Light for Refugium?

Hi Everyone,

I am looking for Ideas for an inxpensive light for my refrugium. I will be putting some Cheto in there this week.

What is an inexpensive light that will work with the Cheto?

thanks,
Alan
 
i made mine out of a few standard sockets and CF flood lights, attached to a piece of plywood. made the reflector out of left over starboard. cost me about 20 bucks including the bulbs. just wire them in series and plu them in to a time (i have mine on reverse from DT)
 
I used a clip on light with a daylight bulb as well, you can find them at Lowes or Home Depot. I think it ended up costing around $12 total.
 
omg people at the lfs wanted me to buy a 50 to 100 $$ light!
thank god i saw this forum! =]

i also like Tylt33 comments. =] helped alot also
 
I got a clip on lamp with a reflector at the hardware store for $5, plus a 13watt Compact Florescent flood light in it for another maybe $3. Grows like a weed. Or wait, isn't it kinda a weed anyways....?
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14919363#post14919363 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by BAYAREA25
omg people at the lfs wanted me to buy a 50 to 100 $$ light!
thank god i saw this forum! =]

i also like Tylt33 comments. =] helped alot also

I just replaced my $100 Current USA 65w fixture with that $11 19w 5100k bulb I linked... less energy use, less heat, good light spectrum :)
 
Hey Tylt33,
I went to home depot 2day and got that light clamp.
There wasn't that exact bulb. But I got the same thing. But it was a 5000k bulb. Same watt output and volts. So basically same kind of bulb just 100k less. Hopfully those 100k won't make a diffence and also I hope my cheato increases.
 
+1 on melevs bulb. Replaced a bunch of CFs with it and cheato grew 3x faster.

Yours should work fine. You have plenty of time to find a melevs bulb before the current one dies =]

Saved what $85 there =]. This site can be a real big help.
 
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