Morgan,
I hope you are doing well. My used Glock came with Glock night sights. Well one night I took my gun out and tried to sight in a tree and I couldent see my sights at all!! So I’ve been looking around at sights but I’m not really sure what I want besides a set of real night sight that actually work! What works best I have a budget of $100 maximum.

Thanks!

Rob

Rob,
I’m afraid you are going to be disappointed with my response.  Tritium night sights are useless Glock Bling just like lasers. 
At Gunsite, we train at night.  Almost every one has night sights.  Let me tell you something first.  I’ve had my 23 for a very long time.  I’ve never bought a Glock brand new, and I didn’t buy this one brand new.  I train extensively with my 23.  It had Trijicon night sights on it when I bought it.  Over the years they have slowly faded (as all tritium sights do.  They only last for about eight years, max.)  Mine are now long since darkened.  So, the good thing is that I’ve trained with glowing sights at night and non-glowing sights at night.  And here is what I’ve learned.  Simply put: 

 
IF IT’S TOO DARK TO SEE YOUR FRICKIN’ SIGHTS, IT’S TOO DARK TO SHOOT AT PEOPLE.
 
Remember, a gun is a tool of death.  This is not a game of touch football.  When you pull that trigger, you are going to kill whatever you hit.  Can you comprehend the word kill?  Would you walk into a dark room in your house full of people and start poking them with a sharpened pencil?  No?  Then why would you do the same with a gun?
 
Most people’s houses have more than one person in them.  Do you know where every member of your family is at all times?  How about right now?  Could a member of your family suddenly walk in on you while you’re sitting here at the computer?  My point is that in any house, there is a vastly higher probability of someone you know lurking in the shadows than Charley the Serial Killer.  If Charley does show up, you want to clearly and definatly identify him and then shoot him using regular plain old iron sights.  You do not want to be the father who shot his own little girl in her own closet while playing hide-and-seek.  (True story)
 
What is one of the four rules that every responsible person with a gun knows by heart:  Be certain of your target and what’s around it and behind it.
 
Can you obey this rule when you can’t even see your sights?  What the hell are you point that death-machine at?  What’s behind your target?  What’s beside it?  This is no joke.  Glowing night sights are not only useless, they are dangerous.  They encourage people to shoot unidentified targets.
 
Glowing night sights are bitchin’, no doubt.  The whole idea of something that glows without batteries or exposing it to light is just what every kid wants.  Hell, I had my share of glow-in-the-dark monster models when I was a kid.  The Mummy was one of my favorites.  But you know what?  Glow-in-the-dark gun sights are just as ridiculous. 
 
Do yourself and your loved-ones a favor and paint-out your tritium sights with white enamel and use that 100 bucks on ammo and training.  As a corollary to the old saying: “Beware the man who only has one gun (he probably knows how to use it).”  I’d add:  “Beware the man who does not rely on batteries, tritium, expensive gunsmithing or high-tech solutions to problems that don’t exist (he is probably well-trained and willing to use his gun when he needs to.)
 
So, what’s the solution?  Learn to use a flashlight.  “Darn, that’s not as cool as radio-active sights, though, Morgan.”  Yep.  And they do take batteries, unfortunately.  I carry a flashlight wherever I go.  Think about it.  If information is the most important component to strategy, a flashlight can be more important than your gun.
 
Keep on Glockin’
Morgan

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