Reef Sun 50/50 Fluorescent bulbs?? Anyone have any comments?

[roberteb]

Has anyone ever used the T8 Reef Sun 50/50 Fluorescent bulbs? The description on these bulbs sounds nice.

"The 50/50 Reef Sun provides high intensity full spectrum illumination, strong in the short wavelength blue region essential for photosynthetic corals and invertebrates, balanced with 6500K daylight for natural color enhancement and viewing pleasure. It is a long lasting light that is on average effective for up to 10,000 hours. "

Any comments for or against?

 

[Blue2Fyre]

I have used these bulbs over my mbuna tank and it really is a nice looking light. It brought out the blues in my fish and gave the tank a nice clean white light look as well. They don't do much for yellow or orange fish though.

What I did was go to the LFS and buy a bunch of bulbs. Then I tried each over my tank, took pictures and figured out which ones I liked. THEN I returned all the bulbs and bought them online since it's a lot cheaper

 

[roberteb]

Is there a website that has good deals on bulbs? Ive been looking for 48" T-12 Atinic bulbs and it seems that they are a bit scarce. The site that do sell them with shipping the bulbs are way too expensive.

 

[Blue2Fyre]

I don't know about t-12 but Kensfish sells t-8s that I've been using.