Blue Planet Classic 70 lighting

[sophieydg]

I just bought a Blue Planet Classic 70 tank. However the light is only 11w. Has anyone replaced and upgraded the lighting in this tank? If so what did you use?

Thanks in advance

[alexyay]

The last time I asked I was told there was nothing I could do (and boy are their tubes expensive to replace!) :c My only other thoughts would be to place something like LED strip lighting in the hood, or see what you can do to remove the hood and change whatever is contained in the lighting section, but that would involve a fair amount of DIY (and skills that I don't have).

However, with my 11W I've been able to grow most plants, assuming they are not very high light (eg. red plants). My tank currently contains riccia moss, and amazon sword, dwarf baby tears, dwarf hairgrass, h polysperma, cabomba (used to grow ambulia like a weed until I tore it all out), anubias (a light green kind, not sure of its name), java fern (narrow and broad leaf) & two other hygro species (unsure of their names though). I also had h. polysperma "sunset" growing but it was a slow grower. I've also had this light running for about 2 years @ around 7/8 hours a day, its not quite as strong as it was when I first got it but it's too expensive to replace lol