I am some what new to keeping plants! I have attempted them for the past year, but with no luck. When I move in a few weeks, I am going to dirt my substrate, and cap it off with peat moss, and eco complete. I am not worried about the nutrients that my plants need really :)
Where I do seem to fail, is when it comes to my lighting. I have the worst possible lighting for a planted aquarium. The bulb is only 24 W, on my 55 gallon tank :/ I switch between a bulb with lots of blue/greens, and a bulb with lots of red/oranges. I think that is the only reason my plants have been surviving (not flourishing :( )
Tonight I am going to get my self some nice lights! The first is a normal double bulb T5 system. I will get 2 6700k bulbs. They both have 28 W. Here is a link:
http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=11248153
The next fixture is a little nicer. It's a double t5 HO. I am not sure on what bulbs to get, but probably some type of daylight bulb, and a 10000k bulb. Here is the link:
http://www.petco.com/product/111939/Zoo-Med-AquaSun-T-5-HO-Double-L...
Do both of these together sound like a good combo? Or should I focus on a certain K more? or maybe an acitinic blue? Please help! Thanks!
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def go with the T5HO for your 55g.
The regular T5 is okay but it might be a bit hard to reach down the bottom of the tank.
Daylight bulb and a plant bulb combine will be fine together. daylight are 6500k while plant range from 8000k above..not sure the range are.
thanks for the reply! I am glad someone read this!
But ya, I don't think both fixtures are going to fit real well. and I came home to find my rams had spawn, so I got preoccupied with that, instead of lights.
could you maybe post some examples of what bulbs are best?
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