Since I cant afford expensive lighting, what are your opinions on Flora-Glo or Flora Sun Bulbs? It says they emit emmisions for optimum plant growth. I will only be using floating plants like anacharis and milfoil, so I dont think high intensity lighting will be neccessary because the plants will be so close to the lighting. There will be 2 40 watt bulbs in a 125 gallon tank. What do you think? Thanks in advance!
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K is kelvin. kelvin measures to things. one its a temperature scale, its 273* warmer then the temp in Celcius, and two it measures the color temperature of light. at different color temps there are different waves of the spectrum. at lower kelvins there is more red, in the middle is kinda whiteish blue and at the end is blueish purple. the ideal rating for plants is somewhere between 5000 and 10000K. this area has the greatest amount of useble light for the plants and also helps make the tank look good.
i was using agro sun bulbs in a reg hope dopey fixture for a while. i do indoor gardening and have delt with alot of bulbs they are the best imo 6700K rating. and are brighter than most others.
Thank you, you all have given me a lot of useful info, so now all I have to do is go buy some lights! I think Im going to go go w/ the Coralife Nutri Grow Plant Lamps, what do you think? They are only about $11 for the size I need