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Meg0000

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Hi, I just broke one of the two light bulb that was for my aquarium because I was trying to remove it from the top of the aquarium since it stopped working today and it exploded in my hands and there was glass everywhere. Is it dangerous for the fish if there is some glass in the tank that I can't see? Also with what should I replace it? I think I have two options:
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something like this
or
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What should I do?
 
Are you growing live plants? If not any bulb bright enough to view your fish will do. If you dont have plants then all your light is dping is growing algae and lighting up your fish for viewing pleasure. If growing plants then depends on which plants and size of tank. As for broken glass yeah you want to get it out as much as you can.
 
What sort of globe broke, was it fluorescent, compact fluoro, incandescent or LED?

Fluorescent and compact fluoros have phosphorus and other mineral powders in them that are bad for any animal that ingests or inhales them. If it was one of these, remove the broken glass and do a 75% water change and gravel clean the substrate every day for a week.
Make sure any new water is free of chlorine/ chloramine before it's added to the tank.

If it was an incandescent or LED, just remove the broken bits and do a water change and gravel clean now and it should be fine.
 
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Munroco said:
Corydoras and other species that burrow might be affected, I'm not sure TBH
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I don't have any species that burrow but my fish like to go near the bottom to find food I think or Idk what he is doing so I hope I removed everything.
 
Colin_T said:
What sort of globe broke, was it fluorescent, compact fluoro, incandescent or LED?

Fluorescent and compact fluoros have phosphorus and other mineral powders in them that are bad for any animal that ingests or inhales them. If it was once of these, remove the broken glass and do a 75% water change and gravel clean the substrate every day for a week.
Make sure any new water is free of chlorine/ chloramine before it's added to the tank.

If it was an incandescent or LED, just remove the broken bits and do a water change and gravel clean now and it should be fine.
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I really don't know what it was, it is an old used tank but it is not LED light so I hope it incandescent. Just to be sure everything is ok I will do what you said for the fluorescent and the compact fluoro.
 
Meg0000 said:
I really don't know what it was, it is an old used tank but it is not LED light so I hope it incandescent. Just to be sure everything is ok I will do what you said for the fluorescent and the compact fluoro.
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Good luck ;)
 
Did the globe take a couple of minutes to get to full brightness?
If it did, then it's a metal halide/ halogen globe.
 
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