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Ill go have a look at the light the tank came with and see if you can let me know what type it is
Ok thank you so much for your help. Can I just upgrade the light tube ? It do I have to replace the whole unit I can't find any info on the unit so I'm not sure ?
Sounds good! Someone else might know what the green stuff is. And 6.5k is fine and you should be able to grow any of the plants you have in your other tanks. As for filters, a couple good HOB are aqua clears and fluval c series. Glad your feeling more confident with your tank and starting to enjoy it!
Ok cool will I be able to grow any medium light plants ? Or any red plants ? I won't be able to fit a HOB filter under my hood so I was going to just go with an internal filter. I've thought about a canister filter but I've never used one before and don't even know how they work. I really want black substrate like my aquasoil but it's just so expensive. Do you know of any black sand hat aquarium safe and cheap ? If not I guess I'll bite the bullet and get the aquasoil.
You may be able to keep medium light plants alive but growth may be really slow. Maybe try cabomba furctata. For substrate I really like Super Naturals: Tahitian Moon sand, I have it in my big tank and its great stuff
All the internal filters that are rated for at least 200litres are quite big and chunky and I'd rather have one other than two smaller ones.
What's your budget? Or a general range of what you would like to spent on a filter? I'm not a fan of internal filters, I'm sure they work fine, but I would hate seeing it all the time in my tank, I already hate seeing my intake strainer and heater haha