Lights... what do you do?

[Andrew McFadden]

Wow, ours are on for generally 8-9 hours a day. I work from home so can turn them on and off manually, otherwise, they would be on timers. 12 hours a day is a long time!

As far as I know, Home Depot does not sell T5 HO's. They sell T5 NO shop lights- HN1 and I have like 20 sets wired together over some of our racks of tanks. These are great for the money, but do not provide output that is equivalent to the T5 HO fixtures.

They have a few like via volt 4ft 4 bulb T5 HO 20000 lumens 216 watts