Use A Floodlight To Enhance Lighting?

[hadjici2]

I was wondering if a could use a 500w flooflight to light the front of the tank. That is to be placed a certain distance on front of the front glass of the plant and light the tank. It seems that the 19w ofer my 20L tank are not enough and I thought that by having a spotlight to accomodate the tanks lighting for a few hours a day, I could grow glossostigma properly.


This is the floodlight

http/www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/part...%2Blighting.htm

Your thoughts?

 

[pseud]

I think you'll either suffocate the rest of the plants from immense algae growth, or boil your tank.

But I'm far from an expert, just taking a wild guess.

 

[zig]

It will certainly be bright

Agree with pseud your tank water will be bubbling to boiling point in no time the heat will probably kill your plants and fish in the process.

 

[soggysandwich]

what they said, and you will get a tonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn of algae!

 

[oldwhitewood]

It's a hugely powerful light in terms of wattage and the heat it would throw out would be a nightmare, I recently tried making my own ballast out of two 150w MH outside lights by taking them apart and screwing them onto a strip of wood. Even though testing the effect on a tank it did look really good practically I thought this is just madness, plus the bulbs are different sizes. There are some good sites around the net for building your own lights as MH lights I think are terribly overpriced, but it appears the trade has us, its customers over a barrel on that one.