I need to replace my PC bulbs... HELP!

[luckylittleman]

I took out my bulbs from my coral life PC & on the bulb it says

460MM 420MM
Model # 2082
65W Dual Actinic

Is the 460MM 420MM important do I need to match that again?

I'm confused!

[DrBDC]

No. Here is a good buy on straight pins 65 watters. If you have square pins just search around. The true aqua bulbs are awesome and very very cheap at 9 bucks!

http://www.innovativelights.com/traqpocola4.html

[luckylittleman]

WOW THANKS! Thats what I was looking for!

[DrBDC]

I accidently found them a couple years ago. Some will say that they don't like the knock off bulbs but I put a 6 month old one next to a 1 month coralife bulb(3X the cost) and it was brighter still. Take any new bulb and compare it to a 6 month old bulb and the difference is drastic so I recommend that you change them every 6 months. At 9 bucks that's a much easier price to swallow every 6 months! :lol:

[luckylittleman]

DrBDC so this 9.00 is comparable to the Coralife?
This my be a dump question but when i looked them up do they have the 2 bulbs kind of glued together like the corallife?

[DrBDC]

Same design. The pics on that site just all have the same pic of a 50/50 bulb with 1 blue and 1 white. I always order an equal amount of the 10,000K's and the true 03 actinics. But that depends on your color preferences. The coralife seems to have a larger diameter on the size of each of the two tubes and is a hair longer. As far as intensity I would guess they are about 25-30% brighter on the couple I tested. My old bulbs were brighter than the almost new coralifes.

[luckylittleman]

Thanks so much I just order 2 new bulbs. It came out out to be $25.00 & that was with shipping!

[stereomandan]

So it was only $7 for shipping?

Dan

[luckylittleman]

yep it was even UPS