Clare
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Hope that someone can help me with the following questions.
I recently set up a 115G freshwater - 24" deep x 60" length x 18" wide. Doing lots of research on the web gives me tons of info, most of which is more technical that I can relate to.
I already had a 48" T5 HO Coralife fixture with two 6700K bulbs so that is current what it on it. I also recently ordered a new 48" 4 bulb T5 HO Coralife fixture and plan to put in all 6700K bulbs (it comes with 10K and actinic and two blue LEDs).
Will this be sufficient lighting for most low to moderate plants? I am not planning to put in a CO2 unit. If I figured it correctly I should wind up with 2.8W per gallon, though I see from my reading that the watts per gallon rule is generally not a totally sufficient guideline - is this true?
Finding reasonably priced 60" lighting was nearly impossible and I am not the DIY type for the most part I figure I would just plant my higher light plants in the middle and leave the ends for the the plants that require less light - or I could just stagger the fixtures....btw, the pic I uploaded shows additional Coralife fixtures that I recently sold.
Thoughts, please?
Thanks tons,
Clare
I recently set up a 115G freshwater - 24" deep x 60" length x 18" wide. Doing lots of research on the web gives me tons of info, most of which is more technical that I can relate to.
I already had a 48" T5 HO Coralife fixture with two 6700K bulbs so that is current what it on it. I also recently ordered a new 48" 4 bulb T5 HO Coralife fixture and plan to put in all 6700K bulbs (it comes with 10K and actinic and two blue LEDs).
Will this be sufficient lighting for most low to moderate plants? I am not planning to put in a CO2 unit. If I figured it correctly I should wind up with 2.8W per gallon, though I see from my reading that the watts per gallon rule is generally not a totally sufficient guideline - is this true?
Finding reasonably priced 60" lighting was nearly impossible and I am not the DIY type for the most part I figure I would just plant my higher light plants in the middle and leave the ends for the the plants that require less light - or I could just stagger the fixtures....btw, the pic I uploaded shows additional Coralife fixtures that I recently sold.
Thoughts, please?
Thanks tons,
Clare