candymancan
Aquarium Advice FINatic
Well, I honestly don't know what you guys are talking about for the lighting... A lot of people say to use this and that light, but you guys do realize that pink lights are the best to grow plants right ? Red and Blue spectrums... Colormax, may be a "colormax" light but its spectrum is really high in red's in the 600-700nm range, and same for its blue spectrum its a pink bulb... The other bulb I have tho is a Full spectrum light but that's only because they don't make 15 inch bulb's anymore... Home depot, lowes, fish stores.. Online no one makes or sells them anymore so im stuck using that white bulb.. It has no red spectrum but it does have a high blue spectrum..
I know a guy with a 220 gallon tank on youtube, who has only 140w of light in his tank which is under 1 wat per gallon and he grows plants like mad.. hes using pink bulbs tho..
So im not trying to bash anyone here in the thread you do know more about plants then me for the most part but I really don't think you need extremely high watts per gallon to grow or maintain color on plants... but we will see..
Question, my 15 inch lamp.. It uses 15 inch 15 watt florescent bulbs.. Could I simply open the lamp.. and pull out one of the ballest tabs that the lamps click into and extend it to work with 18 inch bulbs ? That way I can get rid of this darn full spectrum bulb and go with a bulb that has both red and blue spectrums ? It will be an 18 inch over 15 inches that it was made for but both bulbs are 15 watts. Or would this cause the bulb to explode ? Or do you think it would make my tank look weird with 2 pink bulbs ?
Anyway, I got some API root tabs, but they made my tanks extremely cloudy I don't think you can use root tabs with an undergravel filter.. lol but yea. Im using the co2 booster everyday in my tanks, the flourish im using 2x a week and the leaf zone 1x a week.. My red nesaea are growing they are growing new leaves on top and they are sprouting roots out of the middle of the stems in mid water.. I forgot what that's called.. They are also holding there color.. The right one is still blood red, and the left one is still orange to blood red like it was when I got it..
Those Limnophila hippuroides, are also holding their color's.. They are growing as well.. I can see the new leaves sprouting open on top and blooming like a flower does when it opens up.. They are half green half pink/purple still.. Mostly purple on the bottom of the leaves.. But these plants have been in my tanks for 2 weeks now... And here is a updated picture of the 2 in my 27g hex See how much purple/pink it has in it ? I admit it doesn't look quiet as beautiful as yours but mine are also still newely planted.. I wish I could fast forward time and see what they will look like in 2-3 months.. but rest assured I will keep regular updates.. These 2 down here in this pic are in my hexagon tank.. the ones in my first pic on the first page are from the 30 gallon 1-2 weeks ago...
I know a guy with a 220 gallon tank on youtube, who has only 140w of light in his tank which is under 1 wat per gallon and he grows plants like mad.. hes using pink bulbs tho..
So im not trying to bash anyone here in the thread you do know more about plants then me for the most part but I really don't think you need extremely high watts per gallon to grow or maintain color on plants... but we will see..
Question, my 15 inch lamp.. It uses 15 inch 15 watt florescent bulbs.. Could I simply open the lamp.. and pull out one of the ballest tabs that the lamps click into and extend it to work with 18 inch bulbs ? That way I can get rid of this darn full spectrum bulb and go with a bulb that has both red and blue spectrums ? It will be an 18 inch over 15 inches that it was made for but both bulbs are 15 watts. Or would this cause the bulb to explode ? Or do you think it would make my tank look weird with 2 pink bulbs ?
Anyway, I got some API root tabs, but they made my tanks extremely cloudy I don't think you can use root tabs with an undergravel filter.. lol but yea. Im using the co2 booster everyday in my tanks, the flourish im using 2x a week and the leaf zone 1x a week.. My red nesaea are growing they are growing new leaves on top and they are sprouting roots out of the middle of the stems in mid water.. I forgot what that's called.. They are also holding there color.. The right one is still blood red, and the left one is still orange to blood red like it was when I got it..
Those Limnophila hippuroides, are also holding their color's.. They are growing as well.. I can see the new leaves sprouting open on top and blooming like a flower does when it opens up.. They are half green half pink/purple still.. Mostly purple on the bottom of the leaves.. But these plants have been in my tanks for 2 weeks now... And here is a updated picture of the 2 in my 27g hex See how much purple/pink it has in it ? I admit it doesn't look quiet as beautiful as yours but mine are also still newely planted.. I wish I could fast forward time and see what they will look like in 2-3 months.. but rest assured I will keep regular updates.. These 2 down here in this pic are in my hexagon tank.. the ones in my first pic on the first page are from the 30 gallon 1-2 weeks ago...