HQI lamps and bulbs (aquarium accessories)

Let's try to understand how to illuminate our bathtubs without spend a small fortune and with attentions to the requirements of the plants?
HQI lamps (metallic haloids) are one of the possible solutions. As an example also lamps HQL (mercury vapors) are optimal lamps, available from 80 and 125 watt. The “bell” of light of this type of lamp is not wide, but, how much faretto a HQI (than however it can have of the guiding fins) and it does not have the same force of penetration of the water column.
What are we searching for an aquarium lamp? Elevated power, right temperature of color (therefore availability of light bulbs of several gradazioni, to even buy in the illuminotecnica storees, saving) and economy!
In fact we try to obtain the better relationship power/consumption, that is the greater possible amount of light for liter of water of our Aquarius, spending less possible for the lamp and also for the daily consumption of current. Only the HQI offer all this: unfortunately but that normally in sale in the storees of acquariofilia they are most expensive, for which the greater part of we it will withdraw on lamps HQL, that they are sure less powerful to parity than wattaggio and difficultly they are rintraccibili cold light light bulbs, if not those too much expensive from acquariofilia.
The better choice is to o in illuminotecnica supplying and to try a beautiful one faretto to metallic haloids (Lanzini or Disano, but also CEAB in order to make 3 examples of marks known). We will find some various and we must make in way of being able to us to carry to house a faretto, from 70 or 150W- with an integrated filter UV or to mount in front of the light bulb (usually is advised to mount glass to the borosilicato one - the fins paraluce, for direzionare the luminous bundle at best, otherwise we illuminate all the room like one stage!)
The relationship watt/liters would have to be maintained over 0,7 for having a rigogliosa increase and the HQI would have to produce approximately the double quantity of the left light to of wattaggio regarding of normal NEONS. (es.: Bathtub 100 liters with 100 watt= 1:1). Therefore we say that, tendentially, for Aquarius until 100 cm of length, we could use 1 faretto from 150 W or 2 from 70 Watt. Even if the cost difference can be remarkable (same I has preferred the first hypothesis - you see my sweet bathtub in drawing-room) a solution with more luminous sources is that optimal one for the increase of the plants, that they have little shadows. A solo faretto from 70W can go well for Aquarius until 100 liters and is perfect for Aquarius of 60x30 cm. (classic measure of many Aquarius trades them).
It must also lend attention to the light bulb sold with the faretto or to acquire separately: the gradazione of color, expressed in degrees Kelvin, draft is aesthetic choices that work them. Personally I love the light white woman and cold (the solar light is medium around to the 6500° kelvin) and therefore I have taken a light bulb from 5.200°, but they are also available light bulbs HQI from 3000°K (acronym W) that they produce light with the same intensity but of warmer tone. Optimal light bulb to mount in these faretti is OSRAM POWERSTAR HQI - TS 150W /D UVS, from 5.200° Kelvin. In fact INDUSTRIAL light bulbs with temperature of advanced color do not exist, that is more cold. For having colder light bulbs anchor must address to the storees of acquariofilia, with decidedly advanced costs: we will find lamps until 20.000° Kelvin, therefore indicated also for Aquarius navy with invertebrates. If they must have the same attack (mine it is RX-7) then we could mount which more us aggrada. (you know also that you will pay it more than all the faretto!!!). E' possible also to construct one plafoniera, acquiring faretti from joint and posizionando or more lamps inside than one scato it, holding distant the groups of ignition in the piece of furniture under the bathtub (these heat remarkablly).
In order it makes you an example I I have acquired a HQI of the LANZINI, the faretto came 168€ of list but with the classic reduction in price me it has only cost € 110, more € 20 for the fins baffle plates.
Lighting system MARINE Aquarius: for this kind of Aquarius the necessary power is ABSOLUTELY advanced, that small invertebrates always want themselves to be maintained polipi. In order to hold in bathtub single fish or corals less demanding we can limit to us to remain on 1 watt liters, also less with the single fish, even if in nature they live under a truly crazy solar light (who has been also single in the Red Mar can understand…). The temperature of color is always one subjective choice, but in the event of the marine one it is common to use lights many cold, from 10.000 until 20.000° Kelvin, therefore practically blue.

In order to more know some on the lighting system in Aquarius:
Interpretation of the technical characteristics of the lamps for I use in acquariofilia
(Giovanni Roda Room)


And you… that lamps mounts on your Aquarius?