i use aquarium lights made by philips. i bought it at home depot and the packaging said energy effeciant lol. but i gives off an orange-y color. i like it a lot.
yah i agree sunlight does save the money but since it is approaching closer to winter iam getting less time with a lighted tank.
what i have been thinking of is to use as low a watt bulb that i can get and get the "hood" for it and mount it from the ceiling or build lifts to raise it above the tank a bit, or one of those twisted bulbs in lampthat sits off to the side.
Also even in summmer my sunlight wasn't enough to kep algae alive , i wanted my tank to have a blanket of it but evry time i introduced algae from ponds and other tanks it just seems to die off in a month. so my tank seem sto be algae proof so no worries abot algae.
I used a single Home Deport t8 light for mine, but the funny thing is that for a moonlight I use a Cold Cathode light using 12 volt dc using 5 amps, and I can see the tank clear as day at night time.
I have often wondered if I could get away with using a cold cathode for day time viewing but never checked it out. the LED is see use about 7 to 15watts of light I would guess that this would be barely more effective then using a single t8 or t5 fixture. unless you could get buy with using a single 7 watt LED
i use aquarium lights made by philips. i bought it at home depot and the packaging said energy effeciant lol. but i gives off an orange-y color. i like it a lot.
