NIght lights

[ncbuckeye]

Does anyone have any idea's for lighting that I can use to observe my nocternal fish and my cray fish? It's going to have to be on the afordable side. And is there any color preferences. I have a 30 and 29 gal fresh water tanks that I'm interested in lighting.

[travie]

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Thats a link to DIY moonlights by Goshawk. Not sure how much it cost though.

[Lady Hobbs]

Me too. I also want some night lights other than the one across the room! I was thinking of using one of my tank lights and putting the bulb in a plastic blue sleeve.

[travie]

You will just have to be concerned with the plastic melting from the heat of the light.

[Lady Hobbs]

That's what they are made for. Shatter-guards are what they're called and put over fluorescent tubes in case they break.

[travie]

Guess, I never heard of them before. I wish I had fish besides my cories that were active at night to have a need for moonlights.

[Dsoto87]

This ([Only Registered Users Can See Links.])cheap enough?

[jbeining75]

Black lights or diy moonlights is your best bet. Most of the retail lights use leds as night lights....

[ILuvMyGoldBarb]

Best lighting for observing your nocturnal fish is a low powered red LED light. It has been reported that most fish can't see red light and therefore act as though there is no light on at all.

[Futureboy]

black lights will make your tank look filthy they show up every speck of dust in the water go for a blue light of some sort neon tube, shatterguard, leds anything really

you can make great moon lighting with simple things like cold cathode kits for computers and neon lighting strips for cars (thats what i did)

just hook em up to an powerpack and go

[Tooch]

They make moon lighting for tanks that I've seen at places like Pet Supplies Plus. You could also do your own with outside LED's made for cars, that you can get pretty cheap at Advanced Auto Parts or Pepboys. You would just need to cut the wires and hook it up to a power supply of the same voltage.

[Lady Hobbs]

This ([Only Registered Users Can See Links.])cheap enough?

Hong Kong?


Travie....just to show what they look like. HomeDepot has them
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[fins_n_fur]

Here's a sugguestion if you want a blue color, but they come in red and green (at least in Europe), and they have some models with a light and aerator together. I have one on a 120g, but it's not nearly enough...I think you'd have to buy one and go from there.

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[Lady Hobbs]

Best lighting for observing your nocturnal fish is a low powered red LED light. It has been reported that most fish can't see red light and therefore act as though there is no light on at all.

Awesome tip!

[A340]

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Cheap, can go inside your tank, outside your tank, easy to position, give off great light, available in blue, white, red or green and built by Hagen. Doesn't get any easier, better or cheaper than that.