Hi,
Firstly I would like to say hello to everyone on the forum. This is my first post.
I am about to set up my first freshwater aquarium. My background is 5 years of reef keeping. I am now setting up a planted discus aquarium.
I have been deliberating over how to light my new aquarium (a Wave station 120x50x50). I have obtained some Silver bresslein MV pendants and think they look fantastic. Right I was going to just run two with each set at 80w but after looking at the units they have standard ceramic 27mm Eddison Screw fittings and was contemplating loosing the external ballasts and putting some Daylight (6500K) Energy saving mini spiral bulbs in them! You can get these bulbs in 11w, 15w, and 18w which equates to 60w, 75w and 100w respectively. According to manufacturers info.
I have tested one in the bresslein pendant and works well. Nice white light as well.
Now has anyone tried this or does anyone see any reason why it cannot be done? Would it restrict what plants I can have?
The reason I am thinking of doing this is:
big electricity saving
cheaper bulbs
lower heat emission from the bulbs
higher kelvin rating than MV bulbs
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Cheers
Dave
Firstly I would like to say hello to everyone on the forum. This is my first post.
I am about to set up my first freshwater aquarium. My background is 5 years of reef keeping. I am now setting up a planted discus aquarium.
I have been deliberating over how to light my new aquarium (a Wave station 120x50x50). I have obtained some Silver bresslein MV pendants and think they look fantastic. Right I was going to just run two with each set at 80w but after looking at the units they have standard ceramic 27mm Eddison Screw fittings and was contemplating loosing the external ballasts and putting some Daylight (6500K) Energy saving mini spiral bulbs in them! You can get these bulbs in 11w, 15w, and 18w which equates to 60w, 75w and 100w respectively. According to manufacturers info.
I have tested one in the bresslein pendant and works well. Nice white light as well.
Now has anyone tried this or does anyone see any reason why it cannot be done? Would it restrict what plants I can have?
The reason I am thinking of doing this is:
big electricity saving
cheaper bulbs
lower heat emission from the bulbs
higher kelvin rating than MV bulbs
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Cheers
Dave