lighting and cooling vivarium

[sarahjane85]

Anyone have ideas for or currently use 'cool' lighting? I need some low lighting for plants w/o the heat and would rather not use fans as a source of keeping the viv cool.
All links, ideas, or recommendations are appreciated.

Sarah

 

[tghsmith]

to get light without heat you need to look into led's, most other sources will produce heat in differant amounts depending on the light levels you need. or have a barrier between the light viv with a small fan keeping the the area cool an not effecting the viv conditions,

 

[Haroldo]

You could watercool the light, but that would be a bit overdone, expensive and difficult to setup. Not to mention up to a 20% light loss.

 

[Bowfinger]

Use an incased light with plexiglass as the window, then have a fan to suck out the heat.
You can make one or buy expensively made for reef tanks.

 

[Afelinus]

ESU makes a series of Freshwater aquarium light called Coralife,that are great for the very application you want.They do not put off any significant heat and are beneficial to the plants in a naturalistic terrarium.I use them on my Felinus tanks.The model# I use is 58103.