Temporary lighting?

[maryeldo]

I also posted this in the reef keepers forum.
I have a 29 gallon eclipse combo salwater tank. 29-20lbs of live rock, large leather coral, 3 diff polyp "families", sun coral, and a few hermit crabs.
The light plug on the tank went out. Acually the plug fused itself to my wall. Now the light will not work and frankly I am scared to even try to plug it back in. The lights are brand new. The filter and protein skimmer are still going strong.

Marineland says my new hood will be here in 4 business days.
Any suggestions for temporary lighting?

 

[Max]

Fwiw, the four days with out light shouldn't kill your critters. I would slowly increase the light starting at about 5 hours per day when you get the lights back increase light 30 mins a day every two days until you reach your normal lights on time. I'd also have an electrician check the outlet before I did anything there a rather large possiblility of a fire hazard and you don't need that.
hth and welcome to A.C.
Max

 

[maryeldo]

Thank you for the welcome and for the information. I won't be pulling my hair out all weekend now.

 

[mayran]

I have an eclipse hood and the lighting went out on it as well. However, My problem was not with the plug, but the switch. The switch ceased to function, so I opened it up, removed the switch and bypassed it so that when it was plugged in, the lights were on. This worked fine for me as I had it on a timer anyway. No problems since then.