Moonlights

[thekarens]

Tonight my wife put together some moonlights for our discus tank. Looks good. Pics with the tank to come.

[andrewh]

details?

What are they made of?

[thekarens]

Unfortunately I'm a non technical kind of person, but I believe she said LEDs, scotch connectors? and resisters and of course the plug. She also said something abou the scotch (sp) connectors not working very well so she might end up sodering it together. After that she plans on putting it in some kind of pvc tube or something with holes drilled so the lights stay pointed down.

[RMD55]

I made some moonlights from Scotch connectors and LEDs you have to have the right resitors for the power supply you are using. Sold one at the GHAC auction. The Sotch connectors are not the best.

[Ceejay]

Where can i buy those LED's from?

[thekarens]

We actually got them a couple years back from Marsh so I'm not sure.

[Somefishguy]

Would LED xmas lights work....or are they not bright enough?

[thekarens]

We've actually used regular Christmas lights and it worked just fine.

[Ceejay]

Thanks the Karens

[RonR.]

I bought a nice set of moonlights off ebay from digikits.com They are exceptional. I have mine connected to an auto-timer and have them come on in the early morning and from 10pm to midnite every day.

[Somefishguy]

Any chance we can see a picture of the xmas light led moonlights on the tank?

Also anyone know if the LEDs would be bad in respects to promoting algae growth (my planted tank starts producing algae if I leave the lights on more than 9 hours a day, so it limits my fish viewing time... but moonlights would be cool for eveing time after I turn off the lights if they wont promote alage growth).

Thanks

[thekarens]

We're not using Christmas lights any more and don't have a planted tank. Maybe someone else will have some input.

[eklikewhoa]

There are LED xmas lights that work as well.

[RMD55]

Ihave a bunch of blue LED's. If anyone is interseted pm me

[aggrocichlidfan]

how many lights u got? an how much?