Did I Do It Right? Pictures Included

[Ilya]

I bought 3 incandescent lights. 2 x 25 watt and 1 x 15 watt. And it equals out to roughly 3 watts per gallon. However, it's not so bright. It's a little yellowish, and I kind of miss my high kelvin fluorescent light , the light now has kind of a yellow ish tint. Also, I bought clear bulbs. I didn't want coral or any other coloured bulb >.<.

Before:

After (with flash):

Without flash:

The lights with reflectors:

It's a reptile light. The store didn't sell 24" aquarium incandescent lights, plus it doesn't fit very well. I'm looking for an aquarium light that has 1 fluorescent tube slot, and 2 incandescent 25 watt slots.

 

[Themuleous]

You should really have got fluorescent bulbs, incandescent bulbs are hugely inefficient, and as you have found out they tend to be very yellow. If you can replace these with fluorescent bulbs of around 6500k then you should get a much whiter light produced.

Sam

 

[Ilya]

Yeah, I bought DayLight 23 Watt fluorescent bulbs.

What do you think?

 

[Themuleous]

Much better the colour is much better too IMO