My LFS recently attempted to sell me a powerquad kit for my 44G plant tank for the economy of the bulbs.
It does work out vs a standard flourescent solution.
1 quad bulb runs about $50 and needs to be replaced yearly where as 4 standards are about $25 each and last six months.
$50 per year vs $200 per year.
Additionally the quad provide 96 watts whereas the 4 18" bulbs will only provide 60 watts (not enough).
My questions is this plant folk:
Is the spectrum
A. appropriate
B. good enough
C. fair
D. not good enough
E. bad
for freshwater tropical plants?
Notes on the Powerquad from marindepot.com
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PowerQuad delivers more than four times the power of a standard fluorescent at less than half the lenth. The PowerQuad retrofit incorporates a single 96-watt Electro-Lite ballast with the new 96-watt PowerQuad SmartLamp. This new lamp is the worlds brightest 18" fluorescent lamp. Its 4 lamps in one, the new revolutionary design utilizes quad-tube technology with the first and third providing 10,000K Premium Daylight and the second and fourth tube Ultra-Actinic
It does work out vs a standard flourescent solution.
1 quad bulb runs about $50 and needs to be replaced yearly where as 4 standards are about $25 each and last six months.
$50 per year vs $200 per year.
Additionally the quad provide 96 watts whereas the 4 18" bulbs will only provide 60 watts (not enough).
My questions is this plant folk:
Is the spectrum
A. appropriate
B. good enough
C. fair
D. not good enough
E. bad
for freshwater tropical plants?
Notes on the Powerquad from marindepot.com
-----------------------------------------------------------
PowerQuad delivers more than four times the power of a standard fluorescent at less than half the lenth. The PowerQuad retrofit incorporates a single 96-watt Electro-Lite ballast with the new 96-watt PowerQuad SmartLamp. This new lamp is the worlds brightest 18" fluorescent lamp. Its 4 lamps in one, the new revolutionary design utilizes quad-tube technology with the first and third providing 10,000K Premium Daylight and the second and fourth tube Ultra-Actinic
