Halide color choice?

20K would be your best if you like blue.

 

I would choose whatever has the best PAR readings for your bulb type & ballast.

You can go to: http://www.manhattanreefs.com/lighting for more information about different bulbs & ballast combinations.

What Wattage, Ballast, and Bulb Type (SE or DE) are you looking for?

 

Get the Phoenix 14K bulbs they are blue. I love mine,but I have DE MH bulbs.

 

I loved the 14 phoenix. I have a couple hqi 150 id sell for half price. Used them only 3 months.

 

Idk anything about that. They are in a corallfe right now id sell the bulbs for 50 for 2 or the fixture for 150.

 

you would have to change sockets and you would have to add glass and maybe even the ballast depending on how old yours is they may start up different

 

Sounds like you have a plan now...cool.

 

I did that about 6 months ago and paid paid for it. Bulbs lasted all of around 2 months maybe and started to burn my coral. color went from clear/yellow to just yellow. I would not buy them ever again..

 

Yeah, again buying cheap stuff is like flushing your money. If you don't have enough to do it, work with what you have and save for something worth spending money on.