diy moon lighting

Hello fello and sister reefers last year I was looking on this site And this dude had a good idea about making moon light from led blue Christmas tree lights. About two weeks after christmas lowes and home depot had done took all there light off the shelves.So any ways tonight I was at Walmart and thought about checking out there Christmas lights and low and behold they had a box of 60 led lights with no grappy covers on them wired up for 6.98 I grabbed a box took them home and drapped them over my canopy and it looks like the real deal for only 6.98 you can't beet that. Im going to make some kind of rod to put them on so they'll face striaght down on the water.... I just thought some of you all might be interested on this simple find and cheep tomake...

Is that the same as the moon lights that you can buy? Do moon lights actually do anything besides look cool?

Moon lights are just for us reefers. They do not serve any purpose other than mood lighting. But they are cool!

Most moon lights are made of blue led lights...... These christmas lights that walmart has are 60bulb blue leds for $6.98....assemble these to a piece of pvc pipe or secure them to your canopy or just be creative.

I'm going in like 5 minutes to get them... they better be there... or i might have to go all mantis shrimp on them.

mantis power LOL

I bought a string of 100 blue LED's from Walmart. They cost only $2. The box says they use 40W. I laid them on top of the tank. The light they make does look good. I hadn't seen what moonlight looked like. So yes they do work, look good and are almost free. But I took them down.

The problem is that there is too much wiring. The string can stretch out to 20 ft and is like quadruple wired so a bulb can go out without taking the rest down with it. The trouble is hiding all of that bulky green wiring. (I don't use a canopy).

Also I noticed that as far as mounting goes, the individual (xmas) LED bulbs do not project light from the tip of the bulb. So pointing them at the water doesn't help. The side of the bulb has to face the water.

Doesn't sound very viable then. Moonlighting is pretty cheap.

Odyssea Bluemoon LED

I looked all over the walmart and only found the 60 bulb blue led light for 6.98 the other ones that I had seen was for 2.00 were the old type of Christmas lights which were not leds they have them know I dont know. If you knew how to rewire them up in to a pvc pipe or something that you could hold them over the water you wouldnt need that many light for a good price.

As for most after market moon lighting Ive seen that are already assembled in to light fixtures there are only 3 or 4 pointing down to water and they seem to shine quite well and most actual moon lights that ive seen for sale like on e-bay the cheepest that I had found at one time was a 12'' strip and that price was for $25.00 the ones i had bought looked good, I'll send pic as soon as I get time to finish what I need to do with them.

Yep, so i done bought em'. I removed several of them and eliminated some wire, drilled an old fluorescent fixture from the garage, where the side is on an angle to reflect light, tested it for giggles, a hose filled tank with cracked glass, and it looks great. I think the angle helped with the side lighting issue. I think it was the best 7 dollar investment i ever made.

now to hide the wires...

dcan, nice link, cheap fixtures, awesome!