phoenix44

+1 for the second post. lol. Keep your spray bar toward the top of one end of the tank. I dont use a spray bar as it limits the power of the filter (though negligibly). | In................................Out | | ^ ................................||... | | || ............................... V....| | | | Water | | | | Fish | | | | | | | | sand | | _______sand________________ |

ah. i c that makes sense i suppose. the media from the filter will be more helpful in cycling the new tank. (assuming it was runnin on the old tank) but i think i read that you have already done this.

nice. just one question though. are you going to fill the tank up to the max? cause ive seen many tanks where the water level was an inch below the supports and i never understood why.

thats because ricca is a VEry high maintenance plant. you have to crop the areas under it, cause they go brown because the leaves on top get the light. ive seeen it in a tank with metal halides and it looked mint.

oh

I knew i missed something in physics class. maybe i didnt miss it.. more ignored it, :lol:

alan you should make a sticky post with K ratings and the colours, and what that means for the aquarium 18000 k looks pinky-purple.

oh.. the life glo is 6700K. the 10000K tube comes as stock standard in the juwel aquariums... its the blinding white one i think.

awesome, thanks man... reason i asked is cause i used to run the same K rating tubes in the 2ft size, and a 15000K and actinic blue and the plants boomed! But I was hoping to replace the whole lot with just the 4ft light hood. I'll see how it goes for a few weeks, and then if growth has slowed down - ill add a 10000K tube.

sure thing. but how can you ^-2 it? square second?

hahahaha... ok then, the fingers shall do the walking. > $15 is v. cheap!

have a website?

I see. I couldnt find 4ft (t5 HO) 10000K tubes, do you know where I can get one from?

use the iso mode on your camera and darken the room. it makes for a great effect on my camera.

:lol: ok then. :bounce: Thanks for the answer! I shall try them out and report back. mark - i know i can grow corals with them, but what i want to grow is my tiger lotus

is that yes for 18000K is good for plants, or 6500 - 10000K is better for plants, or yes to both?

hello everyone! :lol: I got 2 new t5 HO's today rated at 54 watts each, 18000K. ive had t5's on the tank before, but this is a 4ft light instead of the 2ft i was using in the past. I know what the kelvin ratings are etc etc, as far as wavelengths are concerned; but what I DO NOT know is what this means for me. are these tubes suitable for growing plants? (i suppose the pants that need lower light will be unhappy) Ive heard that 6500k - 10,000K is perhaps more suited for the propagation of aquatic plants... is this true?

very fast 9.8 ms^-1 on average .... fast eh? ! :lol:

ha ha cute.

if the poos are green, it may be an indication of bile... (liver secretion..especially if it is like an algae green)... there is also a possibility that speedy has a gall bladder problem. potentially sources to explore?

everything looks exactly the same! so it must be a leopard frog plec? L134? but on the main fish ID site, the L134 looks different =( http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/im ... ge_id=8165 that fish is listed as a L134 - but looks more like a butterfly plec - which ive also got. so now im even more confused. the species gets darker with age apparently. perhaps this is the case?

yeh! saw that.. the colours are inverted though. v nice fish, i like it.

:bounce: Welcome! :bounce:

from one cory? :lol: must have been a BIG cory!