What's new or upcoming in your tank?

[sethsolomon]

I do love them. I will keep them on my mixed tank and the other ones. I really want the super awesome pop and look of the VHOs and I fear that the tank will be too blue for me with the 14Ks. 10k and VHO Super Actinic is the bee's knees of reef lighting if you don't mind the wattage of the VHOs. Also, I will have the Phoenix bulbs around in case I want to switch back.

Where can you still get VHO's?

 

[goslugsgo]

I'm swapping the LED's for Phoenix or Radium.

 

[jda123]

Any good reef supply store. There are still more VHO lit reef tanks than LED tanks, if you can believe suppliers like PA, and the like - they ship bulbs like crazy. The people online do not represent a critical mass of everybody in the hobby - and most noobies have never heard about VHO, but would sometimes be better suited with them. The VHO bulbs last for 2 years, have twice the output of T5 (at twice the wattage, so it is a push). I just got 2 brand new IceCap VHO ballasts and harnesses and I had to pry them from the hands of the people who had them. MarineDepot, Premium Aquatics and the like sell out of the bulbs faster than UVL can make them. They are a great reef light that was out-hyped by T5 and LED, but perform better than either IMO. The size of the bulb also makes them harder to put into fixtures, but I would pay good money for a HQI and VHO fixture if AquaMedic, or the like, would make them.

 

[FinsUp]

I'm building a zoa & macro garden in the nuvo. Waiting on a 2nd snowflake so I can put it and Thief in there.

 

[sethsolomon]

Any good reef supply store. There are still more VHO lit reef tanks than LED tanks, if you can believe suppliers like PA, and the like - they ship bulbs like crazy. The people online do not represent a critical mass of everybody in the hobby - and most noobies have never heard about VHO, but would sometimes be better suited with them. The VHO bulbs last for 2 years, have twice the output of T5 (at twice the wattage, so it is a push). I just got 2 brand new IceCap VHO ballasts and harnesses and I had to pry them from the hands of the people who had them. MarineDepot, Premium Aquatics and the like sell out of the bulbs faster than UVL can make them. They are a great reef light that was out-hyped by T5 and LED, but perform better than either IMO. The size of the bulb also makes them harder to put into fixtures, but I would pay good money for a HQI and VHO fixture if AquaMedic, or the like, would make them.

ahh ok for some reason I thought VHO's and t12 where the same thing. and t12's have been removed from production.

 

[jda123]

They are T12. VHO is a general term for VHO T12s. Just general use T12s are being removed from production. You can still get any specialty T12 bulb - tanning bed, reef, food service, etc.

 

[sethsolomon]

They are T12. VHO is a general term for VHO T12s. Just general use T12s are being removed from production. You can still get any specialty T12 bulb - tanning bed, reef, food service, etc.

Oh ok.

 

[sethsolomon]

That makes me currious doing a high power LED accent strips in stead of VHO's how it would compare.

 

[SynDen]

2014 List to Do for me:
Get rid of the remaining hair algae - been a long war but starting to make progress on it
Clean sand beds
Setup QT tank in basement
Possibly switch to maxspect LED light - currently have HO T5s

Kole Tang
Cleaner shrimp
Fairy Wrasse
Rose or sunburst anem
Restock the CuC
Many more corals, blue mushrooms, some montis, acans and a few more