Tube or screw in bulbs?

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chilover1113

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Hi, I am still confused about something:help:; can you get the same quality of light from tube flourescent bulbs as you can from the screw in compact flourescent bulbs? I need to know if I should go through the trouble of converting my fixtures from tube to screw in. Thanks ~Angel:)
 
You can get a good amount of light, but you'll be stuck with 6700K (daylight), which is a bit yellow for some people. Plants do well w/ daylight bulbs. For the money it's a good lighting method.
 
i use 2 26w cfl on my 20g high, and the plants are doing well. it all so save me some money
 
incandesent hood

Could I just replace the hoods I have now with incandescent hoods and then put the cheap compact flourescent lights in there? I saw some last night that said 1500 lumen, would that be good? Thanks for all the help!:headbang2:
 
I just converted three of my hoods over to cfls. My 44 Pent i use to hoods with a total of 6 13w 6700k daylights. They are very yellow but i like the look. My 20Hi i was able to fit 4 13w cfl's due to the 24" hood. Got the sockets and bulbs from a local hardware store i think i had around 50 bux all together with bulbs, sockets, little bit of wire, wire nuts and screws. I really wanted to find opposing sockets they wouldve worked perfect and i think i couldve fit 4 in the 20" hoods then. heres some pics i took while making em.
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