Stage 10 - Lighting

Now that the CO2 was cranking and the plants were taking off (except the ***) we decided to upgrade our fluro tubes. Not really sure this helped because now the tank looks darker.

This is becuase there are three Fluro tubes in the AquaOne light hood. 2 x 30w and 1 x 25w T8 fluro. And since you cant get a shorter pink 25w fulro, we had to get a 30w pink tube, a 25w PowerGlow and a 30w PowerGlow white.

Now that we have"been there, done that" we wouldn't buy the AquaOne 980. Simply because for a planted aquarium the lights are not adequate. Our fine leafed plants **** are browning off a couple of inches from the top.

We are now looking at getting the AquaOne MG1000 Metal Halide light.... problem with this is it won't fit with the built in Trickle filter... so we will need to buy a new canister filter too... proberbly get the Eheim 2028 so we can use it with our next tank..