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Coral Vue Metal Halide Bulbs?????
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 10:01 pm
by Xster
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?
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 6:25 pm
by Brandon
Xster... Tell us a long-term report on this bulb.. Did it last, lose the color.. Have you been pleased with it?
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 6:37 pm
by Scott
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.
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 5:45 pm
by HCJohn
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.
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 3:59 pm
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
Thanks,
Tyrone
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 11:18 pm
by Xster
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.
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 7:57 am
by Brandon
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.