough to effect the plants yet. "Henry" wrote in message ink.net... I am wondering if anyone has experience with Coralife Aqualife compact fluorescent strip lights. I am looking at a 48" "double strip" model for my 75 gallon freshwater planted tank. The "fresh water" model has 6700 K lights and is 260 watts (four 65 watt bulbs). The Coralife light is somewhat more than the similar Aquarium Hobbyist Supply "britekit", but it is not a kit , comes assembled, and includes the bulbs. By the time the bulbs are added to the AHS hit and a hood has been constructed etc. I think the costs will be the same. Also: the Coralife setup has 4 65 watt bulbs whereas the AHS kit has 4 55 watt bulbs, so the Coralife is 40 watts more powerful. I know that AHS lights have a good reputation. Does anyone have any thoughts on the Coralife Aqualights ?? Any comments greatly appreciated as I need to make my mind up and order one or the other pretty soon. |
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I have a 48" Coralife Aqualight over my 55gal marine tank, with two 65w
10000Ks and two 65w blue actinics. I couldn't be happier with it. I'm on a budget and it was reasonably priced ... I've had other "inexpensive" fixtures in the past, and the two main problems were that the fans worked inadequately / made a lot of noise / broke, and/or the acrylic shield was difficult to remove or wasn't mounted well. No problems like this with the Coralife. It's a solid, dependable fixture. |
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Thank you for your input.
I have decided to go ahead and order the Coralight. |
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