Coralife Mini Compact 50/50 bulb?

[Tanked]

I bought a Foster Smith light fixture recently. It does not have an actinic bulb in it so I thought an easy way to add one would be one of these $10 50/50 bulbs I can screw into a standard light socket. Anyone else trying this?

[revance]

So the bulb you have now is 10,000K only? What is the wattage? Which Mini Compact bulb are you looking at, the 10 or 20w? The reason I ask is this...

 

Lets say you have a 55w 10,000k bulb and you want to add some actinic... well if you add a 20w 50/50 bulb, thats like having 10w actinic and 65w of 10,000k... you probably aren't even going to notice the actinic.

[Tanked]

The bulbs in the fixture I have are aledgedly 2 X 18 watts. I did read somewhere in this forum that these bulbs might actually be 24 watts a piece.

Thanks for the heads up revance. I don'y suppose there's an actinic bulb available that screws into a standard light socket?

[CT nano reefer]

i have 2 slightly used screw in coralife 50/50 bulbs if you need them...let me know, maybe we can work something out!

[revance]

I don't think anybody has a actinic only self ballasted (screw in) bulb. Nothing to lose I guess... more light is always nice, even if it doesn't increase the actinic much.

[CT nano reefer]

the coralife screw in bulbs i have, are duel tube...one side has 10k, and the other is 03 actinic

[holyherbiness]

I've yet to see a screw in PC that has only actinic. Almost all are 50/50s. I think. The bulbs from Drsfostersmith fixtures are all 6500k (but they profess that the color is actually bluer).