Advice welcome and needed

[coolbucks]

Hi All,

I am curious to know whether anyone using halogen bulb(Like 70 or 150watt,white light) for planted tank before?

Whether Mh 70w is enough for 6 ft tank is going for low maintain planted tank? eg; using 2 70 Mh that bulb is 4500k lum and addition of PL lighting...


thank you.

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Halogen lighting is normally warm in colour and temperature (hot), hence not suitable for planted lighting imho.

[benny]

Agreed with what Terence has said. In our climate, halegon bulbs are really hot and the color spectrum is not right.

Having said that, Tropica's aquacube uses halegon bulbs.

For a 6 ft tank, I think 2 X MH light is not enough unless you have 2 X 250W bulb hanging high enough to give adequate spread to the entire tank. Otherwise, 2 X 70W bulb, supplemented by PL (which you will have trouble trying to position effectively) will not give you enough light across the entire length of the tank.

Cheers,