Lighting question

todd2000

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Now I realize this is a SW board, and I hope you don't stone me for asking this :), but I figured all you guys might have an idea. I have kept freshwater tanks up until a few years ago when my friend convinced me to "dive into SW" with a 38G tank, which went well for about a year till my Clown got Brook (I think) and killed everything. Well anyway, I have a spare 10G sitting around, and have always wanted to try a small freshwater planted tank. So here the question. Anyone know where I can get a small light for a 10Gal tank thats a little brighter then the stock 15W Flourescent tube? It doesn't have to be crazy, mabye 30W or so. Im having trouble finding ones small enough for a 10. The tank itself is 20" wide, but the bulb is really only about 18"long. If not a complete fixture mabye some sort of retrofit kit, that I could put into the strip that the stock light is in? Thanks, and I promise all of my future questions will be about my SW tank :)
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6809570#post6809570 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Tobman
30W sounds like an awful lot. How about one of these?

Might work, but It's not much of an upgrade from my 15W Anyone with planted tank experience, can I keep a good number of plants with 15W, if not any suggestions on fixtures?
 
Coralife Mini PC self ballasted lights. They're 20 watts. Get the pink 'colourmax' ones; your growth rate will be insane.

happy reefin'
 
Dual daylight PC's (i.e. the Coralife FW mini) will be fine for a FW planted tank. We run the 6' Current dual satellite on our 155 FW plant tank and get incredible growth (bi-weekly pruning).
 
And so this remotely relates to SW, those small Coralife FW fixtures make great fuge lights for small setups.
 
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