New lights, wohoo! XM 10k 250W

[big t]

Thanks for the link Don

Sorry you won't be at the meeting. We can hook up anytime for the frag I would actually like to meet you this week and talk w/ ya about my stand, and go over the details of it.

 

[DonW]

If your evenings are free I'll try to give you a call. I go to work about 5am and close at 5:30 but my shop is in Lakewood so it would only take a few minutes to get to you. Do you have a kreg jig and a mortise machine?

Don

 

[Gordo]

Tom,

You say that AWI is a wholesale shop. Will they sell to the public?

~Gordo~

 

[SueT]

Tom, my XM 250w 10k's have been on this thursday for 5 weeks. I so remember that first pic as I stood back when they fired up and all I saw was pink. I about freaked. Mine took about 7 days to brighten to the white like yours have now. All I can say is I love them.

They look great over your reef!!!!

 

[big t]

Don, give me a call anytime. I am going to pm you my number

Gordo, they AWI is mainly a wholesaler, but they do have a will call and sell to the public

Sue, My lights after just 3 days are starting to turn brighter and whiter. I have already noticed some of my high light demanding corals shifting back to some more beautiful colors of purple and yellow vs. brown and tan

 

[SueT]

Tom, ditto, on the color shift. I couldn't wait for that pink cast to go away. This is much better...

 

[reefsupply]

just a quick tone in on the XM lights, I use them for the SPS holding tanks and a lot of the corals look better now than when they came. At around 7 months I did get a shift but they sill look great. we are running 10k & 20K 400's and 10k & 20k 250's. I have been swaping out the old 250 Ballast with the one coralvue sells (all electronic) woks great.

 

[Electrobes]

hmm.. be careful about the XM 20k's - I run the 10K's and love em, but a few friends of mine were running the 20k's by XM and the completely cracked.

 

[Witfull]

i just put on dual 250 15k coralvues.....so far i love them.

 

[iamjosh]

Tom,

Do you mind me asking pricing. and where you purchased them from.

Thanks,
-josh

 

[big t]

I got the ballast and fixtures from Aquarium Paradise. I cannot talk about the price I paid. I traded a lot of corals and work for these. The bulbs I got from hellolights.com, and I think I paid $65 a piece.

 

[tamarindthai]

how is your coral under new light,,color-growth,,,any different?

 

[reefsupply]

Keep your fingers crossed on the XM's I had a few pop (2 20k and one 10k around the base), one month old. I think it was just a bad batch.

 

[tamarindthai]

reef supply,,how you like yours after 2-3 months went by.
dang