My new 75 gallon coral breeder tank w/newly stained stand.

[josephatmbimortgage]

lol, yeah I bet he would say that all day, lol, I get great growth out of 12 k reflux also, but when I was using reefgrow 10 K bulb when I first started, I swear my LPS were growing faster. Not sure, bu since I'm doing 12 k on the main tank, I'm thinking 10 K also. Thanks guys!

-Joseph Le

[josephatmbimortgage]

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2007-04/jb/index.php

This site talk about the PAr of each bulb, got this from Garrett. It looks like XM 10 K has very good par compared to coralvue 10 K and 12 K. Who knows, I grow great stuff with my reeflux 12 K , but I do notice it is dimmer than the xm 10 K on my other set up.

-Joseph

[erikharrison]

That stand is purdy. Me likey!

[JeffCo]

Nice Setup. I personally like the reeflux 10k with VHO actinics. Really fast growth and the actinics make the colors pop.

[josephatmbimortgage]

Okay today is the first time I was able to put the lights on my tank. I got a complete unit with two 175 MH on magnetic ballast and two super actinic 4 ft 110 watts. The vho are not working right now and waiting for part to fix it on friday. Well was suprise today with XM 175 watt single ended bulb on left side of tank and hamilton 14 k on the right. I can't believe my eyes, the XM is soooo much brighter than the hamilton and brighter than my 250 watt reeflux 12ks on my main tank. I decide to switch all my bulbs to xm 10 k after seeing the difference back to back in the same tank. Anyone have hooks on XM bulb brand new??? I'm looking for two 250 watt and two 175 watt single end bulbs.

-Joseph Le

[josephatmbimortgage]

Update pic of my frag tank. Alot more corals will be in there in the coming weeks from the other frag tank I'm breaking down. Right side is hamilton 14K and right side is xm 10k. Getting my endcaps for VHO on saturday.

-Joseph

[Texreefer]

if you have two right sides,, who's on left?

[josephatmbimortgage]

lol, sorry, well the bulbs in the pics, ya can guess which one is the xm 10ks, lol