Lighting help (bulb color?)

[ladypheesh]

we ended up taking the legs off and putting the fixture right on top. It helped a lot by directing the light down in to the tank instead of out in to the room so much. Hopefully it doesn't heat up too much. We don't have them on right now because we have live rock only, and don't want to encourage the algae growth.

The only thing is, it is pretty inconvenient now, we will have to completely remove the light for feeding, etc. Does anyone have any clever setups with a similar fixture? We also have eggcrate on top of the tank because we have a cat.

[fishbait]

the only creative thing that I can think of is to install an adjustable hanging kit. when you need in the tank just raise up the lights.

[reeffreak]

I notch out a small 2''x3'' hole out of the eggcrate.Big enough to feed the fish without having to lift the crate up.Another small eggcrate slightly bigger than the hole itself is tied to eggcrate covering the hole.Its now a twist or flip latch.

[ladypheesh]

I think that sounds like a good solution, freak.

I'm not a big fan of having holes in our vaulted ceiling so hanging won't cut it for us. That would be sweet though, to just crank it up when we needed to!