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Old 23-04-2015, 03:27 PM   #21
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I'm really curious... Is there such a thing as too much light for plants? Factoring away algae issues and fert requirements. Will plants be adversely affected when light is "too strong" ?
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Old 23-04-2015, 04:33 PM   #22
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I'm really curious... Is there such a thing as too much light for plants? Factoring away algae issues and fert requirements. Will plants be adversely affected when light is "too strong" ?
There are indeed a possibilty of having too much light for your plants, some plants need low light and some need high light.. depends on what plants you keep...
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Old 23-04-2015, 04:56 PM   #23
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Okay. Let's level the comparisons by saying now they are all light-demanding plants....

Will they be affected adversely if there's too intense lighting?
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Old 23-04-2015, 04:59 PM   #24
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intense light must accompanied with enough fertilzer for the plants to make food then will grow nicer...

Eg: if you grow glosso, the one with high light, the glosso will creep and will not grow tall, if light is not enough, you might notice that glosso will grow taller and taller.

on the other hand, if you grow nana type of plant, high light might kill the plant or algea will grow on the leaves where low light, the plant will grow well...
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Old 23-04-2015, 05:17 PM   #25
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Okay. Thanks Fireblade!

Psst. Sorry to side track a little on your thread, TS!
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Old 23-04-2015, 06:23 PM   #26
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Okay. Let's level the comparisons by saying now they are all light-demanding plants....

Will they be affected adversely if there's too intense lighting?
think the height of the tank also make a diff bah
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Old 21-05-2015, 12:13 PM   #27
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I am having a 2ft high tank, will it be wise to use LED lighting and what would you guys recommend.
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Old 08-06-2015, 10:58 PM   #28
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Any idea how much is a 50W LED?
Ard US$20, driver with led chip only. shipping not included fm website

Didn't buy to try, don't have used 4ft light housing.
Now not much plants left liao.

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I am having a 2ft high tank, will it be wise to use LED lighting and what would you guys recommend.
Looking at chong99 n burntrubber tanks, seem ok.
wondering wat led chong is using. 7020? 8520?
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Old 08-07-2016, 02:50 AM   #29
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Bought this:-




Not very hot, tink can transfer led chip n driver to old aq light casing.

Don't have used 4ft light housing n plants currently, so don't know good enough for 2ft height tanks or not
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Old 19-07-2016, 03:42 PM   #30
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just use this with the casing... looks cool...
I am using that for my 1 feet cube
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