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Do you have any suggestions for a lamp and bulb and wattage that will fit a ten gallon??? sorry about all the q's lately.
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I've found my 25W bulb lights up a 10 gallon nicely. Give me a few extra degrees of air temp during the day too.

>>Do you have any suggestions for a lamp and bulb and wattage that will fit a ten gallon??? sorry about all the q's lately.
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Blaine

0.0.1 High Yellow Juvenile Leo (Echo)

I use the clamp lamp style lamps like from the hardware store. They come with the metal reflector shade and you can put them on top or clamp them to the side. They're cheaper and work just as good for leos as the ones from the pet store . Any household bulb would be find, but I would stay at a 60 watt or less for a 10 gallon. I have a ten gallon and find that a 60 watt keeps the air temp in the right range (80-90F).

I was just thinking about other lighting options, and it got me thinking about 'Tri-lights'. They're the ones with three wattages (50, 100, 150), or some setup like that. I think you can get (20-40-60) as well.

Since the overhead light is essentially for ambient temperature, I wonder if a tri-light would be a good idea. Then, if it was a cool day, you could click it a few times and get it on the highest setting. On warmer days (in the summer), you could have it on the lowest setting.

Just something that came to mind. Those bulbs aren't that expensive either.

Either way, make sure you get a fixture that can handle lots of power. It's not cool getting a 25W fixture and finding out you want 100W bulbs...

>>I use the clamp lamp style lamps like from the hardware store. They come with the metal reflector shade and you can put them on top or clamp them to the side. They're cheaper and work just as good for leos as the ones from the pet store . Any household bulb would be find, but I would stay at a 60 watt or less for a 10 gallon. I have a ten gallon and find that a 60 watt keeps the air temp in the right range (80-90F).
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Blaine

0.0.1 High Yellow Juvenile Leo (Echo)

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Hardware store, home depot, walmart, etc.

Just look in the light bulb section.

The only problem I've had with them in my house is that sometimes lamps are built for them and if you use certain tri-light bulbs in regular lamps (like a desk lamp), you can't use all three settings.

BUT, the one's I used to have in a ceiling light worked like this:

When you turn the wall switch on, it comes on at high level. If you quickly turn the switch off, then on, it come back on at medium level, and if you quickly turn it off and on, it comes back at low level.

Something to play around with.

They can't be too expensive. A couple of bucks would probably be reasonable. Definitely cheaper than buying 'reptile' bulbs at the petstore, but a little more expensive than regular bulbs.

Just to clarify though, I'm only talking about bulbs, and not fixtures. I don't know of any tri-light bulb-specific fixtures for aquariums. I've only ever seen big lamps or desk lamps built specifically for tri-lights.
But the old ceiling fan I had could use the tri-light bulbs if you flicked the switch.

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Blaine

0.0.1 High Yellow Juvenile Leo (Echo)