Anyone tried the Coralvue Reeflux 10k bulbs?

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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6996276#post6996276 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by want2reef
After about three months of looking, I finally made my purchase.

Reeflux 10K on EVC ballast. Hoping it won't look to "pink".
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I guess it's a matter of taste. I kind of like a pink/purple bulb as it looks like VHO's which I think is the ultimate in color, but has no par.
 
With the IC ballast, it only occured during the "burn in". It was gone after 2-3 weeks.

My wife just said to me last night that she couldn't tell the difference between the P14 and the CVR 10K.
 
I have EVC 250W electronic, running a reeflux DE 10k Bulb, it was pinkish during burn in, now it's a bright white light, no pink.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6997085#post6997085 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Wayner2
I have EVC 250W electronic, running a reeflux DE 10k Bulb, it was pinkish during burn in, now it's a bright white light, no pink.
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Are you seeing any blue, or is it just white?

Thanks
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6997054#post6997054 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by onthefly
With the IC ballast, it only occured during the "burn in". It was gone after 2-3 weeks.

My wife just said to me last night that she couldn't tell the difference between the P14 and the CVR 10K.
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Reeflux bulbs are DE's?
 
I have been in this hobby for close to 10 years now and I can honestly say that I have tried every bulb on the market and nothing comes close to what I have seen from the ReefLux 10K lamps. Once every 5 to 10 years something new comes out that makes a major improvement in this hobby and I think the ReefLux lamps could be one of them. Not only is the color of these lamps fantastic, but the growth rates is like nothing I have seen before. I am getting double the growth rate that I was getting with other 10K lamps that I have used. XM 10K, AB 10K Ushio 10K, all need actinic to balance out there pee yellow color and while I am sure these lamps my burn brighter and whiter under HQI ballast I am not going to use a ballast that is not intended to be ran with a metal halide bulb. I think anyone that is keeping SPS corals needs to give these lamps a try. You will not be sorry you did.



I am also running the previous model Coralvue ballast. All 400 watters on a 500 gal tank and no actinics at all.



I will be posting pictures of my system very soon.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7015518#post7015518 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ReeferMonkey
For $50 too! That's a good deal, most places seem to have them at $60.
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Exactly what I was thinking.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7015518#post7015518 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ReeferMonkey
For $50 too! That's a good deal, most places seem to have them at $60.
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Thanks for the tip. I just bought three of them and I'm asking the supplier to pricematch this. We'll see what happens.

--Rick
 
I ran the Reeflux 10K SE 175W's on my magnetic ballast and it was on the yellow side and made my corals look washed out. I heard you have better results on magnetic ballast with the 12K's. I am going to try them.
 
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