Going Solar

[soulFish]

thinking of going solar. Building a reef tank which is going to have huge lighting demands and in CA this is gonna be bucks. I stumbled upon a thread in reef central of a few folks that are now starting to us solar light tubes to light their tanks during the days, then using T5's to suppliment at night. I was wondering if anyone here is doing this. It may cost alittle up front but the saving start immediatly. Here are a few picts from the site and this guys tank.

Here is the original thread

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1457056&perpage=25&pagenumber=1

Anyone try this in Freshwater? Same ideas can be used to grow a planted tank. The night shot of his roof is awesome with the T5's shining out! guess it works in reverse!

 

[loach43]

I considered getting some of those for my fish room but at roughly $250 each for the small ones, I passed. Looks like those be a good thing for freshwater too, especially for plants and inducing fish to spawn. The ones I saw were angled so that outer dome would be flush to the slant of the roof.

 

[Tongue33]

And I thought I was a serious hobbiest!!!!