was wondering how this lighting would be

[amf82380]

I found this by calling around trying to find a cheap metal halide ballast I was wondering if it would work for a 10 gal its metal halide and only $62 at lowes ?
http://www.regentlighting.com/common/CLDetail.cfm?id=14085&CFID=3614884&CFTOKEN=19279535

Does anyone know the normal Kelvin scale for the bulb that would come with a normal metal halide light like this one would I need to purchase a diffrent bulb I know I need at least 10k but I dont know what type of bulbs the halides you buy like this normally come with?

Thanks,
Aaron

 

[drty811]

aaron,
the bulb wouldnt be the right kalvin rating, buying the right bulb would put the cost into the range of a whole retro kit made for aquariums.

i did the same research and i came up with.......saving for the real thing. HTH

 

[skipm]

Fixtures like that usually come with a bulb around 3000k which is much to yellow for a reef. Like Erik pointed out you would come out better in the long run to buy a retrofit kit.