Wow! Thanks for all the responses. Quality light fixtures are nonexistant in the LFS here. All we have here are cheeply made stuff from china like JEBO, Odyssey, and Jalli. There is a Coralife rep here and all the LFS sell bulbs but they do not bring in fixtures. I really liked customsealife. (is that what they were called?) Those fixtures were built really well and the bulbs lasted forever. I think Sunpaq and the Orbit/ Satellite systems were their replacements, is this correct and does anyone know how these fixtures are?
I actually don't want a fan, mainly because I have never had one that did not get noisy down the line. Besides, I'd run it open top and find using a small fan near the tank works a lot better in keeping the temp down on the fixture and the tank (evaporation)
Gnome, I know what you mean concerning the color of Coralife bulbs, that can be said about PC bulbs in general. There just isn't the selection of color temp for PC as there is for T-8, T-12 yet. My old 72" Customsealife fixture came with 8800k 96w and those were great. Don't know where I'd get something like that now though. I also have some German made 55w PCs that came with my old Perfecto SHO light (one of the very first pc fixtures to hit the US market about 7 or 8 years ago that had to be recalled cause they would catch on fire!) and believe it or not, they still work and look as intense as a year old coralife bulb!
oops, sorry for going off topic.
