Is this enogh light?

[Tobykourtney]

I have 2 coralife NO t5 48" lights on my 55 gallon tank along with DIY co2 injection and flourish. Anyone have any input on if this is enough light for plant growth?

 

[Lonewolfblue]

What's the watts? I did a search on what you put and there's some coralife fixtures that are 2x28W 48" and some that are 2x54W 48", and they were both labeled as HO.

 

[Tobykourtney]

28 watts a piece 112 watts combined

 

[Lonewolfblue]

That's a good amount of light for low and medium light plants, but for plants towards the upper end of medium and high light plants, they won't do as well. There's a lot of plants you will be able to get with that setup.

 

[Lonewolfblue]

What kind of plants were you thinking about getting?

 

[Tobykourtney]

Currently have java fern,banana plants,and pellia moss. I have another plant but don't no what it's called ill post a pic of it.

 

[Tobykourtney]

This is the plant in question

 

[aqua_chem]

Looks like dwarf hairgrass.


It sounds like you have a reasonable amount of light for the setup you're running. I assume you have several 2L DIY CO2 reactors running?

 

[Tobykourtney]

I have 2 two liter reactors

 

[Tobykourtney]

I think the 2-2 liter diy co2 reactors isn't enough im starting to notice a bit of a green tint in my water