New bulb!!! before and after.

i cannot believe i was dealing with my old bulb as long as i did,

i bought the fixture used and kept putting off replacing it.



old nuicance bulb (believe it was the original Hamilton 250w bulb) that caused a ton of hair algae from slipping into the red spectrum as you can see.




and the new XM 15k 250w DE bulb i just received from Marinedepot today!



crazy difference. ps. my little firefish Has to be in every picture, haha.

 

new bulbs are a great thing when it comes to our reef tanks! what color spectrum was that old hamiltion? 10k? and apprx how old was the bulb it? reason I ask is I have 2 new 10k hamiltons 175w, and waiting to buy a ballast soon.. I hope they arent as yellow..

 

Wow!! The difference is amazing!! Glad you finally put the new bulb in

 

Most likely will be.

 

It was a 14K and I have no idea how old it was, the guy said only 6 months but I don't believe him, I had never had a hair algae problem until I switched to it.

I heard good things about the XM bulbs so I went with it. Also though I don't have t5 actinic supplementation though, so I have to rely on my mh to put out some blue but not affect coral growth.

 

Night and day

 

Big difference,really makes the colors pop

 

i really think the old bulb slipped in color because the difference in spectrum between the two bulbs is only a 1k but as you can see it doesn't look like it.

 

It is amazing how much difference there is between and old and new bulb. Looks great.

Love the firefish needing to be in every picture, I have a trigger that does the same thing.

 

I see now the difference!

That's cool triggers must be amazing to watch, the firefish won't eat out of my hand like the clown does, but it sure loves being front and center anytime the lights are on