Lights question

[Eschie]

For the time being, I'm going to purchase a 20 gallon starter kit. I have some anarcharis and corkscrew Val growing in another tank at home and I was wondering which light setup would work best.

The kit can either come with a 24'' fluorescent tube light or an LED strip of lights with 12 little "nodes" on it. I know they'll both be crappy but which do y'all think would be able to support a few plants better. Sadly, there is no info on the wattage of each so that really sucks.

 

[ztigris]

Don't know about the leds but yoy should be able to swap out the cfls to bulbs that have 6500 k lumens.

 

[Eschie]

Even if its a long tube fluorescent and not incandescent bulbs?

 

[ztigris]

You bet. The lumens and reflector are what matter not the Watts. Do you know if they are t8 or t5?

 

[Cichlid Kid]

How can a cfl be swapped for florescent?
I thought the o.p. wanted to keep the original setup and just wanted to know which would be better for plants?
Did you mean swap the entire fixture?

 

[ztigris]

Well, I think it's obvious I mis read the op when I wrote cfl. Ie why I asked if he knew the type of bulb. Shoot me I'm human.

 

[Cichlid Kid]

I wasn't being sarcastic. If I came off that way then I apologize. Didn't know if maybe I missed something along the way.
Anyhow, if it were me, I'd go for the florescent fixture then swap the bulb for a more "plant friendly" one of the same wattage of course.
If you could purchase a 2 bulb incandescent fixture then cfl's would be even better yet.

 

[ztigris]

Thank you, you said what I was trying to say clearer.
I've been pulling very, very long hours at work and am tired. So probably a bit sensitive, my apologies as well.

 

[Tacos377]

Sorry to hijack thread, but in a 10 gallon tank, would 45 watts of one 6500-8000k led light or 2 23 watt 6500k cfls be more efficient? I already have a hood that could accommodate the cfls...

 

[Coursair]

Sorry to hijack thread, but in a 10 gallon tank, would 45 watts of one 6500-8000k led light or 2 23 watt 6500k cfls be more efficient? I already have a hood that could accommodate the cfls...

Start a new thread, you'll get better answers

 

[Coursair]

For the time being, I'm going to purchase a 20 gallon starter kit. I have some anarcharis and corkscrew Val growing in another tank at home and I was wondering which light setup would work best.

The kit can either come with a 24'' fluorescent tube light or an LED strip of lights with 12 little "nodes" on it. I know they'll both be crappy but which do y'all think would be able to support a few plants better. Sadly, there is no info on the wattage of each so that really sucks.

I'd stick with the Fluorescent light. You can possibly swap the bulb for a 6,500K bulb just check max wattage allowed for fixture.