light ballast broke --- suggestions plz???

Hey, I have a reef aquarium with two black onyx true percs and a blue tang which assorted corals. I have two lights, one which is actinic and one which is 10,000k; and recently one of my ballasts has a short. I believe it over-heats and turns off, so i have to turnthe light off, and then on again, only for it to turn off when it gets too hot.

My questions is, which light shoul i have on fr 12 hours constantly, the actinic, or the 10,000K. I work so im unable to always attend to my lights. What should i do?

 

run the 10k

maybe get a fan for the ballasts

 

I would avoid running any type of electronic that isn't working properly, especially when not supervised. What type of lights are they?

I agree with sollie7. Actinics are mostly for aesthetics

 

run the 10k for now 8hrs is fine. maybe your having a short somewhere in the fixture. what fixture/ballasts do you have?

 

THe ballast is stock from an Oceanic Biocube 29G. I will run the 10K from now on only and will look further into fixing the other ballast.

THanks alot for the help guys.

 

call oceanic or email them at their website.. if your under warranty still you might be able to get a free replacement or at least price out a replacement ballast..

 

great idea.
Thanks a bunch.
I will email them ASAP!...

 

not a problem, thats what im here for. 8)