Need lighting suggestions and help finding parts!

[wildosworld]

I have a 48" coralife light that has (4) 24" bulbs and 4 blue leds in the back. Question 1: I need to replace the black plastic housing for the connectors.....where can I find those? See pics below... Question 2: what lighting (bulbs) should I buy for this if I'm planning to use it for a reef tank? Thanks in advance!

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[wildosworld]

The one current bulb that is in it is a 65 w, 10k

[johnnymisty]

If theres 2 switches to control the different pc bulbs id go with 2 10k bulbs and 2 actinic if one switch controls all pc bulbs 50/50 bulbs will be fine and check the coralife website for the conectors

[crazy42bmx]

Those connectors look good, it may be the ballest that fires the lamps thats actually bad. If so you'll have to get a new one and wire it in. Ballest for pc lights are harder to find then t5 or t8 !

[wildosworld]

Well, those are the good connectors. The bad ones basically snapped in half.... I've had no luck finding them on the coralife site tho. Grrr...

Johnny: That's what I was curious about! It does have multiple switches, but I didn't think I would need 4 bright white bulbs. So, the actinic bulbs would be good for the other 2 slots? What exactly is an actinic bulb?

[johnnymisty]

Ya it would be those bulbs are pricey so check multiple places for them actinic are the blue bulbs they bring out the colors in the corals

[wildosworld]

So, would I run them at the same time I run the bright whites? I only ask because it alreadt has 4 blue led's (on a separate switch) for the "moonlighting".

[jughead]

Light bulb depot on Arlington st. should have those sockets

[johnnymisty]

Ya whites and actinic run same time you can run actinic by themselves to see the color pop led moonlight is for night time

[wildosworld]

Great to know, thanks! And I may have to call Light bulb depot in the morning! Thanks all!