lighting fuge with 20w g4 halide

[englishreefer]

i am currently looking into lighting for a new fuge. I know that metal halides benefit our main tanks watt for watt due to their broarder light spectrum.

my question is do you think that using a couple of cheap halide desk lamps, 20w g4 connections would be better than using flourecent lighting. As the only reason we can't use these over our main tanks is due to low k rating. seen as low k is the ideal for algaes, wouldn't these be ideal.

Does anybody know what k these bulbs do have.

 

[yardboy]

Do you mean halogen, not halide? I'm not familiar with "cheap halide" as they always require a ballast, which jacks up the price, or am I mistaken?
I have heard of people using halogen for algae growth, don't know how effective it is, also heat buildup.

 

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

don't need it

 

[englishreefer]

yeah sorry halogen, what do you mean don't need it eagles, just thought it would be a small compact light to use on a nano fuge. could use 80w or more easily on a 5.5g. cheap and cheerful for my already empy wallet, was just curious as to the lights affectivness

 

[Samala]

I would worry about the amount of heat coming off the bulb more than anything else. Even the fuge would probably enjoy lighting more towards natural daylight but I think they could tough out the super low kelvin rating of most halogens (which are meant to look like normal lightbulbs in the yellowy range of light color). So position the light at least a few inches away from the fuge and try it out, see how much heat that baby actually puts out.

>Sarah