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01-21-2007, 08:42 PM
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is it for quarantining anything photosynthetic? Or is it a nano? I don't know why somone would want bright lights when quarantining a fish. usually NO lights is the recommended thing.
if it IS for things photosynthetic, those "dairyqueen" style PC lights that screw into regular light sockets and have the ballasts built in are often used by nano-reefers. Cheap too, compared to normal PC setups. If you just want a light for over the tank, the coralife normal output T5's are not bad. I have one on my cichlid tank. Not too bright, not too dark, and very compact.
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01-21-2007, 10:28 PM
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Just get a couple of desklamps and put in some 6500K "daylight" screw-in CFs (the aforementioned Dairyqueen soft-serve icecream bulbs).
Your goal is to simply keep anything photosynthetic alive in the QT and not to have to frag it at the end of the month. Worked very for me and my little 10 gallon QT. Ask Seahorse_Fanatic, he keeps well-planted FW tanks under nothing but these things.
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01-22-2007, 01:33 AM
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These are what I'm using. I have two of them (one was supposed to be for my refugium, but I never got round to using it there). I've had no trouble with keeping photosynthetic critters with them.
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01-22-2007, 05:32 AM
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The desk lamp idea is probably the most cost effective. To get 2x27w 6700 (or 6500, don't remember which) bulbs plus light fixtures, you're looking at all of $25 - no they don't have any actinic, but for use in fragging it'd be great - and 1 over for QT would be sufficient at least.
Maybe one day I'll get into doing QT... =/
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