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Global Aquaria is your ultimate source for marine aquarium lighting. We can provide aquarium lights, bulbs, saltwater aquarium filtration equipment, necessary chemical products, nutritional products for your fish, and everything else you need for maintaining a clean, healthy aquarium. For lighting equipment we offer various wattages and brands of bulbs and lamps. Some of the products we sell also have lunar light cycles and fans for 24 hour lighting solutions for your livestock. Many of our lamps also come installed in hoods that are outfitted with cooling fans and acrylic hoods. We areyour one stop source for fish aquarium supplies of all types.


Marine Aquarium Lighting

There are many different types of lights available for aquarium owners to choose from. Choosing the right lamp and bulbs is important to the health of your tank's fish. Most fish are on a 12 hour biological clock cycle. Their bodies react to light and need regular 12 hour intervals of light and darkness. If there are periods of time when you will not be available to turn the lights on and off or if you might have problems remembering to do this it may be advisable to purchase a system with a timer to automatically turn the lights on and off.

Available types of marine aquarium lighting include regular florescent lights, high output florescent, very high output florescent, compact florescent, LED, and metal halide. The type of light advised for your aquarium is extremely dependent on the type of life you plan on keeping in your tank. Tanks that will include only fish have different aquarium lights requirements than tanks that will have plants or living rock as well. Even if you have a tank that has only fish you will need to research the lighting needs of each individual type of fish in the tank to see which type will be most healthy for them.