Coral Vue Metal Halide Bulbs?????

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Coral Vue Metal Halide Bulbs?????

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Anyone heard anything about CoralVue Metal halide bulbs?? I just bought one a 400 W 20K from Coral Connection for 50 bucks. It was an impulsive buy. Just let me know if you guys heard anything about these bulbs?
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Xster... Tell us a long-term report on this bulb.. Did it last, lose the color.. Have you been pleased with it?
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I have read on RC from numerous people that the Coralvue 10k are great bulbs. They have been reporting great color from the buls and from the corals.
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The 175 20k I have is a CoralVue and I absolutely love it. Ive had it for about 3 months and it has great color. Very happy with my purchase.
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Post by Brandon »

Just got this back from roesmarineworld: hrm...
HI
Coralvue has had problems with their coralvue bulbs. So they upgraded them and now charge us more for them. I would go with Hamilton bulbs myself.
http://www.roesmarineworld.com/xmhbulbs.htm
The coralvue's are $50 each for 10-20k


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They are okay, I guess, My coral color is fine, a little bit better than the ushios. I am trying the XM's next. But for the value they are great.

As far as the quality assurance with the CoralVue bulbs, I have heard some short "gossip." It deals with the process of putting the bulb together, since then they have upgraded that process. I dont know of any price increase though.
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Seems like all of the chinese bulbs are having quality control problems. I see a good bit of bad stuff relating to XM, Coralvue, and Sun Aquatics. For the price.. I'm going to try the Sun Aquatics though.

This is the link if anyone else was interested in the deal:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

I'm bidding on 2, I want to see what their 10k&14K look like.
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