blacklight for moonlighting

[d1hotblaze]

are there any harmful effects of having a black light for the moonlighting...this will be on my 10 gal fish only tank

 

[d1hotblaze]

bump...anyone

 

[burtbollinger]

id think for fish only would be fine, but lets not pretend its the same thing as moonlighting, thats my 2 cents...id just look for an actintic bulb to put in ur current blacklight fixture, or just spring for some real actintic...it will look cool during the day as well.

 

[hgbarwick]

I don't know exactly. If I were you I would just buy regular moonlight. Blacklight maybe harmful but I don't know. What brand is it?

 

[d1hotblaze]

you guys are missing the point i just don't want it to create some killer algae that i can't get rid of

 

[GeoffSFAs10]

black lights are harmfull to the retinas of fish. it will burn them out. so if you want some blind fish then go for it. however, i would advise against that. haha

 

[d1hotblaze]

thank you

 

[GeoffSFAs10]

no problem. i would look into seeing if you can find some sort of LED light strand since xmas crap has already hit the shelves. wouldnt you be able to get a strand of blue led xmas lights and cut the strand down so you dont have 60 of them. haha

 

[d1hotblaze]

the only reason i even considered using a black light is it makes m y live rock glow and it is pretty diim very similar to moonlight but the last thing i want is fish carrying canes around