Im looking at lighting a small corner tank and one of the obvious problems is heat.
Cold Cathode is often used by people to eulate "moonlight" so im thinking to myself, why not use a pair of White cold cathodes to light it "day" time?
Any thoughts on this and the effects of white cold cathode on plants?
The reason for looking at cold cathode is exactly that - its cold.
You can put in standard lighting, but it would need to be vented, probably by a smal computer fan, which is noise. For a bedroom tank, not good...
pst im going ahead with this anyway to experiment with as I have white & blue cold cathodes lying around anyway.
building a wooden lid with feeding/fish access, built in cold cathode lighting, a single switch to switch on day, on night and off and a dimmer for the "moonlight". Bonus will be that the lighting will be changable, so I can change it to something more suitable if wanted
EDIT: Im just thinking, this may be better off in the Planted section, can a mod move it if possible rather than duplicating posts?
Cold Cathode is often used by people to eulate "moonlight" so im thinking to myself, why not use a pair of White cold cathodes to light it "day" time?
Any thoughts on this and the effects of white cold cathode on plants?
The reason for looking at cold cathode is exactly that - its cold.
You can put in standard lighting, but it would need to be vented, probably by a smal computer fan, which is noise. For a bedroom tank, not good...
pst im going ahead with this anyway to experiment with as I have white & blue cold cathodes lying around anyway.
building a wooden lid with feeding/fish access, built in cold cathode lighting, a single switch to switch on day, on night and off and a dimmer for the "moonlight". Bonus will be that the lighting will be changable, so I can change it to something more suitable if wanted
EDIT: Im just thinking, this may be better off in the Planted section, can a mod move it if possible rather than duplicating posts?
