Marineland LED

[Fishkeeper92]

Might be moving up to a 20 planted and possibly purchasing a LED light with day and lunar lights. Would this be good for my plants and what kind of lighting would it be? Low? Moderate?

 

[Oscarr19]

Low-modertate. The LEDs set up at my LFS seem really dimly lit.

 

[hippy guy]

It depends, are they the singlebright ones? If so..no way. The double bright ml led.s maybe. My advice is get a coralife, therepretty decent cheap t5.s, and my plants love them lol

 

[Fishkeeper92]

Yeah they are single. Im scrapped for cash right now and trying to get a decent low- moderate light for not to much especially for a 20g if it were a bigger time i wouldnt expect cheap

 

[Oscarr19]

See if you can get a waterhome 20G kit. Should be the same price and comes with fluorescent bulbs.

 

[Fishkeeper92]

Right now i have asian ambulia, anubias, anacharis, and amazon swords. That light be good for those plants?

 

[Oscarr19]

I'm not too good with plants but i think you should be good except for the sword. Hopefully somebody more knowledgable will chime in.

 

[hippy guy]

You can get a coralife t5 24 in double fixture for under 60 and grow all of those plants. The sword would do better with more light and c02 however

 

[Fishkeeper92]

I have Co2 injectors for the tank theyre in now and about 5 watts per gallon at the moment. Better light in my 20g would make me happier and the plants too.

 

[hippy guy]

Coralife 24 in t5 fixture, cheap, reliable, and has the slimline design kids love these days

 

[Amicus]

I am not saying my lfs was right but I was looking into a new fixture for my tank (planted) and he was telling me that the new line of Marineland reef capable fixtures were the ones that would work. I asked if the double bright would work and he said no. Hmmmm.... Double may work for a 20 (long)? I'm going to find an article and post the link here. If you find out what'll work let us know because there are a lot of interested people.

 

[Amicus]

Here is the link to a good table PAR vs Distance, T5, T12, PC - Updated Again Charts

This is the link to the article I was talking about.
Aquarium Lighting; Kelvin, Nanometers, PAR, Bulb, Watt, MH, LED, Light Basics.
It is a little boggling, I had to read it about five times, but will help you to get where you're going.

 

[Fishkeeper92]

Thank you for all the help.