Help to change tank to planted one

Great thanks ill go there.

Thanks for all the info so far guy's.

 

Ok now Lighting?

I've got a 10 000k 15w whit elight would that be OKay?

 

How many ? - The wattage seems a little low.

 

Only 1 how many do I need?

 

You should have around 0.5 to 0.8 watts per litre for planted tanks. So, for your 100 litres, somewhere around 50 to 80 watts in total

 

Ok that I can do how much lumens do i need as I see the differ?

 

Not as simple as a lumen rating. You need to work out LSI and/or PAR and this basically means how much light is actually reaching the bottom of your tank.

To give you a very general idea: a 28 watt T5 gives out 2700 lumens. So for your setup, you should be aiming around 5500 lumens or so.

Please note this is different for different types of lighting systems: IE: 400w Metal Halide pumps out 40000 lumens and a 20 w power compact does 1200 lumens....as you can see they are not same, even if they were both at the same wattage.

 

Thanks Warr7207

• Ok you see my problem is space I cant go for long tubes so Im thinking of getting a CLF 120 watt globe with 6500 kelvin and 6000 lumens

 

That sounds like it could work

 

Good slowly im getting there:bigsmile:

 

me too :cheers: