LED lighting

zarramarie

Hi everyone,
Looking into LED lighting atm, went into adelaide today and looked at a fluval LED aqualife and plant full sprectrum system. 3ft. Anyone had experiences with these? My T8 are going black at the ends again
Guy told me they were great but mmm got to do my research first... Think it was 5,200k. Too low for a planted aquarium??
Thanks Zarra.

321clayt

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Thats my 2ft tank grown under home made 10 3watt led's.
Plants seem to do just fine under them.

zarramarie

Im not sure if i could make it myself.... Looks like u have co2 aswell, i don't. Im just not sure on the spectrum how many i need of each colour or the kelvins. I got told 6500k is good. 5200k may be too less..

zarramarie

Whats the purple colour plant u have? I have one but not sure on the name looks similar. Also ur low going one to the right??.

321clayt

I have co2 on that tank but it rarely turns on. As for plant names I have no idea I just know they dont seem to die. The purple one I got off mooo I think its some type of sword plant.
As for the light spectrum your right go for a range of around 6500k.

Fishful thninkin

http://www.aquaticplantcentral.com/forumapc/lighting/38014-lighting-spectrum-photosythesis.html

here is something that might help if it doesn't confuse you like it did me

Frayk

Nice lookin tank clayt,very nice :-bd

zarramarie

Haha thanks fishful! I understood most of it, started to get confusing but i rkn i got the point of it. Have a lil more understanding now.

Mooo

321clayt said:

The purple one I got off mooo I think its some type of sword plant.

The tank looks stunning .
It's a long leaf Crypt Clayton? green on top , purple underside, with crinkly edging?.
thekrib.com/Plants/Plants/crypts.html#1

zarramarie

mines a crypt but its purple/red on both sides

Errol Wilson

Very Nice, indeed. =D> Looks bril Clayt. ^:)^