Lighting a 10g planted

[captotterboy]

One more than I am done for a while. I promise

After a talk with sinibotia I realized the lighting hood I was going to use was not powerful enough. He suggested a finnex stingray and I still may go that route. It is just on/off? Does it have a night setting? Does it have a timer? Etc

What other hoods/lights are out there that people like that have the above features if the stingray does not?

 

[brennae]

Finnex specs will be on Amazon under product description. That may answer all your specific questions. I'm sure the Finnex site would help too as they make a few models.

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[Nils]

I would go for the 24/7. Has way more options/functions than a stingray. I mean, sure the stingray isn't even close to the price of a 24/7, but still. Stingray is good though if you got hat route, have the clip light on my 5.5 and it works like a charm.

 

[captotterboy]

Thank you

 

[mrfishybetta]

Not sure if you're still looking for answers on the Finnex Stingray, but I just got the 16" model about 3 weeks ago. It's a nice light - shows the tank's colors off nicely and is good for growing plants. Lightweight and works well with a light timer. However, I keep mostly low-tech, slow-growing plants, so I had to fiddle around with light height and nutrients balance in order to keep algae growth down.

 

[captotterboy]

Low-tech and slow growing sounds my style.

What do you recommend? I just posted this topic about that.

http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/f24/trying-to-narrow-down-my-plants-345111.html

 

[Coursair]

Ok I'm the cheapskate here.
I have a heavily planted 10g.
I started with the cheapest incandescent kit from Petsmart.
I swapped bulbs to Two 10watt mini CFLs ( U shaped).

I grew a ton of plants without CO2 including Myriophyllum mattagrossense (sp?)

LEDs will last a long time. But don't overdo the lighting if you aren't doing CO2.

I have a clip on Archaea LED fixture on my rimless 10g. PAR was almost exactly same as my mini CFLs.

My tank morphs

Excuse the music
http://youtu.be/aptmdICahvM

Someday I may update the lighting.

This is my LED. But it's older and they only used white and blue...so a little cold looking

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[captotterboy]

Looks great!