Has anyone experience with these lights or know if they are available in New Zealand. Could be an answer to our power bills.

http://www.reefonline.com.au/shop/produ ... cts_id=214

Good find Jeroen, I'm going to Melbourne at Christmas, and my son in law over there is an electrician too! Think I may get a few of them.

How could we find out the PAR rating of them?

I've seen similar units at the local grow shop. Asked about them but the guy behind the counter didn't know enough for me to get overly interested. Honestly forgot until now...

do you want them FW or Marine?

Mitre 10 mega had some big 100 watt energy saver lights that I thought might be interesting to try. Fairly good price, $30 or something.

yeah was gonna ask if you'd had a look locally. reefonline are good but reasonably expensive i've found

The good thing is these are 1400K so suitable for a marine tank. I can't read the brand on the picture to see where else we can get them from. Still Aus$ 79 for a 400W compatible light and no ballast needed. Just wonder how long the last.

So who is going to australia next?

I sure would be interested in a couple

i had a go with one of these but a friend of mine bought it over and by the time he got here it had smashed i was going to use it to light my sump on reverse cycle

I think SOG sell a similar product

yea the swithed on gardener do sell those exact bulbs. i hav two of them over one of my reef tanks. i cant say that they are the best lights ever invented. they have a good colour and they look bright enough but the corals dont seem to be very happy under them. the mushrooms have no colour and have shrunk away, much like my purple star polyps. My colt corals are open with polyps extended but have not growen at all since they have been under these lights. for some reason it dosent seem like the light penetrates the water very well. although some of the problem may be my water quality, but its not that bad.

I'm going to be in Melborne next month (10 July) to visit a friend, am happy to bring stuff back if anyone wants to arrange for it to be delivered to his place. But don't really want to have to carry 10 skimmers through customs, so sensible please.! PM me if you want to do it.

I can see it now on Boarder Control.. "Mr Suphew are you sure these 10 x so called skimmer things are not for the manufacture of P" Please come in to this little room.....ah oh

Mushrooms & Starpolyp are the easiest to keep & extremely hard to kill- so sometings not right?????

salinity will do it

I've managed to kill off my yellow polyps and my mushrooms aren't happy either.

yea i no, but its not just those its all corals in the tank. if anyone has any ideas on what else could be wrong please tell me. i dont really want to replce my lights.

How is your kh?

When i put mine up from about 8 - 10.6 some, not all of my zoos closed up. Some have died and some are still not open. I did not change anything else in my tank???????????

Maybe too much light for them.

Anyhow if these are for sale at SOG, how much?

https://secure.sog.co.nz/store.htm is the website.

If that doesnt work www.sog.co.nz

They seem quite expensive, it seems that because they are for growing "illegals" theres a 25% market price increase. :lol:

Impressed to see that they have the 14000K model too. Didn't know you them for growing herbs too?

What kind of reflector would you use for these lights?

Wish they had a shop here in New Plymouth :-? .

i think they were about $80 each. they also hav a white reflector worth about $50, dont get it its a peice of crap!!!!! and it rusts like a beast