Household Fluorescent Bulbs

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

You're running reef tanks right? You're household lighting would be a drop in the bucket by comparison.

It's winter, so are you also running electric heating? More cooking lately? Any other changes.

Like was mentioned earlier, the fluorescent lighting shouldn't make a dif. upwards. I changed most of my incandescents to CFL bulbs & it really helps.

Anthony

[mark]

The company has a product to save energy by rapidly turning fluorescents off and on. http://www.fifthlight.com/technology.htm (might help if I include link)

[Johnny Reefer]

Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic

.... It's winter, so are you also running electric heating? More cooking lately? Any other changes. ....

Heat's paid for by the landlord. No increase in cooking. But....yes, there was a change. That being the 135 FOWLR tank I got up and running in late November. It's down time before that would have been more than half of the period covered on the hydro bill previous to the last one so I didn't really notice a difference back then. It is only now that the consumption difference has become apparent.
Last November wasn't that long ago, I suppose. It just seems so long ago that the FOWLR tank did not occur to me as the culprit.

Anyhoo....thanx for the responses guys. Sometimes it takes a stupid question and some obvious responses to kick start the brain into thinkin' more clearly and broadly.

Thanx again and cheers

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

No problemo. Since this is a fish forum, I thought that if you're anything like most of us addicts, there must have been a new tank or something added in the last little while. I'm now up to about 500g of fw & sw tanks. Ouch.

Anthony