blue light vs white light vs pink light

Hey peeps

I just wanted to hear from you guys which of the above flourecents is the better, i currently have a white, and the tank looks a bit yellow....

this might actually just be colouring being caused by the drift wood feature....

looking forward to your responses

Arcky:bigsmile:

 

I dont really like funny light colours, its not natural for me. The driftwood would release tannin in the water for up to 6 months, even it its boiled. And beyond popular believes.....carbon does not filter tannin out.

 

aah ok....thanks for the feedback Go-Big

 

Just keep up those water changes. My 'tee' colour is getting lighter by the day. I'm a big fan of driftwoods...... my tank looked like Rio negro when i started that one up.

 

You generally get 3 types of white.
1 warm white- very yellow look about 4000K
2 daylight- better for plants and not so yellow 6500K
3 Sky White- very white light tending towards slightly blue 8000K

Blue lights are just for show and to make fish look better. Some say they cause bad algae.

Pink lights are usually growlux lamps. Best tube for plant growth between these choices.
Most people will mix daylight lamps with growlux lamps for good growth and
a good look.

You can remove tannins with puregin.

Gerhard

 

ROFL!!! @Go-Big

will do....i did a 20% water change on tuesday, but havent since then cause im medicating the tank at the moment with General Tonic (Tetra) at the moment cause my one guppy have swollen eyeballs....but since the medicating she is starting to look much more lively.

should i still be doing the water changes, or wait until the guppy is fully recovered , cause the meds is only ment to be used once over a 7 day period.

Also, i bought some aqaurium salt cause i was told that this also helps prevents diesease, i havent added it as yet though, was told to only add a very small amount.

 

Vis. Purigen only does Ammonia / Nitrite / Nitrate. Tannin is acid. (humic infubic acids) Its a chemical binding and can only be debinded using chemicals like alimunimum chloro hidrate. al this in the flocilation prosess. Spelling...not right.

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I would just take the carbon out of your filter while medicating.

Salt is very good for lots af diseases and for prevention. It stimulated slime production on the skin and acts as a natural healer.

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There is lots of other reason y salt is good.

 

Go-Big you might want to check your statement about purigen
and tannins again. Loads of people use it for this.
Just search this site.

 

yes i did when i join here, and i saw the commom belief. Its just not posible. i would rather credit water change over a period and they might think its the carbon or purigen. The information a gave is from the CEO of MetsiChem Ikapa. They clear water for munisipal use and as you know we people does not like to see brown water in there taps. If purigen and carbon could clear tannin ever town and citi would have a mayor production plant.

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CEO of Metsichem Ikapa is PW Pretorius, he is a very good mate of mine. i might ask him to do a article on Tannin for us.

 

I have a filter cateridge for a SP 1100 Resun filter, when i looked inside, i think it just has some bio balls in there, this isnt the carbon you are reffering too, is it?

so i can continue with the daily water changes?

 

That is MetsiChem in George if you are Googling.

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I would wait till the 7 days are over. No, Carbon is like charcoal. Small cylindric shapes about 3-6mm long and 4 mm across. You also get carbon looking like little black random rocks. But you cant have just bio-balls in?

y do you do daily water changes? Once a week is fine.

 

ok cool.... will have a look in the filter properly when i give it a rinse next.

oh,i havent been doing the daily water changes yet, i was going to start cause i read a Article in the newbie section that suggested doing a 10% water change very day for a newly started tank, my tank is only 2 1/2 weeks old now. I must say i can see where i have gone wrong in areas with this tank, next time i will wait a while longer before adding fish

 

purigen and carbon definitely remove colourants from the water.

 

Hi Slingularity. Colourants yes, but not Tannin. there is a big difference.

 

Anyway, back on topic, i always like to add some blue tubes (like 2x6500K and 1x20000K) for that nice crisp look, blue really makes all the difference in viewing, havent had algae issues yet.

 

Will do my best in getting that article from my friend.

 

Guess seachem is lying to everyone --> http://www.aquaticplantcentral.com/forumapc/showpost.php?p=532154&postcount=2
more lies --> http://www.seachem.com/support/forums/archive/index.php/t-1912.html
Seachem actually think that purigen AND carbon remove tannins (idiots !) --> http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...m/support/forums/archive/index.php/t-554.html

 

Money does lie! lol.

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Hey, just to get perspective here. i have tried removing tannin with carbon and purigen for 3 months. The improvement can be from water changes. Soooo.......i ask my chemical engineer friend for help. Id rather trust him that someone making money off me.

 

did you ever consider that the tannins was leaching faster than the carbon/purigen could deal with it ?

 

Good point. I have loads of driftwood.

The only reason why i challenge this belief of carbon/purigen is the chemisty explanation i got. something must makes sense to me before i can believe it and knowledge is sense. because everyone says it work does not make me a believer. This might bring light to us all.