DIY lighting

tiggerbengal

tiggerbengal

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I am wondering if I can buy a shop light fixture for my 125 from either Lowe's or Home Depot. Right now I have only a 50 watt bulb on my tank .... I'm kind of in a weird situation: I have the glass lids on my tank, and only a single light strip will fit on my tank. Does anyone have any suggestions? Would the shop lights work and could I put acintics in there? I can't even put my canopy back on because of my prizm skimmer because it is too tall.
 
justinl

justinl

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Well you might want to try one of those fluorex worklights from walmart. I've been reading a lot of posts lately about those. Supposedly they give off good light for an aquarium (the proper spectrums).
I doubt you could put an actinic in there. But it's cheap and if it don't work just take it back to walmart. I'm sure you could get creative and find a way to rig it up though.
 
headabovewater

headabovewater

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I bought a worklight from Lowes for $7. Then bought 2 quality bulbs. It works fine. I plan on buying another one and putting it in my canopy. To give me a total of 160 Watts of NO on my 55 gallon tank. Since it seems NO is better quality light watt per watt. So far with 2 blubs Ive got some mushrooms, button polyps and a toadstool. They all seem to be doing fine. I was looking under the the hoods at the LFS and they did the same thing on all there FO tanks.
 
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