Hi All,
I’ve been having BBA problems for a few months now and one thing I’ve wanted to do (this is not a BBA thread so I won’t list the other measures) is reduce light intensity. The tank is a Juwel Lido 200 LED. These Multilux lights seem bright, too bright to me but I am ignorant, however, they are not adjustable.
Juwel give Lumen as 3220 and Kelvin figures (6500 and 9000 for the two LED strips) but not par.
So today I had a small flash of inspiration and rotated the tubes 180 degrees. The tank is now much more to my liking although feeding time is a bit dazzling!
I’ll post a pic but wonder if this will now not be enough light for the common aquarium plants? Echinodorous, Vallis, Crypts...How much do they need in a low tech set up? In the old days it was common to have hoods with a couple of dim light bulbs. I am dosing TNC complete at EI levels and there is s bay window 3 ft away from the tank. Lights are on 6 or 7 hours a day. I’d estimate by eye light levels at the bottom of the tank are down bu 60%.
Thanks for your thoughts. Suppose I just need to suck it and see though?
Cheers
I’ve been having BBA problems for a few months now and one thing I’ve wanted to do (this is not a BBA thread so I won’t list the other measures) is reduce light intensity. The tank is a Juwel Lido 200 LED. These Multilux lights seem bright, too bright to me but I am ignorant, however, they are not adjustable.
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Juwel give Lumen as 3220 and Kelvin figures (6500 and 9000 for the two LED strips) but not par.
So today I had a small flash of inspiration and rotated the tubes 180 degrees. The tank is now much more to my liking although feeding time is a bit dazzling!
I’ll post a pic but wonder if this will now not be enough light for the common aquarium plants? Echinodorous, Vallis, Crypts...How much do they need in a low tech set up? In the old days it was common to have hoods with a couple of dim light bulbs. I am dosing TNC complete at EI levels and there is s bay window 3 ft away from the tank. Lights are on 6 or 7 hours a day. I’d estimate by eye light levels at the bottom of the tank are down bu 60%.
Thanks for your thoughts. Suppose I just need to suck it and see though?
Cheers
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