"Daniel Morrow" wrote in message
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I had the light closer to the plant this way because normally the
light has to be at least a foot above the water surface so the popping
bubbles don't get onto the bulb too much because if it does the
fluorescent
screw in bulb will die. But I stopped keeping the light coming in from the
side after a certain point because some hair algae started growing on the
glass that had the light real close to it. Good luck and later!
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I use the screw-in fluorescent bulbs in my tanks (except the 55s) and the
only one that died was the one I dropped in the water. Well, I dropped the
hood it was screwed into in the water. Bummer,... the bulb was only a few
weeks old.
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