lighting for my brood stock system

[CrippledStoner]

Do u think i can use regular florescent shop lights for my brood stock clown fish. I don't mind spending money on lights to help with the color and overall health of the fish. My next option would be 1 or 2 tube t5.
I have 2 shelf's with five 10 gal tanks for a total of ten 10 gal tanks.I would need at least 48 in of light to cover each shelf. i don't want to over power the light and grow a bunch of algae. Or could get led to help with power bill. what do u all think?:idea:

 

[1kwksvt]

Do u think i can use regular florescent shop lights for my brood stock clown fish. I don't mind spending money on lights to help with the color and overall health of the fish. My next option would be 1 or 2 tube t5.
I have 2 shelf's with five 10 gal tanks for a total of ten 10 gal tanks.I would need at least 48 in of light to cover each shelf. i don't want to over power the light and grow a bunch of algae. Or could get led to help with power bill. what do u all think?:idea:

Yes I think regular shop florescent light will be fine. I have yet to here of any benefits to running high powered lights for fish health. You really only need lights on fish only tanks for your viewing pleasure

 

[swk]

Lights are for coral and people. Fish don't care

 

[woodnaquanut]

Lights are for coral and people. Fish don't care

They would probably prefer to not have any light. Of course that would make it hard to see them!

 

[Saltwaternooby]

I used 2.5 3w leds for my set up, saves a lot of watts when lighting 5 tanks

 

[Dapg8gt]

Any light you want to use will be totally fine. Cheapest power wise and sorta cool =) route would be the led strip lights that have adhesive on the back. You can buy like 20' and a power supply on eBay for like $40 or so. You can even get a 50/50 white and blue if you want to show off the colors. Also a company 21ledusa that has cheap ones. I'm ordering it for my sump area the rgb one just for poops and giggle's