Pond Lights

Pond lighting is not a new concept and people have used all types of lights to illuminate and beautify a pond at night. Candles on a piece of wood or a small oil lamp on a banana leaf have been used from centuries in the Far East to light up ponds and lakes. Nowadays garden and fish ponds can be lit up as easily the garden and a well lit pond does wonders to add to the beauty of the garden pond and fish pond. There are halogens lights, spot lights, floating lights, submersible lights, solar lights and now fiber optic lights that one can use to light up the pond. Currently pond lighting is more a work of active imagination then setting up the actual lights. Pond lights are also available in different colors and different colored lights that switch on with a timer can actually make a pond a brilliant display at night. Needless to say that water is a good conductor of electricity so any lighting that is placed inside a pond should be absolutely free of even the minutest fault.

Floating solar pond lights are available in different color and get charged by solar heat during the day and light up automatically at night. Floating solar pond lights will float gently on the water and do not consume any electricity and therefore there is no cabling involved.

If one wants to install underwater lighting for a pond here again one has a number of choices, colored lights, spot lights. There is quite a choice in pond underwater lighting systems. Underwater pond lights give a different dimension to a garden pond or a fish pond. Pond egg lights are another clever and cheap way to light up a pond. One can get pond egg lights with clear and colored lens and they can be placed in the pond, outside the pond or they can be made to float on the pond also. Pond egg light kits have low powered bulbs 10W and use 12 volts and come with a transformer. Led submersible pond lighting are also low power consumers and generate far less heat then halogen lights and some kits have a color controller so that the lights keep changing colors. Globe pond lights are again low power consuming floating lights that can be used to illuminate a pond. Then there is the new entry in pond lighting which is pond fiber optic lights. Pond fiber optic lights are not placed in the water yet their effect is such that they illuminate the entire pond and with the use of timers a moving scene can be created of the pond and the surroundings.

Koi pond lights should not be heat generating lights as these can warm up the water and affect the fish. In a koi fish pond that has koi pond lights the lighting should be such that it displays the color of the koi fish and the movement of the fish would be like looking at the pond through a colorful kaleidoscope.

There is such a variety of garden pond lights for one to select from and the lights can be easily moved around to keep changing the light effects using the underwater pond lights and the floating lights. The wires and the lights should be placed such that they do not hamper the movement of the fish or the growth of the plants in the ponds. Placing heat generating lights close to plants is going to kill them and the fish and the koi fish are going to have a go at trying to taste any lights and wires. But a proper selection of floating and underwater pond lights in the pond can really be very pleasing to the eyes