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Re: [APD] lighting on the cheap
Hello lights does make some outdoor compact flourescent fixtures that
use very high wattage bulbs.
http://www.lightsofamerica.com/floods.htm
Ones like these retail for under $40 and could be fixed to work over
aquariums.
-Nick
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aquatic-plants-bounces at actwin_com
> [mailto:aquatic-plants-bounces at actwin_com] On Behalf Of Vaughn Hopkins
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 11:46 PM
> To: aquatic plants digest
> Subject: Re: [APD] lighting on the cheap
>
> Eli, I don't think I have yet seen a screw in fluorescent bulb with a
> 85 watt rating. The biggest I have seen are some monsters,
> with mushroom shape, made for photography, but I don't recall
> them being as big as 85 watts. If that type is what you are
> thinking about, it would probably work as pendant lights if
> you used good reflectors made for the bulbs, and those are
> available too. (But, I recall the cost for even one such
> combination being almost the full $80 you mentioned.) I
> suggest, as I always do, that you look at AH Supply light
> kits - three 96 watt kits would work very well I would think,
> and you could make the housing for them pretty cheaply.
>
> Vaughn H.
>
> On Monday, April 17, 2006, at 06:49 PM, Eli Moss wrote:
>
> > I'm looking at the possibility of a 140-gallon aquarium with all
> > equipment except lighting included, mine for the reasonable
> price of
> > FREE. It's a tremendously lucky break, especially for a broke
> > highschooler. The issue of light is a bit of a thorn in my side,
> > though. Up till now I've just been using four foot
> shoplights, which
> > work for my 40g high and my homemade 90g terrarium. I was
> looking at
> > VHO compact fluorescent and metal halide options, which are all far
> > too expensive for me. An idea I had is to just use about four 85w
> > screw-in compact fluorescent bulbs suspended just above the water.
> > I'd get away with the lighting for about eighty dollars,
> which seems
> > way too good to be true. Is there anything inherently
> wrong with this
> > idea?
> >
> > Eli
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