Can I just use the Daylight LED type bulbs as lighting for my plants?
WIll it be enough to sustain growth in an submerged or emersed setup?
WIll it be enough to sustain growth in an submerged or emersed setup?
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- Thread starter lordpaladin
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All depends on depth. A for around 6700k value and what plants your trying to grow. Co2 or no? 10k is not ideal
I have anubias and bucephalandras.
Im planning not to use CO2 on one batch of these plants.
You don't need much at all for those plants. Too much light and the algae with cover all the leaves in no time.
I know for sure that Anubias and Java Fern don't require bright light like
philipraposo1982
has stated.
philipraposo1982
has stated.
As philipraposo1982 stated it’s about the depth and the size of the tank. More than likely Your marineland reef light has 10,000k you need between 4500 and 7500 ideally 6500 is what you need. And the plants you named off will be fine without CO2.
Marine tank lights tend to be around 13,000K which is far from ideal...
I've done 4x (10K T5-HO) in the past, but was a high light, high fert and high Co2 setup for shrimp and plants... it does work, but take a lot of fine tuning...
Anyway, Buce and Anubias dont really require a high light setting, so aim for around 6700K, coz as mentioned, too much light and you'll probably have a lot of algae growing on your plants...
I've done 4x (10K T5-HO) in the past, but was a high light, high fert and high Co2 setup for shrimp and plants... it does work, but take a lot of fine tuning...
Anyway, Buce and Anubias dont really require a high light setting, so aim for around 6700K, coz as mentioned, too much light and you'll probably have a lot of algae growing on your plants...
Kelvin is the rating of the colouration of the bulb to human eyes..and tells us almost nothing about the underlying spectrum. Yes SOME 6500k bilbs have useful spectrum but not all...AT ALL. There is such a huge variety of potential spectrum peaks that can create a 6500k appearance that kelvin is in no way indicative of the quality of the light for plant purposes.