John S
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Sorry but its another lighting question? I want to change my lighting to something brighter (I'm aware of the pitfalls) but I've a limited budget and want to maintain the current hood. I've seen a couple of posts where people have done this (not this forum) but their efforts were not very errr.........elegant shall we say.
My current tank is 165 litres, 400mm deep and has 70W of T8's, the tank length is a bit of an odd one at 820mm. It's easy enough to remove the current T8 electronics and fit a new mounting plate for the new electronics. I'm already injecting Co2 and using EI ferts.
What I need is some suggestions on the lighting level. I have an 810mmx149mm area to mount the tubes. The best fit length wise would be the Juwel 35w tubes @742mm but 70W T5 over this tank seems a lot especially as there is no room to raise the tubes. The issue with say the 28W tubes is that they are only ~600mm so that leaves a gap and each end of the tank unless I offset them?
I was going to by the ballast and end caps etc and wire my own as I can't tell if the Arcadia controller supports the Juwel tubes?
My current tank is 165 litres, 400mm deep and has 70W of T8's, the tank length is a bit of an odd one at 820mm. It's easy enough to remove the current T8 electronics and fit a new mounting plate for the new electronics. I'm already injecting Co2 and using EI ferts.
What I need is some suggestions on the lighting level. I have an 810mmx149mm area to mount the tubes. The best fit length wise would be the Juwel 35w tubes @742mm but 70W T5 over this tank seems a lot especially as there is no room to raise the tubes. The issue with say the 28W tubes is that they are only ~600mm so that leaves a gap and each end of the tank unless I offset them?
I was going to by the ballast and end caps etc and wire my own as I can't tell if the Arcadia controller supports the Juwel tubes?
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