Glass Cover

Re: Glass Cover

With clean cover glas, you'll loose 8% of your light output and 20% if it's dirty. At least that's what I've read somewhere in a Dutch forum. Offcourse if you have lot's of light and you clean it well/periodically I don't see any problems.

I don't know what kind of light you use, if it's T8/T5 there is those IP67 lamp holder. It's suppose to be water resistant even under (!) the water for a few moment. But ofcourse the best thing is to install your light so it won't fall off. If you don't like the cover you can either do this or teach your cat a lesson or two .

 

Re: Glass Cover

greenstuff, i have allways used glass between light and tank ,if for no other reason but to keep reflector clean. as far as keeping it clean i think that should be figured in watts per gal, meaning a few more watts to make up for dirty glass. you can make that glass sparkle and the next day it looks terrible from the fish spashing during the night. i would rather be safe with glass between then sorry if light falls into tank for some unknown reason. glass on a 75 or 90 gal tank is large, broke one, then went to expensive plastic. works fine. glass over a tank also helps to keep fish from jumping out and some think that it helps to keep co2 in tank. hanging strong lighting above a tank without glass would be the most desirable senerio,but you need a lot of room for that. regards, cornhusker.