moon lights
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How bright is that at night Jcardona1? Any tank shots with just that light? I am assuming blue light bulbs too?
I went to autozone and got 24" blue flexible LED strips that have double sided tape for mounting. Just taped em inside my light fixtures pointing straight down, soldered on an adapter to plug it into an adjustable ac adapter and voila. Moonlights.
Probably more expensive than the christmas light LED way, but I didn't really want to put a separate light fixture on my tank (yet) and I could only find blue in strips of 100, which was way too much. Hindsight 20/20 I probably should have just gone with the christmas lights, dealt with a small fixture on the tank behind my real light and spent all of 20 bucks rather than 60 (2 sets of LED's: 40$, ac adapter: 20$, would have been another 20$ but I already had one of the ac adapters laying around)
Probably more expensive than the christmas light LED way, but I didn't really want to put a separate light fixture on my tank (yet) and I could only find blue in strips of 100, which was way too much. Hindsight 20/20 I probably should have just gone with the christmas lights, dealt with a small fixture on the tank behind my real light and spent all of 20 bucks rather than 60 (2 sets of LED's: 40$, ac adapter: 20$, would have been another 20$ but I already had one of the ac adapters laying around)
Not really, kind of depends on you. I used the whole pack of 60 sold at walmart.
jvin85;4691752; said:
Depends on the size and depth of your tank.....I am going with full LED lighting on my 150 tall project. I will if the four moon lights in my fixture are enough.....I doubt it. I will kick down 60. and get a nice strip. Good things about the LED: very low energy cost, no bulb replacement, virtually no heat, and you just run em all the time and have your normal fixtures shut down as usual! Plus you getg that natural looking shimmer in your tank.....love it or not!jvin85;4691752;4691752 said:
really its personal preference with the "moons" brightness!..if you like a brighter view with blue at night, then you'll probably use a lighter blue, with more of the lights, but if you like the deep night blue color, just get darker spectrum LEDS, maybe a few or so, and space them out.. and itll be a cool scene too.
Sorry for the late reply. No blue lights. I was using this as a cheap night light when I had my silver aro since he would freak out at night. It casted a dim white glow in the tank, not bright, but just so I could barely see the fish which is what I wanted.Cookie*420;4567285;4567285 said: