What type of ligthing setups are we all using in our tanks.

Hi my fellow fishy friends.

Was wondering about this on my way to work this morning.

So lets see if we can get a couple of inputs on this topic.

Please state whether you got a planted, low tech planted tank or non planted

NB please mention what type of tube your are using and the kelvin rating.

So I just recently got my lights for my tank, and I bought the wrong tube 12000k a bit hectic, So I replaced it with a Sylvania daylight 6500k I will be getting another ballasts and will then get a Osram Skywhite 8000k tube.

I will only be planting about 6 - 7 species of plants for my Tiger barbs setup.

Ferns, Sword species, Crypts, Anubias, Bacopa's and Vallis.

Come on guys lets get a couple of replies on this thread.

This will also be good info for beginners/newbies in this wonderful hobby of ours.

Happy fishy days.

 

I have the following:
12l quarantine/fry grow out tank - 8w 1ft T5 6000k
100l Heavily planted (no ferts) - 25w Red Boyu T8 (6500k), 2x20w White Boyu T8 (6500k)
300l Planted Community tank - 54w Aquastar(10000k) tube and a 54w Radium Bonalux Super Skylux (8000k) currently running DIY CO2 to be changed to pressurised CO2 - Will probably add another 2x54w 6500k to the setup when the equipment arrives

 

Ok i have:
130l low tech planted - 4 x 14w cool white 6500k opple flourecent
- 2 x 20w cool white 6500k opple cfl
- ferts
- diy co2

72l low tech planted - 3 x 8w cool white 6500k opple flourecent
- 2 x 20w cool white 6500k opple cfl

30l fry tank - 1 x 15w 6500k grow lux

30l breeding tank - 1 x 20 cool white 6500k opple cfl

15l quarantine tank - 1 x 14w cool white 6500k phillips cfl

 

4ft High tech planted
6 x T5 39W sylvania 6500K

 

37l Boyu low tech (co2 from aerosol canister and excel) heavily planted 2X 11w (the size that comes with the tank x 2) and 2 x 20w warm white cfl 14l with diy co2 20w warm whit cfl in a desk lamp:bigsmile:

 

5 ft High tec planted
6 x T5 54W Sylvania 8800k

600 x 600 x 450mm Cube (not yet started)
4 x T5 24W Sylvania 8000k

 

20l skimz IB20 - planted - co2=excel daily - light=1x20w ACDC CFL @ 6500k

40l Boyu - planted - high tech - lights=2x15w oppel CFL's

 

duno if mine is hightech or low tech....
4ft , running 2x diy co2 setups .
i use 1x54w t5 6500k and 1x sylvania aquastar 54w 100k light , they work well . I also have 2x39w 6500k lights which i dont really turn on ..
plant grow well running the 2x54w , but grow insane with all 4 .

 

4ft tank running 6x54w T5 ATI unit. with pressurised 2kg co2
1ft tank running 48w cfl with pressurised 2kg co2.
plant growth is extreme.

 

holy hell Ivan, that small tank got so much light. Where did you buy a 48w cfl?

 

35L Low-tech planted running 18W CFL - 6400k

 

@Rory Testing site, it does not go to page 2.

 

90x90x40cm tank 8x39w t5 x8000k and 2x6500k tubes persurized co2
4ft tank 85cm deep, 4x54w t5 low tech

 

Hey Ryno, you forgot to add the k rating on your 4ft tank setup my tank is also deep at 780.

 

same as my cube

 

ok cool then, I will be getting 1 x 8000k tube tomorrow. So I will be running 1 x 6500k 54w T5 and 1 x 8000k 54w T5 for my tank.

The 6500k with the reflector already lights up my tank nicely.

 

100L low tech planted tank(non co2 / excel tank), Odyssea 24w dual T5 unit 1X 10000k and 1X 4000K
I'm not really a strong believer in the importance of correct light.:laugh: