Is this considered high lighting?

[Bridgo]

 

[Andy Thurston]

it might help if you tell us what they are

 

[Bridgo]

Oh yeah, that might help. Sorry.

The light at the back is a Finnex planted+, I imported this from the USA along with the Finnex Ray 2 that's at the front as they had very positive reviews.

The 3 spotlights in the middle are Arcadia Eco-aqua white led's.

Cheers.

 

[dougstar]

holly cow thats a lot of light!
i have the finnex but only a strip not a double and i have growth with just that. get your discus sunglasses!

 

[Bridgo]

I guess it is considered high lighting then 😱.

LED's vary so much in terms of output which makes it hard to tell. I added the spotlights because I thought the Finnex would struggle to punch light through to the bottom of my 60cm deep tank.

Discus seem fine but sunglasses would look cool 😎

 

[Bridgo]

It also explains why my tank looks like a Jacuzzi half way through my photo period.

 

[Andy Thurston]

if you haven't got algae dont worry.
thats megawatt lighting, you must be doing something right. it would be high light with just the arcadia units. good job

 

[Bridgo]

Thanks Big clown.

The reason I started this thread was because I was considering adding TMC grobeam's to this mix . Not going to do that now though.

I have a little GSA on the glass and on some older leaves but that's it. I have recently increased my phosphate dosing to see if that does the trick.

Believe me I have been through every type of algae in the last year. That was mostly down to poor CO2 though.

I have a long way to go but I'm getting there.

Cheers.

 

[Andy Thurston]

Any chance of a FTS?

 

[Bridgo]

FTS?

 

[Bridgo]

Front Tank Shot or blahblahblahblah This blahblahblahblah? 😵

 

[Bridgo]

If it is front tank shot (my guess) then I'm trying to have 2 fronts. I see my tank mostly from the side as the couch is next to my tank so I want it to look good from that angle so I'm working on a raising background that looks something like this:

but when you walk into the room you see the tank from the front which looks like:

I have some fine tuning to do and it's got to growing in to do etc but I think I can eventually pull it off.

Apologies for the bad camera shots.

 

[Andy Thurston]

FTS full tank shot.
its better than my efforts

 

[Bridgo]

How do I see your efforts? (I'm new to this)

My tank looked like this at Christmas :

 

[Bridgo]

I originally put a lot of thought into the layout. I tried to place the wood using the rule of thirds (more of a nature style IMO) which is meant to be visually pleasing and then covered the whole thing in plants (more of a dutch style I think) .

Now I'm aiming to get the plants to match the rule of thirds and match my hard scape at the same time (in my own style) and see what I end up with .

Bridgo.