I am putting the "final" touches on my canopy for my plywood tank and I was wondering, would Christmas lights work? I'm no electrician (though I wasn't a carpenter or plumber either when I started this) but I'm sure they could be put on a dimmer switch some how, and I could put them on a times to switch from the white to blue at night. I was just looking through lights and found that they now have indoor/outdoor led Christmas lights, and I was wanting to do leds in my canopy, just thought maybe it'd make it easier and more cost efficient (seeing as how I should be able to pick up a years supply after Christmas for 1/2 price). I don't so plants, I just need something to put some light on the fish, and they will be catfish (hopefully) so I don't need anything too bright, just wanted some opinions....
Christmas lights, would it work?
- Thread starter laura65536
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Rope lights on a timer work great.
indoor outdoor x-mass lights should work fine.
2 timers 1 for white lights one for blue lights no dimmer needed.
indoor outdoor x-mass lights should work fine.
2 timers 1 for white lights one for blue lights no dimmer needed.
I just made an assembly with ten Christmas(BLUE) LED lights for my 125g. A set of 6 LED moon lights are 25 bucks at my LFS. The Christmas lights were less than 5$.....NICE
Go with the LED's for safety anyway, then saving money is just a plus. Get lights rated for outdoor use.
Light a tank brightly. a string of a 100. If it's too brite add some SPF 47.5
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If you nocturnal fish pick up some red ones too and switch between them.
Dr Joe
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Light a tank brightly. a string of a 100. If it's too brite add some SPF 47.5
.If you nocturnal fish pick up some red ones too and switch between them.
Dr Joe
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my DIY christmas light/moonlight hood:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50278
that hood was just for the prototype I have since purchased a empty shop light hood and hot glued the LED's in place so they are all pointing down and not in random directions like they were.Also added another strand bringing the total LED count up to 300 on a 250 gallon tank.....
Its bright for a moonlight yeah but not to the point that my nocturnal stuff won't come out.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50278
that hood was just for the prototype I have since purchased a empty shop light hood and hot glued the LED's in place so they are all pointing down and not in random directions like they were.Also added another strand bringing the total LED count up to 300 on a 250 gallon tank.....
Its bright for a moonlight yeah but not to the point that my nocturnal stuff won't come out.
Dr Joe;1341073; said:Go with the LED's for safety anyway, then saving money is just a plus. Get lights rated for outdoor use.
Light a tank brightly. a string of a 100. If it's too brite add some SPF 47.5
If you nocturnal fish pick up some red ones too and switch between them.
Dr Joe
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Okay, not to sound dumb, but how are they safer? (not saying they aren't, I'm just asking)
The ones I was looking at say indoor/outdoor, should I find something strictly for outdoor or will those work? And I don't' have a string of leds, but a string of 200 regular lights is just about perfect, so I am guessing you're right on the money with the string of 100 since the leds are brighter.
Also, I had planned on getting white and then blue for moon lights, is the red better, or is that instead of the white sometimes? I will hopefully have catfish in here, so they will be nocturnal fish, and I've seen the red lights for sale, just had no idea what they were for...