Pictures of Fishneedit.com lights

Since I know everyone likes pictures (me included), I thought I would throw up some pics of a light I have been putting together from fishneedit.com. The light has two 150w metal halide pendants and two (2 X 39W) T5 fixtures with actinic bulbs. The light is designed to be pieced together, which was helpful as I was able to buy a part at a time when in the budget. The total light cost was around $450.

I have been running the Metal halides for several months now and have been very happy with them. So for those of you who are interested, the pictures:


T5 Fixtures




Halide Pendants



All together



Brackets to connect Halides to T5's





Light connected together



Inside canopy

 

Very nice. I love that setup.

Tank looks good too.....;D

 

very nice.any heat problems...

 

How are you liking them? I thought about buying t-5 or halides from them as well.

 

Nothing major for heat problems. The tank stays around 82 all the time and that is with just a 12v computer fan blowing onto the tank water. Most of my heat problems are because of living in Phoenix. I keep the house at 80 to keep the power bills down, today it was 109 outside so to keep the house any cooler cost a lot.

 

I really like the Halides, I upgraded from PC's so that could be partially why I see such a big difference. For the price though, $129 a pendant they have been great no regrets so far.

 

Thanks!

 

jeez they have awesome prices on mh pendants compared to others i have looked at

that is an awesome lighting system

looks awesome!

 

Wow those are some cheap pendants. What k ratings are those metal halide bulbs?

 

I went with the 14K bulbs, looking back though I think I would have liked the 20k bulbs.