Incadescent Hoods

[William]

I recently got another 10gal tank for my 9molly fry..and I didnt' realize till I had the tank filled up and was sitting the hood on that it took incadescent bulbs as opposed to florescent.

I have live plants in the tank, a fiew pieces of Java Fern.. and I was wondering if it would be okay with the Incadescent?

or is there some kind of UV bulb I can place in an incadescent screwin socket?

I really don't want to spend 20bucks on a new hood just for florescence of I don't have fto..

 

[Allivymar]

Hrmmm. Understand my lighting knowledge is a bit limited BUT:

I think the incandescent will not give enough light for any plants and its gonna heat the tank up too most likely...watch the temps.

As for a screw in flourescent, I dunno. Haven't heard of one but that doesn't mean the don't exist.

 

[William]

Not just florescent, but a UV Florescent.

You know, plant bulb?


The rest of the tank is very nice, tho...Cleanest glass I've ever seen.. looks like theres nothing there when I look through it, just looks like the fish are floating midair 8O

 

[Voodoo Chilli]

The java fern will probably do fine with the incandescent lighting but I'm not sure about the other live plants you've got.

 

[Electrobes]

use the florecent with incandecent bulb sockets. I did the same as you and used those bulbs that i bought at walmrt.. its a tight squeeze but my plants were beautiful... also replace those holes in the top where the lights are with either a metal cut out or just cut out the ventilaion all together.. just that these flo lights are bright...

 

[snapcrackler]

Yah, those are those little coily flourescents Look around and you may find some on sale.. I got a batch of them for my office which has can lighting, for about $3 each.

Good call electrobes

 

[dralarms]

I had one of those hoods that used the 2 incandesent lights, bought 2 of those flourescents and they would last a day or two before they would blow, says right on the package "no direct contact with water" or something to that effect. After replacing the lights twice in 4 days, I got me the flourescent hood that wal mart sells, (actually just bought the deluxe kit, it's cheaper). Got the hood ($29), heater ($20), filter ($25), and tank ($9). That's a total of aprox. $83. The kit was only $50. Figured I'd use some of the stuff.

 

[William]

a 10gal filter is only like..12 bucks at PetSmart..

a 10gal heater is only like...13 bucks at PetSmart..

use the florecent with incandecent bulb sockets. I did the same as you and used those bulbs that i bought at walmrt.. its a tight squeeze but my plants were beautiful... also replace those holes in the top where the lights are with either a metal cut out or just cut out the ventilaion all together.. just that these flo lights are bright...

I don't understand what you mean..?

 

[dralarms]

Still cheaper to get the whole kit, then you can have a hospital tank.

 

[Madame_X]

William, I think this is sort of what you're looking for:

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?siteid=6&pCatId=9870

Its a 6500K compact fluorescent bulb that screws into an incandescent socket. I don't know if you have room for one bulb or two, but as long as you stay with only low-light plants, this would be okay.

 

[William]

William, I think this is sort of what you're looking for:

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?siteid=6&pCatId=9870

Its a 6500K compact fluorescent bulb that screws into an incandescent socket. I don't know if you have room for one bulb or two, but as long as you stay with only low-light plants, this would be okay.

Mega Kudos to Madame!!!!

 

[tkos]

I use those screw in flourescent bublbs in my tank that I bought at WalMart. 10 gallon tank and the plants grow like crazy for me with minor fert dosing, gravel for substrate and 10 hours of light a day. These bulbs are only 3500K I think but do fine for everything except plants that like really high light. I have had them in for 8 months or so now without any problem.

 

[Electrobes]

yeah i did the same thing.. the bulbs did warp my plastic vents on the hood, but didn;t actually destroy them. What i would do is cut those out and replaced them with metal cut out with holes.

 

[Electrobes]

Oh yeah and the lights I bought at walmart supported high light plants just fine, but remember to control the algae in there!

 

[Gunnie]

I got a replacement hood for my 10 gal. that has screw ins for incandescent bulbs. Then I found some compact flourescent bulbs at WalMart for about $4.00 apiece in the fish section. They work great, & my plants really perked up.

 

[Mr502go]

I bought two Mini-compact PC aquarium bulbs for like $20 at the lfs for my incandescent hood, heach claims to put out 6,500K of energy. My cabomba is overgroing the joint.