fuge lighting

[frlejo]

lights of america makes a 65 watt coompact flourscent bulb (equal to about a 180 regular bulb), uses the mogul socket. would this work as a fuge light? has a 6500 kelvin rating, I can't remeber what spectrum hair algea grows at. I want to use my sumo as a fuge, & softie frag tank.thanks

[Wiskey]

That's very simaler to the light I use for my fuges,.. only I have one with a built in reflector (It's a spotlight style). It works very well for me, 6500K is about ideal.

Whiskey

[frlejo]

what do you use for a ballast for your bulb, really do not want to put a floodlight fixture under my tank for a ballast, this bulb does not have a ballast built in to the bulb

[Wiskey]

Oh,.. mine has a ballast built into the bulb,.. it's one of the floodlight things with the built in ballast. I'm not sure what ballast you need.

Whiskey

[frlejo]

If your could tell me what bulb you have, icould use the same one, i think

[Wiskey]

Found it!!

http://melevsreef.com/fuge_bulb.html

Whiskey

[Wiskey]

Look toward the bottom where he starts talking about the 5100K model,.. I guess that's the one I use now. I used to use the normal spyral one with a seperate refelctor, that was 6500K.

Whiskey

[Geoff]

i have been using a LOA light for 5 years. they now come in wattages up to 100w!! i plan on getting one of these to put over my sump. mainly to light the sump area, but also just in case i need to put a few frags down there.

G~

[VWD]

LOA also here, I use the Daylight bulbs, They work great and are cheap