Recent content by Local_42

Odd.....Here in the Sacramento area every shop has a constant stock of Bio-Spira on hand and has since the beginning of summer. How is it possible no one else has any?

You are dead on about Lumens, the human eye ect ect. For instance, Mercury Vapor Lights and Metal Halide lights appear to be brighter and much whiter then High Pressure Sodium to the human eye. However, whilst working for WM I found that the HPS lights put out more Lumens per watt, even if they...

I took those specs from a site that had that particular GE Brightstick for sale. I was also a little shocked that it called out 750 lumens. the info might have been inacurate, I just type 'em as I read 'em. I believe a 100W incandescent is about 1750 Lumens and your standard 3200K fluorescent...

http://www.craigcentral.com/mystuff.asp There is a tank data manager on this page as well as a fish data manager. I use both and am pleased with how they track data. then again I like things simple and straight forward.

The FBS25/WX is rated at 33W and 750 Lumens with a 5000 hour service life. Try doing a search on the part# specific to your GE Brightstick. You can ignore the rest of this post; It is just babble. I have a feeling these bulbs don't put out much visible light per watt. Keep in mind that when...

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks these are very poorly taxidermied specimens. The googly eyes are also not my cup of tea. Then again I don't really like the idea of keeping taxidermied animals these days... I have a taxidermied puffer somewhere in my collection of misc. junk. The...

Edit: Didn't see you had posted a reply informing us it was on concrete. disregard...