Vivarium lighting question 2.0

[AbranV]

Good afternoon my friends,

I posted some lighting questions a while back, and now have some follow up questions.

I'm building a 10 gallon PCF tank, planted as natural to Oregon as I can get. My current line of lighting question have to do with brightness.

While shopping around, I've found quite a few options in CFL and LED bulbs within the 6500 Kelvin range, but I'm a little worried about brightness.

Is there any potential harm that can happen to the frogs(vision, etc)?

Can a person diffuse the light without losing the effectiveness of the light for plants?

Am I over thinking this? OR......... .should I try and build some frog sized sunglasses?

[deranged chipmunk]

I would recommend some frog sized sunglasses, a tiny bottle of sun lotion, maybe a little umbrella. Lol

No, you don't need to worry about the brightness. Even the strongest LEDs aren't even close to what direct sunlight throws off.


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[deranged chipmunk]

Oh, you can diffuse the light using a piece of eggcrate on top of your tanks lid. That's actually the true purpose of eggcrate, it's a light diffuser


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