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Are those bulbs for aquatic plants at walmarts any good? What plant species are
in them?
Drumachine09
07-15-2007, 05:54 AM
One of them is apongenton, and thats all i know.
Algenco
07-15-2007, 01:47 PM
They also have a Lily that is very nice, red leaves. The package that's marked "dwarf Lilly" is an apongeton
Lady Hobbs
07-15-2007, 03:18 PM
The lights are probably PennPlax which is a name brand. But I go to the lighting section of the store and buy fluorescents. I just get the cool whites which are much cheaper. Check out Home Depots lights.
Drumachine09
07-15-2007, 03:28 PM
The lights are probably PennPlax which is a name brand. But I go to the lighting section of the store and buy fluorescents. I just get the cool whites which are much cheaper. Check out Home Depots lights.
HAHAHA, love the quote button.
Walmart has aquatic plant bulbs, The ones that grow, not the light kind of bulbs, lol
The lights are probably PennPlax which is a name brand. But I go to the lighting section of the store and buy fluorescents. I just get the cool whites which are much cheaper. Check out Home Depots lights.
Even though the topic was plants, and not lights .. um .. here's a question about those lights anyway :P
Do you know the kelvin of these cool white tubes? Often those warm white and cool white alike are not very well suited for aquarium use, at least not on their own.
Lady Hobbs
07-15-2007, 03:47 PM
What I'm saying is that aquatic bulbs can also be purchased that are not in the fish section. Seems as soon as they put something in the fish section that they add more money to it. I did not explain myself well at all. Sorry. I do have aquatic lights on my planted tanks. The others just have cool whites.
How much light does apongeton need.
Drumachine09
07-15-2007, 05:43 PM
Dev, i belive the lights are in the 7000k range.
How much light does apongeton need.
Most Aponogetion sp. requires medium to very high lighting. Tropica in Denmark has what is probably the best online database of aquarium plants in the world. [Only Registered Users Can See Links.]
Dev, i belive the lights are in the 7000k range.
Very good then, usually cool white generic lighting is in the 4200-5400 range, while normal warm white is in the 2700-4200 range. A tube with 6500-7000 is considered daylight spectrum, and is usually well suited for freshwater aquariums. Might also want to check how wide the spectrum is. Osram and Philips tubes have numbers like 865 inidicatng 80% of daylight spectrum, 6500 kelvin.
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