Lights!!!

Is there any way I could make homemade lights not for corals I got an aggressive tank;D;D but still good enough to bring out the fish;D

 

What kind of fish, what size (dimensions) of the tank, and what kind of corals do you want to keep?

 

forgive him its knee jerk reaction to all lighting questions on this forum lol.

what kind of look do want a bluish one like reef or a 10k look like most fresh tanks. or redder 6500k like planted tanks

 

Depends on the length of the tank, but a normal shop light type fixture will work, you would just want like one plant grow bulb and a actinic to make the tank look nice.

Kim

 

actinic to make the fish look good and it's a 265 gallon no coral aggressive tank no fish yet still working on it just planning ahead of time.

 

a good blue look huh? that will be tough considering i dont really know any good blue lights beside blacklight(bad for fishes eyes so no,no)

have you considered using t5 or pc or vho lights, like a reef tank but just with less wattage(so alot cheaper). personally i think this would be the best suggestion.

you could always just do NO(regular flourescent) with aquarium bulbs.

since your want a blue look i think your stuck with specialty bulbs what ever you do.
i suppose you could do led, but tangster could advise you better then i in that
they say he can tell his ph and salinity just by taste.;D

 

A cheap set of T5's from aquatraders would do nicely. Edit, they probably don't have any for a tank of that size.

Are you building a canopy? If you are doing a canopy just use a few T5 retrofits you can find online. T5's are nice and bright and will illuminate your tank nicely, you just don't have to worry about high intensity since you're not doing corals.

 

Just get some used PC lights.. The tank will look pretty ugly with regular spectrum bulbs. I t will look dirty and yellow.. I hooked up my two 500 watt shop lights above the tank it it look very yellow.