Would Two Of These Work For My Tank?

[jeffery]

they are 500 watts each but they are also halogen

 

[Mr.September15]

Miss Wiggle and Big Ian used it on there tank. But they hid it in the canopy as its not the best looking thing

EDIT: lol totally forgot to ask, why would you need 1000watts? What size tank is this going over? If its too small it'll cause heating issues with the water and too much evaporation.

 

[jeffery]

they would be going over my 55

 

[SkiFletch]

Not good at all. They are the complete wrong spectrum for marine tanks unfortunately. If you have to use one in a dire emergency to get SOME light on corals you can. But they are NOT a permanent solution. Halogens put out light in the 2000k to 2500k range. Marine aquaria require typically in the 10000k to 20000k range of spectra

 

[Mr.September15]

Miss Wiggle and Big Ian used it on there tank. But they hid it in the canopy as its not the best looking thing

EDIT: lol totally forgot to ask, why would you need 1000watts? What size tank is this going over? If its too small it'll cause heating issues with the water and too much evaporation.

I so need to work on my hardware

 

[boshank23]

you could probably buy the MH balast, light and fitting kit for the same money anyway

 

[SkiFletch]

EDIT: lol totally forgot to ask, why would you need 1000watts? What size tank is this going over? If its too small it'll cause heating issues with the water and too much evaporation.

Well, one of the guys in my local club has 2x400watt halides, 2x96watt PCs and 2x36watt PCs, grand total of 1064watts of lighting... He's growing hard LPS, Clams and SPS though

 

[Navarre]

Keep well away from Halogen lights. They look a cheap and powerful alternative. However as Ski mentioned, they are completely the wrong light spectrum.

 

[JJ1234567]

Heres a similar question. If the light is the wrong spectrum, why not buy a new bulb? My friend has a halide reading lamp that takes a either 250 or 400 watt double ended bulb. Looks just like the replacement bulbs in the catolague, would that be an option? I only wonder because that unit costs less than 20% of what the fixture costs for the acctually thing.

 

[SkiFletch]

Nope. Cheaper halogen bulbs operate off of plain old wall voltage. No pulse start, rapid start, or exotic voltage required. Just put 110VAC or 220VAC across the bulb and it fires right up. HID (high intensity discharge) metal halide bulbs usually run off of 600+ VAC and require a pulse start or a rapid start to the current to light the phosphors inside the acctual reaction tube. Therefore, a Ballast must be used to illuminate a metal halide bulb. Typically a ballast involves a transformer, capacitors and other circuitry, the type of which is dependent on whether it its transformer is electronic or magnetic. There are some electronic ballasts out there that can fire multiple different wattages of bulbs but typically the bulb and ballast are matched