diy lighting

Tristan wrote:

Checkout hellolights.com or AHsupply.com for decent stuff used in
aquarium lighting. Very reasonable especially if you canfind ballaasts
etc on clearance. They had electronic ballasts that will power up to
65 watt PC bulbs for 22 bucks each. They worked with 24, 32, 55 and 65
watt PC bulbs. The ballasts even came with PC square pin sockets,
power cords and switch. Hard to beat for the price.

On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 09:42:54 -0500, "
wrote:

I got a 75 gallon freshwater thats got a mixture of flourite and gravel
with all live plants.

currently i know i am way under lit...my dad is making me a nice wooden
hood to replace the perfecto light strip.

i want to wire up a better light setup for my live plants and possibly
an LED moonlight setup..

what is the best way setup that i can possibly peice together maybe with
parts from a local home center or LFS???

i am very handy and can wire about anything, however I am not too
familier with the various types of aquaria lighting....nor do i know
what I will need for my 75 gallon tank.

any ideas would be a huge help thanks!!!



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I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!


thats all well and good and i appriecate the response. I will deffinitly
keep those places in mind. however, its hard to buy something when you
dont know exactally what your buying. lol