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I ended up borrowing a par meter. And I get 40 par at the lowest point

I should be able to grow most things? Almost all things?

Lately I have been playing with some lighting options and would apprecieate your opinions. I made a custom hood in which I am running 2xT12 20w 6500k 24" bulbs over the very center of the tank, and on the sides I tucked in 4x 13w cfl 6500k The light from the 4x cfl really seems to help overlap...

T5 no it says use half value shown on chart, BUT, your using 2xt8=sameas=2xt5no so I'm thinking that the halve of the calculation being in nescessary and if you use the original "fair" line on the graph it puts you at a really high par. It's all pretty confusing but that's what I get from it.

If you use this to judge reflector quality, I think you may find your findings much higher then you had thought.

Depending on the quality of the reflecting your doing you may be in the high range easily. Or even too high light. If you use the graphs not the chart you may get vastly higher readings. I'm assuming that you have atleast fair reflection going on, and with only a fair amount of reflecting going...

I think your reading it wrong there my friend

Difference being would be colour spectrum, being lights I have in there are 2x 8000k, surely 2x 6500k spectrum, would be better. But would the full spectrum lights I have currently work great also?

After numerous hours of research and coming across a informative thread by "hoppy" I am under the impression, that my dual t8 lights are equivalent more less to his 2 bulb 48 inch hd diamond plate shop light 6500k bulb test. Hence , I should be getting around 50-55 par at gravel, and amount...

I'm hoping to be able to get into the medium difficulty plant range.

I am also considering possibly adding 2 cfl.

What could I get away with growing with Dual t8 24" 17w full spectrum bulbs. 38g tank. It's 18" tall. If anyone could back me up with some calculations on this I'd apprecieate it. I'm in the phase of doing a custom hood just trying to use a bunch of spare parts I have. The lighting with two...

Next time put your fish before soccer practice, your coach will understand saving your pet's lives is a valid excuse to show up late to a PRACTICE. If you see a problem with your fish address it immediately, generally no matter what is wrong, water conditions disease infection ect. Usually by...

I have enough fish in my tank it's impossible for shrimp to survive longer then a week. :-/