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    Color of PL light

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    Does the color of the PL light matter? How does a bluish one compare with the bright daylight one? For planted tank with high requirement for light (maybe like riccia), is the bluish one sufficient?

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    Get the bright daylight one. There's science underneath it, but the daylight one will be your best bet.

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    Bro, you can read the reasons in this thread.

    http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum...spectrum+light

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    Thanks for all the replies ... one BIG problem that I have is the most of the terminologies (NO3, KH, Kevin, etc) used here are too chim for me and I don't have the patience to read those lengthy detail writeup explaining a certain concept.

    What happened was I have 4 PL lamps (2 x 24W, 2 x 36W) and one of the 24W ones is bluish in color while the rest are daylight. I am concerned if this will affect the growth of my plants, esp those directly under the bluish tube. Shd I change the bluish tube to a daylight one? Is this necessary?

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    Quote Originally Posted by hwchoy
    no patience then LL any how hantam see how lor.
    ok lor, already hantam and revamp my tank so many times until wife complaining liao ... but then ... can someone answer my question first leh ... thank you.

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    Leave it alone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by |squee|
    Leave it alone.
    Thanks!

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    get those colour of around 6000-7000K

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    i guess for planted tanks, the bright white ones would be better

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    Quote Originally Posted by kemp
    i guess for planted tanks, the bright white ones would be better

    daylight white is 6500K but some people prefer 8000K which I personally find too bright and bluish when new.
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