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chvvkumar IAH New Member
Joined: Aug 25, 2007 Posts: 30 Location: Visakhapatnam Status: Offline
Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 10:50 pm Post subject: Is my lighting low, medium or high?
My tank is a 15g (2ft*1ft*1ft) with 1.5" sand substrate.
The flora are Amazon Swords and Cabomba (Fanwort) with DIY CO2 and root tabs for the swords.
Now, I just got a new Philips 36W PL-L (6500k 2900 lumens @ 78m/W).
Does my lighting fall into low or medium?
According to the W/G method, it has 2.4 W/G and according to Lumen/sq.in rule (from here: http://fotohobbist.com/blog/lighting-for-planted-aquariums-watts-per-gallon-lsi-lumen-lux-what/ ) it is 10 lumens/sq.inch.
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jabba Committed Member of IAH
Joined: Oct 09, 2011 Posts: 1854 Location: hebbal,banglore Status: Offline
Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 11:51 pm Post subject: Re: Is my lighting low, medium or high?
medium
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chvvkumar IAH New Member
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 12:48 am Post subject: Re: Is my lighting low, medium or high?
jabba wrote (View Post ):
medium
Hey! Thanks for replying!
May I know by which measure is it medium? For future reference.
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mudjawd Regular Poster on IAH
Joined: Sep 14, 2008 Posts: 1228 Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka Status: Offline
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:09 am Post subject: Re: Is my lighting low, medium or high?
tell me that do you have a reflector. if yes then what kind of reflector do you have.
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jabba Committed Member of IAH
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 3:38 am Post subject: Re: Is my lighting low, medium or high?
from my understanding 1-2w/g low,2-3 medium and 3+ high
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chvvkumar IAH New Member
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 6:58 am Post subject: Re: Is my lighting low, medium or high?
mudjawd wrote (View Post ):
tell me that do you have a reflector. if yes then what kind of reflector do you have.
Right now, I don't have a reflector. But, the hood is completely white inside and I'm planning to tin foil the inside surface of the hood and move the ballast to the outside of the hood.
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mudjawd Regular Poster on IAH
Joined: Sep 14, 2008 Posts: 1228 Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka Status: Offline
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:07 am Post subject: Re: Is my lighting low, medium or high?
in this case you have medium lighting. had it been no white paint it would fall into the low category
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