In article ,
Charles wrote:
On 9 Feb 2006 18:00:39 -0800, "PiperJason"
wrote:

Richard, thanks for the tips. My next question is how would I go about
putting more light in this smallish tank? I do have some heat lamp
fixures for my geckos that I no longer use (I switched to heat pads
since they are ground dwellers). I suppose I could go get a 20 or
30watt day incandecent heat bulb. Would that work? of course I'd rather
go flourescent, but its such a small tank...

I use 13 Watt compact fluorescent bulbs on my 2.5 G tanks. The 13W
bright Kits from AH Supply are good.

http://www.ahsupply.com/twox.htm

Right now I am still using the old incandescent hoods that I changed
to fluorescent, I'm in the process of making new ones from rain gutter
material.

Yeah that works. What I do is find ols incandescent canopies in
yard sales of thrift shops (a dollor or two) and line them
with waterproof/hatproof mylar from hydroponics.com then
put in screwin fluorescents.

You can rape one hood and add those lights to the first one
and get 4 lights in most hoods.

They can't come close to a tube or compact fluprescent in
terms of lighting goodness, but for shallow(ish) tanks they
work fine.

Here's a pic:

http://images.aquaria.net/hw/lights/screwins/

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