Do you have a lot of light over-spill from your aquarium light?

I swore for years that I had a cataract in my left eye from my halide pendant near my TV.

Do you have a lot of light over-spill from your aquarium light?

Have you done anything to reduce it?

 

my basement hasn't had a "real" light turned on in it since I moved my tanks down there. With 4 light fixtures (smallest a 130 watt pc) running I am seriously considering putting a skylight in the floor right over my tanks so some of that light bleeds into the living room. That way I can do away with the lights up there too! I figure with the right placement of mirrors I can make it look like daylight!

Guess this is my way of say heck yeah I have spillover and I haven't done a thing about it yet.... Still trying to figure it out how to do it without heating things up....

 

Have have some... I would say that the wall next to the tank has about a good foot of light up against it on both sides of the tank.

 

got the fixture hung right it is minimal but i don't have to turn the lights on in my basement works good and saves energy i guess its only a 450watt mh

 

Nope, everything is in a canopy.

 

Yep, I've got some especially when I fired up the MH's for a test and fired up the fuge lights.

Still trying to figure out a way to block the light without trapping any more heat.

 

Well...no!?! what can I do? maybe a blanket over the top?!
I will work on something now that yall mention it!

 

This is what I did on my 30 long:

 

Matt, I can't tell much from the pic. Looks like a suspended sheet behind it, and to the left? Please explain what you did. 8)

To answer your post; I have a bit, about a 12" triangle on the wall to the left reflecting from between the bottom of the light fixture and the top of the tank. I don't find it offensive, though. It's not too bad.

My wife did originally comment that during dinner, she didn't think we needed the ceiling fan light on anymore.

 

Yeah that's all it is. It did reduce a lot of the glare. 8)