How To Light Up Your Aquarium With Better Fish Tank Lights
With quality fish tank lights, you can prolong the life of your tank, and get more enjoyment from watching your pets. Not only fish, but plants, do best on 12 hours of light per day. This will relax them and remind them of their habitat in the wild. If you’re worried about erratic lighting patterns, which may disturb your fish, buy a timer for your lighting system.
Light your tank with fluorescent fish tank lights for the best possible results, but be prepared to pay a little more than you would for cheap incandescent lights. If your tank gets too warm, you will lose fish - this can be a result of using incandescent lighting (including halogen lamps).
Lighting requirements for tanks with plants are different from those of a typical fish tank; plants need a full-spectrum fluorescent bulb or tri-phosphor fluorescent tubes that emit light in the red-blue-green range in the spectrum.
Last modified April 21, 2008Author 1530 > has blogged 168 times
