Ideal Lighting For Piranhas & Plants

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
OK .
Lighting ?

You can grow nice plants on 2 watts per gallon , SO 100 gal tank = 200 wats of lighting .

I have a 150 gal tank and I run 300 watts of lighting , You want plant lights
not just a stander bulb .

What I did was went to HOME DEPOT/LOWES exc.............

I bought clamp on flood light fixtures with some plant grow lights at 75 watts
a peace . I also run regular florescent lights to help with looks of the fish and tank . Ill get pic up of my set up to help get you a visual
 
Well I took one of the fixtures out of the attic and went to home depot and picked up two Phillips Natural Sunshine lights. They are 40 watts, 2200 lumens and have a color temperature of 5000k. I haven't ever tried putting decent lights on a tank before so I don't really know what any of this means, but the box has a picture of an aquarium on it so they have to be good (joking).

If these are no good, I've only got like $10 invested.
 
try to find 6700k bulbs. there best for plants
 
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