Quote Originally Posted by hummer View Post
bobby and angie thank 4 info was thinking of making my own hood 4 tank hood with halides , found halides fixtures at manards for $40.00 each and bulbs were $28.00 for 400 watts way too big for me but 175 or 250 watts sounds good ah ?
Halide fixtures at Menard's??? That's got to be a new item for them, around us they have had mogul base halide bulbs for a while now but they are way down in color temp ~3900K or so... not very well suited for our tanks.... Next time you run through there and have a minute take a look at them again and report back what you find for fixture, maybe we'll get lucky and find a decent ballast in the fixture... who knows maybe they'll actually have something usefull... Gotta love 'nards!