[Bushpig2]

Hello everyone!

I'm about to order the white cold cathodes for my 55g and I was wondering if 4 would be overkill? I'm just not to sure if just 2 12" would be ample lighting for the 4' of tank.

Thanks in advance!

 

[GTZ]

Are these for moonlighting? I think 2 would be sufficient.

 

[Bushpig2]

No, they would be used for just the normal lighting.

 

[GTZ]

I'm not aware of any cathodes that would be bright enough to be used as the main lighting in a tank. Perhaps I'm out of the loop on this tho

 

[Bushpig2]

Ah, ok. I've never seen/heard it done either. I guess I could get 4, wire em up with one of the adjustable RS dc>ac adapter and crank up the voltage to make them bright enough? I do plan on having 2 blue for moonlighting though.

 

[trigger]

If you hook up enough you might get enough light, but the life span of the things is really really bad. I stoped using them for moonlight, because I had to replace them every 10 months or so.

 

[GTZ]

I think there would be a lot more people using cathodes for main aquarium lighting if they were bright enough, which leads me to believe that they aren't. I could be wrong, but I don't think so

 

[Bushpig2]

Got it. Ill look into setting up some LEDs then. Thanks everyone.

 

[Bushpig2]

I ended up getting this sweet rig from **** electronics. I'm cost about the same as a Marineland 24" Double LED light fixture after I got all the right connectors and heat shrink to water/condensation proof all the connections.

Its called OLS LED lighting, about $39 for the main unit with the remote and multi color LEDs. And then $24 for two more 12" LED light strips plus and 12" extention cable. I had to get an cable splitter/extender to get the set up I wanted and that was another $12. So it after taxes and another extension cable for $7 it came out to be around $92.

Its got an IR remote that you can change the LEDs color, fade one color, flash through all the colors and flash red, green and blue. It runs off a 12v power adapter that came with it.

I'm sorry to talk about and not having pictures to explain it and show what I've done, BUT I should be adding water, gravel and my THR by the end of the week so I should have pictures by the end of the week so bear with me!

Thanks, Pat

 

[newforestrob]

I'm posting this for visual reference,correct me if this isn;t what you have :thumb:

 

[Bushpig2]

Yes! That's exactly what I have, its pretty snazzy.