Just seeing if this has happened to anyone....
Several months ago I bought 2 60" 80 watt ati aqua blue special bulbs and they have been sitting in their wrappers since then...well I finally(2 tanks later) bought a fixture to run these as supplements on my 300
The fixture I bought is an oddysea 4 bulb unit with external ballasts and it came with 2 white bulbs and 2 actinics which all work fine but I figured the atis have to be better than the whites that came with it
Here's my issue...the whites that came with light just fine like I said but the atis only light at the ends and the center of the bulbs have those lines moving back and for like the bulb is bad??? Is it just 2 brand new bad bulbs(doubtful) or with the ballast just not fire the atis correctly??
A little more info...the ati bulbs both of them only light about 8 inches in on each end and the rest of the bulb is very very dim
What I tried...I put one of the original white bulbs in with an ati on the other side since each ballast runs 2 bulbs and the original white one lit and the ati was the same...only lit at ends...I tried this with both atis with the same result
Any ideas??
Stewie
Several months ago I bought 2 60" 80 watt ati aqua blue special bulbs and they have been sitting in their wrappers since then...well I finally(2 tanks later) bought a fixture to run these as supplements on my 300
The fixture I bought is an oddysea 4 bulb unit with external ballasts and it came with 2 white bulbs and 2 actinics which all work fine but I figured the atis have to be better than the whites that came with it
Here's my issue...the whites that came with light just fine like I said but the atis only light at the ends and the center of the bulbs have those lines moving back and for like the bulb is bad??? Is it just 2 brand new bad bulbs(doubtful) or with the ballast just not fire the atis correctly??
A little more info...the ati bulbs both of them only light about 8 inches in on each end and the rest of the bulb is very very dim
What I tried...I put one of the original white bulbs in with an ati on the other side since each ballast runs 2 bulbs and the original white one lit and the ati was the same...only lit at ends...I tried this with both atis with the same result
Any ideas??
Stewie
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