Why Lighting is so important for Aquarium Fish Tanks?

Posted by Enrique white on August 19th, 2016

Lighting in your fish tank is very important for the health of your fish. Fish in an aquarium tanks needs light around 12 hours a day. Proper lighting can keep your fish healthy, happy and feeling right in their tank. Keeping a fish tank in home or office or anywhere can be make us feel free, fun and relaxing hobby. Aquarium lighting plays a vital role; it also provides energy and oxygen to ensure the healthy growth of fish in our aquarium environment. Keeping plants in fish tank requires different lighting requirements. If we not set a proper light to our fish tank, plants grow and die after a few weeks because of not setting a right type of light to fish tank.

Aquarium lighting is an important aspect for keeping your aquarium as special. We have confusing to choose the types of fish tank lighting. It’s mainly depends upon what you planned for keeping in your aquarium. There are different types of Aquarium Light for Sale in markets.

Types of Aquarium Lighting

Fluorescent Light

The most inexpensive and well suited for freshwater fish aquariums. It’s comes in variety of sizes to fit any aquarium. For fish safety and healthy purpose you should go for fluorescent lighting. This lighting looks like natural light and make your fish feel better. It typically ranges from 15 to 40 watts. They are very cheap to buy, easy for setup and replace.

Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb

The regular Fluorescent lights typically range from 10 to 100 watts and Kelvin ratings from 5,000° to 10,000°. They are really bright and often come with the installed fans in the hood.

High Output (HO) or T5-HO Fluorescent Light

The HO Fluorescent lights are typically range from 20-60 watts which has Kelvin ratings from 6,000° to 11,000°. These are more expensive than Fluorescents lights which require a T5 light fixture. It is an advanced type of fluorescent light and almost twice brightness then the standard bulbs. It generates a significant amount of heat, so we always want to be regularly monitor the temperature inside of  your aquarium and turn off properly  when it is necessary.

LED Aquarium Light

The LED aquarium lights which are very expensive and it has more advantages compared to other aquarium lights. LED aquarium lights are much cooler than the standard Fluorescent lights and metal halides lights. These lights are more durable which consume less energy and it life span also longer than any other lights.

Aquarium Light Timer

Along with aquarium lights you may also want an aquarium light timer. This aquarium light timer allows you to setup the timer to turn on the different variety of lights at different times. Installing a timer can make lighting easier. We can just set it and forget it and don’t want to worry about that.

So maintain your aquarium fish tank for good electrical safety and can keep your fish healthy.

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