[Killietalk] Fishroom Lighting

[Charles & Sue Harrison <csharrison at inkmaker_net>]

I have been having questions about the same 
thing. Need to have lighting for myself to be 
able o see the sink, the worms, the fruit fly 
cultures, and other live foods I've got for the 
fish then be able to clean filters and tanks, so 
I need to have lighting for myself. On the other 
hand, that much lighting would be enough light to 
put algae in all the tanks and force me to use 
rooted plans to use up all of the energy just to 
keep the algae from taking over. I've opted for 
these 18" under the counter kitchen lights for 
most of the fish tanks in my fish room so I've 
gotta move em from place to place, tank to tank, 
to see what's going on inside the tanks and have 
installed a few 24" T 12 lights permanently above 
some 10's and 20's and have to be careful of the 
algae/rooted plants to take care of the extra 
light and so I've mixed things up quite a bit and 
at the same time trying to balance the light for 
the fish, the light for the plants, and work 
lights for myself against the heat that develops 
from the lights inside the room. My room is 16 x 
18, no outside lighting.

I have found that the newer T-8, 32 watt lights 
give considerably more light with less heat than 
the same size 40 watt T-12 lamps. I've got some 
more tanks to set up and I'm really not sure 
whether I should go with the individual lights or 
light the room indirectly.

Wife says she doesn't like walking into the room 
and looking at the tanks and not being able to 
see anything but the light in the room. The tank 
fronts just reflect the light from the indirect 
lighting. So you got some more ideas, group? I'd 
like to hear them too.
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>From: BigJohnW at webtv_net (John Wubbolt)
>Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Fishroom Lighting
>To: caraway1 at centurytel_net (George & Melanie Caruso),
>	killietalk at aka_org (killifish	discussion list)
>
>i have a window in my fishroom, well second bedroom converted to hold my
>bigger tanks.   In this room i use timers on my lights even though i get
>natural lighting through a small window.   I set the timers to come on
>at 2pm and go off at like 11pm.   I grow several types of floating
>plants, anubias's , java ferns and java moss.  timers can be had at
>wally world for like $4 each, as ive cut back on number of tanks i now
>have an excess of brand new ones on my stock shelves...  They are
>certainly the way to go with lights over fish tanks...
>
>John


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