moonlights

[morgan]

how many moon lights do guys recommend of a 55g fowlr- 48"x18"x13". thanks.

 

[reefobsessed]

I have only one on my tank and its a 45 gallon. I got it at North Coast Marine for 58.00. That includes shipping... I got it about 6 months ago & LOVE IT...

 

[scuba_steve]

id think 4-6 bulbs would work

 

[MadManMac]

I actually use a 13 watt Actinic on my 60 Gallon reef and it looks great.

 

[Guest]

I heard also that the true actinic 13 watt PC's are cool looking on large tanks..


I was advised some time ago that 4 LEDS would be good for a 4ft tank

 

[BONESTOCK]

So four bulbs at $58.00 each?? Man that's an awful lot of money....

Where can I see this product? Online site?

 

[stresco]

I did my moonlights with 16 LEDs and built it myself...the tank looks great. It cost me about 20 bucks for everything.

 

[captivereefs]

Actually you can run one CSL moonlite for every (2) feet of tank length. CSl just went out of business so when they are gone they are gone. I have them on sale right now for $22.99 each. This is the lwast exspensive moonlite on the market right now and works awesome!

 

[morgan]

hey darin will i be able to connect two csl moonlites to one power cord or will i have to use 2 seperate ones? thanks

 

[TheMadNucleus]

There are a few posts on this topic - particularly in the DIY forum. Just as an FYI it is really easy to build these things, a few LEDS a few resistors and a cheap power pack.

See 5 LED Moonlight posted by Yaksplat.

In that trail I posted a hand-drawn sketch of how to do this as well as the sites to get all the parts. Roughly:

5 LEDS at .45 each
1 Powerpack at about $4 (Allcorp.com)
and a few 70 ohm resistors for about .15

total cost less than $8 and far greater bluelight output then CSL.

Add a 555 circut and you can make them dimmable. With the suggested powerback you can load dozens of these LED's. I.e. Assuming you have a long tank you can run 20 of them, one every few inches in your hood.

Just a thought, for you folks willing to DIY

Tom

 

[two11devan]

Making your own leds will save you alot of money and its not very hard to do either...i have 3 of them on my 30 gal and it only cost about 20 bucks or so. Here is a site with some directions... http://www.kaotica.com/frag/diy/moonlight/

 

[BONESTOCK]

nice...I think I'll try doin it myself!!

 

[Brisc0]

my 105 gallon is 48" long and I have four LEDS on it, looks really great. I recommend the CSL, but you will have 4 seperate plugs about the same size as a typical phone AC adapter.

 

[BONESTOCK]

ohh...that sucks....I'll try makin my own using just one plug...

 

[stresco]

this is what my tank looks like with my home made moonlights

 

[got bait?]

All this time and energy spent on moon lights. Are they really neccessary or just for looks? I will be starting a 100 gal reef soon and just curious if I should have these as well.

 

[captivereefs]

each one has its own cord.

 

[TheMadNucleus]

Gotbait,

I started a seperate topic on that exact question - are they necessary? But no one responded. I think they are helpful for some reasons I posted in that topic.

In this forum under

"Ok, I'm pretty convinced now, Moonlights=good, any thoughts?"

It contains my thoughts on this anyway.

Tom