MH lighting what is the best

[fishaholic911]

I am going to set up a 240 with 4 175 w MH what would be the best ballest and bulbs to buy within reason like within the range of 100 per bulb and 150-200 per ballast. The tank is 8 by 2 by 2.I like the looks of the higher k bulbs more blue.I am only going to keep frogspawn brains polyps shrooms and a few other softies plus I will be running 6 6 foot 160 watt vho's

 

[tom obrecht]

I run 400watt 10K Ushios with VHO actinics and reaaly like the color, however a friend has 14K XM's by themselves and that is nice as well. If you are set of using the VHO's, I'd go with 10K's. I know the Ushio's perfer pulse ballasts and that might be problem matic down the road if you want to switch bulb types.

 

[fishaholic911]

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[Julio]

if you are gonna go with 175 watters, then you definitely have to go with the Iwasakis 14Ks they are the only true 14K on the market. Best results of any 14K bulb.