inexpensive lighting for QT tank?

[fishface]

was wondering if anyone has any ideas for inexpensive lighting for QT tank? i'm gonna build a canopy for my 10g but i need suffincient light, hopefully not at the cost of an arm or leg. recommendations or ideas appreciated

thanks,

[skylord]

These are quick and easy....under $50 including bulbs. I use one one on my QT and another on my fuge.

http://www.jlaquatics.com/phpstore/s...t_ID=PC-AL2028

Scott

[fishface]

good idea Scott, i may just scrap the DIY canopy and go that direction unless anyone else has any "less expensive" alternatives.

cheers

[kwirky]

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.

[fishface]

it'll be a quaranine for anything, fish, corals, inverts...from what i've read everything should have a QT period of at least 1 month.

[fkshiu]

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.