Lighting?

[MollyGreenCheeks]

Molly, the thing is it greatly diminishes each time you use it. In the reef club I was in we've tested the bulbs at different age and we see how fast they change. Unless you can purchase a new bulb once a week to a month, your actually wasting your time trying to achieve the same wave length as the greater wave length bulbs creates more heat then we want, cost a lot more too....

I'm aware that the lights age effects it's effectiveness. In fact mist of the reputable companies recommend replacing them semi annually. I would personally continue to use them for at least a year as long as I can still see the colors being brought out when the feathers are underneath them.