Re: Its Here, Its Here, Finally Here!!!!
Well, I opted to save the money and get what I have in order! Here's my report as of Monday night:
I love this Odyssea light set up! So far it is working fantastic and the double ended 250 watt odyssea bulb puts out a whopping amount of PAR. The ballast is working quite well too!It's not quite blue enough for me and my taste.
I still have not decided yet. IF I do, will change to a Phoenix 14k or a Helios 20K or go with some T5 blues to get that bit more blue color.
All in all for 104.00 the light was a great value! Oh, my new back up ballast arrives tomorrow!!!! Hopefully this IceCap works! Then I can swap ballasts and get a better idea of color and what I want to do!
Honestly, I think this ballast is putting out close to 250 watts that came with the unit. But, I am not sure. A higher PAR reading will confirm tomorrow.
All corals are responding nicely and picking up some new color! I am getting a little "POP" now that I did not have before on some of the Acro frags. I am sure a more blue bulb would inhance it further!
Oh, I am up to 6.5 hours daily now with the new bulb. Looks to be doing very well!
The hood gets hot! But don' they all? It came with a fan that works pretty well. So far so good!