Does household lighting suffer because of your reef habits??

[fat-tony]

Well, just got back from the evil empire of walmart. Kitchen had a 4' NO fixture that's been there forever. Well, the bulbs finally bit it last night (plenty of other lights so wasn't cooking dinner in dark at least).

So i'm looking at all the bulbs there and I can't help but read through every color temp, output and socket size. All I could think was, man....those old bulbs were kinda yellow looking. Needless to say, I came home with 2x6500K bulbs and the kitchen is now WHITE.

HOpe the wife doesn't mind because, damn....it's bright now.

 

[moriartiholmes]

I've been trying to get all 65K lights for the home too. I think the natural spectrum is good for the inhabitants (me).

 

[dreaminmel]

If I was her I'd be ticked cuz that would mean I'd have to clean the kitchen more often since all the dirt would stick out like a sore thumb... :lol:

The kitchen is my least favorite room to clean right after the bathrooms... stupid, stupid bathrooms... you guys don't know how good you have it.

 

[zanclus]

I have been changing all of our incandesent 60 w bulbs with 15 w pc screw in replacements. The way i figure for every 10 I change it is saving me 450W's= 1 Mh for my tank.

 

[zanclus]

Oh and they are 6500k.

 

[dreaminmel]

LOL... our livingroom ceiling fixture takes 3 regular bulbs and we replaced those w/ the pc screw ins. That lasted about 2 hours and now there are two empty sockets.

 

[becon776]

I remember when I used to do big planted tanks and my kitchen had 48" t12 vitalites all around all the old but still good bulbs made their way into those fixtures. Kinda nice and they are supposed to beat the winter blues

The kids room had two old actinics in an independent fixture... he just like them... ;-)

 

[Arik]

That's funny, I just bought three bulbs from Wally world for the same reason. I got the Lights of America Sunlight bulbs that are 25w (135w equivalent) and now my house is WHITE! I love it! It looks like I put in a sunroof!