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Nano lighting!
Sound familiar? :wink:
Anyway, I bought a 10gal. AGA tank on a whim, and because there was this purty tower of them stacked neatly in my LFS... Ive been contemplating throwing together a nano for the s#*ts and giggles of it, and this seemed to be so archetypally fool-proof, I just had to start up the whole get-yer-nose-in-to-the-catalogs-and-etailers shopping routine!
But heres the point, after much adue: what the heck is the deal with lighting fixtures?! Theyre freaking expensive, even for the little 20" setups!
I am speaking, of course, of PC lighting. The cheapest fixture Ive found is about $65 for just one 40-Watt bulb and all the related regalia. Granted, thats not a bad deal, but I feel thats not enough light for my impending needs. So the same fixture, except with another 40-Watt bulb, is something like $125!!! I KNOW that makes mathematical sense people, dont take me the wrong way, but it doesnt make nikels'n'dimes-off-the-shelf-sell-it-or-bust sense; in other words, it doesnt make much economic sense, to me at least. For something that small, and at whatever the costs of materials, I still dont know how businesses manage to move these things...
There, that was my rant...
Anywho, anyone know of a good place to go for cheap lighting? Alternatively, anyone want to sell an old fixture or retrofit setup to a bum like me?
Oh, and Id like to send a shout-out to the nano-cube man, Hwarang! :wink:
Sound familiar? :wink:
Anyway, I bought a 10gal. AGA tank on a whim, and because there was this purty tower of them stacked neatly in my LFS... Ive been contemplating throwing together a nano for the s#*ts and giggles of it, and this seemed to be so archetypally fool-proof, I just had to start up the whole get-yer-nose-in-to-the-catalogs-and-etailers shopping routine!
But heres the point, after much adue: what the heck is the deal with lighting fixtures?! Theyre freaking expensive, even for the little 20" setups!
I am speaking, of course, of PC lighting. The cheapest fixture Ive found is about $65 for just one 40-Watt bulb and all the related regalia. Granted, thats not a bad deal, but I feel thats not enough light for my impending needs. So the same fixture, except with another 40-Watt bulb, is something like $125!!! I KNOW that makes mathematical sense people, dont take me the wrong way, but it doesnt make nikels'n'dimes-off-the-shelf-sell-it-or-bust sense; in other words, it doesnt make much economic sense, to me at least. For something that small, and at whatever the costs of materials, I still dont know how businesses manage to move these things...
There, that was my rant...
Anywho, anyone know of a good place to go for cheap lighting? Alternatively, anyone want to sell an old fixture or retrofit setup to a bum like me?
Oh, and Id like to send a shout-out to the nano-cube man, Hwarang! :wink:
