Leafer
12/04/2007, 10:32 AM
Its time for me to start planning my future setup. My intention is for a carpenter I know to help me build two book cases with an aquarium stand and canopy in the middle. This will be set up in my living room with the sump below it in the basement. The tank will be a drilled 150 tall (48l x 24w x 31h)
What I want to figure out is what lighting fixtures to use. My thinking is that 2 x 250 MH with supplemental T5s or VHO would work best. I want the canopy to totally enclose the lights so that the only light I see comes through the aquarium. I can vent upwards or even to the outside. I also want this to be as quite as possible so if a fixture includes a fan that could become noisy, this should be ruled out. I’m not experienced yet with MH lights, safety and as much as it can be, efficiency is important.
So, I could build this to accommodate almost any lighting. What fixtures do you recommend I look into? Right now I think I would start with a couple of Ice Cap 250 MH pendants and maybe some retrofit T5s. The Giesemann infiniti with its 4 T5s looks nice, would something like this work inside a canopy?
Please help me with some suggestions.
What I want to figure out is what lighting fixtures to use. My thinking is that 2 x 250 MH with supplemental T5s or VHO would work best. I want the canopy to totally enclose the lights so that the only light I see comes through the aquarium. I can vent upwards or even to the outside. I also want this to be as quite as possible so if a fixture includes a fan that could become noisy, this should be ruled out. I’m not experienced yet with MH lights, safety and as much as it can be, efficiency is important.
So, I could build this to accommodate almost any lighting. What fixtures do you recommend I look into? Right now I think I would start with a couple of Ice Cap 250 MH pendants and maybe some retrofit T5s. The Giesemann infiniti with its 4 T5s looks nice, would something like this work inside a canopy?
Please help me with some suggestions.