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Lighting
At 03:48 AM 4/4/2000 -0400, Diana Peachdoo wrote:
> I am trying to educate myself on the subject of lighting....
>I remain puzzled.
I think you are overdoing this. I tend to go for the watts/gallon (because
it is easy and I am lazy). I also belong to the "remove a five-gallon
bucket of plants each week" school of thunderous growth, so I go for
4w/gal. I go for a color temperature that makes the plants look nice, but
since I am cheap I compromise on 5000-5500K. 6000-6500K would be OK too if
it were cheap. I am pretty handy and have a fire extinguisher, so I tend
to do it myself, and I buy kits from A H Supply ( http://www.ahsupply.com
). If you stuff about 60% of what will fit over the top of your tank you
will probably be fine. Maybe 2x55w. Tell Kim Bryant at AHSupply that
you read about him in Planted Aquaria Magazine!
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Dave Gomberg, San Francisco mailto:gomberg at wcf_com
Jobe's Fern and Palm Spikes FREE http://www.wcf.com/pam
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