Does DPA stock VHOs? I might want to get a different VHO bulb for the time being until my T5s are setup.
We can get UVL brand VHO.(The actinic is highly recommended) If you let us know by Monday we can have them by Thursday. We don’t carry them on the shelf as they are not as popular.
UVL:
Aquasun(10K)
Actinic White (12K)
Actinic Blue
My old online source was a good deal for a few years but doubled their price last spring.
http://www.aquariumlamps-factorydirect.com/
now they cost more than others. so when i could get their VHO lamps with internal reflectors for $15 delivered before, VHO lighting was a good deal for me. Now im going to switch to T5s as my old bulbs wear out. They do make very good bulbs though. I think they used to make all of URIs bulbs a few year back.
So time to upgrade a little to T5s. they last longer, and produce more light, and use less power. Time to cut down the electric bill.
I could be wrong, but I believe we also sell VHO bulbs with built in reflectors. Andy said something about this when I called to double check that we didn’t have any currently at the store. I’m not into VHOs. I have a hard enough time remembering all the brands, names, and color spectrum peaks of T5s and MH which I use at home and in the store.
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Time to cut down the electric bill.[/quote]
Time to dramaticly cut down our carbon foot prints. Yeah having a bigger energy bill hurts at the end of the month, but it hurts a lot more when you’ve been touched by the animals from the reefs and you know they won’t be there in 40 years.
Sorry had to add that.
40 years … right …
Jon, I can remember the fright in the 70’s when “the world would run out of oil before the year 2000” … and that number has now been extended by at least 40 years …
the end of oil is still near. the difference is newer drilling and well fracking methods have been getting more oil out of each old well for a little while. but that means they go dry sooner. decline is perhaps near. a top might be forming. better get a high mpg car before the rush starts. again. Most major fields in the world are peaking or declining. Great Britain went from an exporter to importer a couple years ago as their hot new north sea field found in the 80’s has decline a whole lot. Dubai is just a few years away. mexico and south america is declining. and so are our fields since 1970.
Im still waiting for the AIR CAR, to run off the solar roof on my future house. 22 KWHRs of electricity pumps up the air tank good for 120 miles.
http://www.mdi.lu/english/index.php
meanwhile i guess i can switch to T5s and save power. and CO2. 1 KWHR of Delaware electricity produces 2 pounds of CO2 .
I’m for global warming, combat the oncoming ice age!
Cows make more emissions than we do.
High mpg car??? They don’t make those and they aren’t trying. A Honda CRX in the 80’s got 40+ mpg and they act like 30+ mpg is amazing. Give me a break. (They being the car manufacturers)
Truth is our reefs are declining. Can’t say it is just human’s are at fault. Or energy usage is at fault. Hell higher CO2 should result in higher dissolved co2 into the oceans and higher plant growth!
Oil…look up algabioreactors, some guys are doing some amazing work with algae and extracting the lipid oil from it to create biodiesel (and other petrol based type products, biogas, ect). They use curtains to grown the algae for higher surface area. It ends up with more oil production per acre than anyother crop (the closest being soy). I believe the end statstic came to something like if 1/7th of USA’s corn fields were converted it would be more than enough oil for North America yearly. Or something like that.
I’ve got a VHO ballast and might put some VHO’s in my tank for the time being. Jon, do you guys have internal reflector VHOs in stock?
We don’t have any VHOs in stock, but then again I doubt any LFS in DE does. We can usually get them in less then a week though. Just give the store a ring.
Cows make more emissions then we do? I’ve heard they are absolutely horrible with what they put out, but then again would cows be anything like they are now if we hadn’t been selective breading them for thousands of years? We also just about cleaned out their natural predators and gut load them like crazy. You can’t look at a toy poodle and say mother nature makes some ugly critters, we did that to.
I had read another article that in fact up to 75% of the increased cattle methane production is from low grade feed, but they do raise other emissions levels drastically, which may or may not be contributed to by humans. Bottom line is we aren’t ‘destroying our earth’, we’re just making it inhabitable for humans.
Then call me selfish, cause I like living here and I don’t want to move my tanks again. 
Cows are NOTHING like what they would have turned into through evolution if humans were around and that’s the bottom line. The size of each one of them and the number at which they are present is a direct results of us.
Of course after saying this I’m going to go to Mc. Donalds and grab a cheesburger for breakfast.
Of course after saying this I'm going to go to Mc. Donalds and grab a cheesburger for breakfast.
My idol :-)lol
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Of course after saying this I’m going to go to Mc. Donalds and grab a cheesburger for breakfast. [/quote]
At least Jon is doing his part to cut down on the number of cattle… one burger at a time 
You should see how many chicken nuggets, I mean chickens I’ve took care of in the last month, lol.