A Night-light Tank?

[GoldfishAttentionSpan]

I recently moved the five gallon tank with a betta into my room, and I love how it looks when the light is on at night. However, I know the fish probably dosen't, so I don't leave it on.

I would love to have a tank I could leave on at night. It dosen't have to have fish, though that would be neat. I don't want it over 5 gallons, so we are looking at 1 to 5 US gallons.

I am terrible with plants (just ask the few brown leaves left of my java fern) but a tank with a few plastic plants would be rather boring! I was thinking maybe some snails or something? Would semi-constant light bother snails? (I could turn it off during the day while I'm gone.) Or maybe shrimp, or a blind fish that wouldn't care about light?

I know I am wanting this tank for ornamental reasons, but of course they are living creatures, and I will treat them as such. If the novelty wears off, either the occupants will move in with the betta in the 10 gallon, the betta in the 5 gallon, or it will just be treated as an ordinary tank.

Any suggestions?

 

[erk628]

I recently moved the five gallon tank with a betta into my room, and I love how it looks when the light is on at night. However, I know the fish probably dosen't, so I don't leave it on.

I would love to have a tank I could leave on at night. It dosen't have to have fish, though that would be neat. I don't want it over 5 gallons, so we are looking at 1 to 5 US gallons.

I am terrible with plants (just ask the few brown leaves left of my java fern) but a tank with a few plastic plants would be rather boring! I was thinking maybe some snails or something? Would semi-constant light bother snails? (I could turn it off during the day while I'm gone.) Or maybe shrimp, or a blind fish that wouldn't care about light?

I know I am wanting this tank for ornamental reasons, but of course they are living creatures, and I will treat them as such. If the novelty wears off, either the occupants will move in with the betta in the 10 gallon, the betta in the 5 gallon, or it will just be treated as an ordinary tank.

Any suggestions?

All you need to do is get a blue light that resembles moonlight they sell a wide varity and you could use this in your betta tank and it shouldn't bother him, then during the day run your regular light.

 

[wendywc]

Just put in a blue LED light in the existing betta tank. You can have it on a timer too if you want, but it should be fine to have on all night long.

http/www.drsfostersmith.com/Product/Prod...p;N=2004+113544


EDIT: You beat me to it, erk628

 

[erk628]

Just put in a blue LED light in the existing betta tank. You can have it on a timer too if you want, but it should be fine to have on all night long.

http/www.drsfostersmith.com/Product/Prod...p;N=2004+113544


EDIT: You beat me to it, erk628

Yup great minds think alike some just a little faster lol.

 

[wendywc]

haha, I was trying to find a link to a cheap moonlight for him. <--- That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

 

[erk628]

haha, I was trying to find a link to a cheap moonlight for him. <--- That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

While I was writing my post that was the exact link I was thinking of, remember seeing them last time I was looking at there magizine. I was thinking about coming back and posting the link but you beat me to it, so were even now lol. One thing to remember with those lights you can either buy a kit that comes with one light and the thing to plug the light in. Or if you want more then one light you will need to buy a hub which if you go get the lights at the pet store the hub will be there, with the hub you can plug in 3 lights.

 

[Tolak]

I set up a hood with a 7w blue sign bulb a few years back. It does a nice job, but if I ever do another one I'd go with the leds that are linked to. The leds pull one watt, and they are jacking my electric rates here. I'll bet if I switched it now it would pay for itself in a year.

 

[erk628]

I set up a hood with a 7w blue sign bulb a few years back. It does a nice job, but if I ever do another one I'd go with the leds that are linked to. The leds pull one watt, and they are jacking my electric rates here. I'll bet if I switched it now it would pay for itself in a year.

Does those lights from that site cover a wide area of the tank or just the spot its pointed to.

 

[Tolak]

The site says every 2 feet for optimal viewing. I have my 7w deal on a 3 foot 65 gallon, which is a 24" deep tank, and it does light to the bottom. I was thinking a couple of the leds, might combine a blue at one end & a red at the other just to see what it looks like. If it looks ugly I'll just send one or the other back.