whatcha got

lets hear what kind of light you have.

on my fish only tanks i use N.O. (normal output) flourecent bulbs.

my 75 has a shop light from lowes with 2- 40watt natural sunlight bulbs made by phillips. it put off beautiful light.

on my 20 long convict tank i have the all-glass fixture that came with the tank and i use a aqua-life bulb from petsmart. it has a great spectrum of colors

on my lightly planted 10 gallon guppie tank i use N.O. flourecent with an Eclipse-natural sunlight bulb from marineland,

and on my heavily planted 55 gallon dwarf tank I use PC. its a 48" coral-life, 135 watt, and 6500k bulbs

metal halide, compact flouro and moon lights. Everything can live in my tank. Not cheap but well worth the money!

On my 75 I have a dual 4 ft florescent shop light with 2 40w plant/aquarium bulbs. Its also near a window that gets indirect sunlight.
My 20.... I will have to get back with you.
My 10 has the 2 screw in florescent bulbs it came with (CL buy)


Ha ha I didnt look close enough at the post Those are all fresh water tanks

130 wat power compact, 2 actinic and 2 10,000k

got a shop light with 2- 32watt bulbs made by phillips on my so called 55 salt the tank and sump/refugium is one unit so the tank part is only l40 will the back of it is 10-15 gallons.

oh I also got [size=40]LOVE[/size] love is what I got, I said love is what I got. damn he will be missed, sublime.

fishboy, are you using live rock? or is it fish only? if you using LR or want a reef you need more light

4 bulb T5 HO fixture with 2 10,000k and 2 420 NM actinics on my 90

i got 2 65 wat PC's, 1 10,000k and 1 actinic 03(pc's are dual bulbs)

i have a current 4 bulb T5 HO on my 90 and i have had no problems keeping any coral i have ever tried. currently need to replace all my bulbs though

built in PC's on the nano
Sundial T5HO's w/ actinic blue and 4led's on the 55

i got tired of replacing leds on my fixture and made me some moonlights, there is a pic in the diy section which dont do them justice at all.

On my 120 i have a light made by customsealife inc. It is sopose to have 4 96 watt coral life bulbs but i only have two for now ( not alot of $$ for more bulbs). They are a 50/50 and a 10,000k. I think i am going to try the diy moon lights. That wasn't a bad idea!

On my 120 i have a light made by customsealife inc. It is supposed to have 4 96 watt coral life bulbs but i only have two for now ( not allot of $$ for more bulbs). They are a 50/50 and a 10,000k. I think i am going to try the diy moon lights. That wasn't a bad idea!

lgsasquatch wrote:

On my 120 i have a light made by customsealife inc. It is supposed to have 4 96 watt coral life bulbs but i only have two for now ( not allot of $$ for more bulbs). They are a 50/50 and a 10,000k. I think i am going to try the diy moon lights. That wasn't a bad idea!

first off please edit one of your posts because you have a double post (accidets happen), second the reason i did the diy moonlights is because i got tired of replacing teh 4 led's in my coralife fixture (i am assuming the heat from the T5 bulbs were causing the led's to fail) + they were not very bright at all (i have a 4 bulb DIY setup that is brighter than the 4 led's in my light fixture ever were)

The fixture i have has zero moon lights in it, so i was wanting to add some to it.

ok, well if you have a lowes nearby you get one of those halloween strobe light kits (9.99 or so + tax), you can take the box apart or cut the wires from teh box, and wire in a a power supply in the 4.5 to 7 volt range. there are a total of 12 led's on the string and i made 2, one with 4 led's and one with 8 led's depending on teh look you want you can use as few as 1 led off of the string to all 12

lordraptor1 wrote:

ok, well if you have a lowes nearby you get one of those halloween strobe light kits (9.99 or so + tax), you can take the box apart or cut the wires from teh box, and wire in a a power supply in the 4.5 to 7 volt range. there are a total of 12 led's on the string and i made 2, one with 4 led's and one with 8 led's depending on teh look you want you can use as few as 1 led off of the string to all 12

haha thats exactly what I did, except I got it at Party City and it is a 48" Black Light. All I did was replace the bulb and changed out the wires to handle a higher voltage. Great investment for $20 instead of spending over $100 at PetSmart

philuponthepho wrote:

haha thats exactly what I did, except I got it at Party City and it is a 48" Black Light. All I did was replace the bulb and changed out the wires to handle a higher voltage. Great investment for $20 instead of spending over $100 at PetSmart

yes but i happen to have had an old psu lying around. my lights were 9.99 +tax so i spent a little more than 10.00 and all i really had to do was cut the wires from the strobe control box an dsplice the psu to the wires

Nice, thats what smart people do.

philuponthepho wrote:

Nice, thats what smart people do.

yep, then again some people just arent diy savvy. which is why if someone is willing to pay for the supplies plus give me afew buck for labor i will make thing for them. only problem (at least in this case) is the power supplies run 23.00 + tax from radioshack and the lights are 9.99 + tax from lowes making the light 32.00 before taxes and one could order factory ones from online etailers for that (seen moonlights online for 30.00 to 50.00)

Holy cow!, Mine was $10 48 in black light on clearance and the aquarium bulb is $10! Super cheap, all I needed was the cords that I've already had.

philuponthepho wrote:

Holy cow!, Mine was $10 48 in black light on clearance and the aquarium bulb is $10! Super cheap, all I needed was the cords that I've already had.

i am reffering to commercial units selling for 30.00 to 50.00 at online e-tailers, and the power supplies from radio shack being 23.00 (however psu's are not dificult to find in yard sales, etc. for cheap the only problem nowadays if finding a yard sale, etc that has good prices in the first place )