missmonday
Aquarium Advice Freak
I got nearly all of my aquarium equipment from a deal off of craigslist, so I don't have all of the necessary packaging, etc. to identify everything I have, but I'll do my best.
I've had a 28 gallon tank with plants and fish running for a little over a month now. Plants include: water wisteria, amazon chain sword, cryptocoryne lutea, cryptocoryne spiralis, hornwort and rotala indica.
Originally, I could only get one of the lights to work, and it has 2 T5 bulbs (6,700K) and it's on for about 8 hours a day. I haven't really had any algae problems aside from a little due to new tank start up. There was some brown algae growing on the tips of my wisteria leaves, but after adding some platys yesterday, they ate all the algae off! I didn't even know platys ate algae
Anywho, I couldn't get the other light to work for some reason, so I just set it aside, but after cleaning today, I plugged it in on a whim and lo and behold, it works!! This light says "all glass aquarium lamp 17W" and only has one bulb. I don't have the original packaging so I don't know anymore than that, sorry :\
The lady I got all the things from was really into growing aquatic plants, so I know the light fixtures are good, I just don't want to add too much light and cause an algae problem or freak out my fish.
What do you guys think? Should I go ahead and add the other light to my tank?
I've had a 28 gallon tank with plants and fish running for a little over a month now. Plants include: water wisteria, amazon chain sword, cryptocoryne lutea, cryptocoryne spiralis, hornwort and rotala indica.
Originally, I could only get one of the lights to work, and it has 2 T5 bulbs (6,700K) and it's on for about 8 hours a day. I haven't really had any algae problems aside from a little due to new tank start up. There was some brown algae growing on the tips of my wisteria leaves, but after adding some platys yesterday, they ate all the algae off! I didn't even know platys ate algae
Anywho, I couldn't get the other light to work for some reason, so I just set it aside, but after cleaning today, I plugged it in on a whim and lo and behold, it works!! This light says "all glass aquarium lamp 17W" and only has one bulb. I don't have the original packaging so I don't know anymore than that, sorry :\
The lady I got all the things from was really into growing aquatic plants, so I know the light fixtures are good, I just don't want to add too much light and cause an algae problem or freak out my fish.
What do you guys think? Should I go ahead and add the other light to my tank?