This is a little off topic, but I figure I would post pictures of a little project I did tonight. I have a couple fish tanks and my most recent build needed better light. I have some live plants in the tank that needed more light than the cheap hood light that came with the tank could provide.
I looked into buying a new light for the tank but the $80 price tag did not make me smile – so I decided to see what I could do with the old one.
Here is what I started with.
It is a 15 Watt bulb and ideally for my plants I want at least 2 watts per gallon of water, so in this case I needed at least 60 Watts.
I wanted to take out the existing fixture and mount 2 sockets in the existing hood and use some CFL bulbs.
I had the sockets and bulbs out in the garage so this cost me nothing to do and I should have all the light I need in the tank for my plants.
Here it is all done
And here is my tank
