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Hi all
we are cycling our new 28 g bowfront with 7 leopard Danios, 2 mosquito fish and 6 cherry shrimp.
I bought a driftwood planted with an anubias that is doing well. I also bought some random plants at Petsmart before I had done much reading. These are a Ludwigia, some anacharis and a cabomba. We also just added a bunch of foxtail as some floating cover for the fish.
We just upgraded the regular fluorescent light that came with the tank to a pair of T5 lights with a daylight spectrum (one is white and one is pink) and now have a total of 28 W. This little hood cost us $50 whereas the compact fluorescent we asked about was $200. So we've jumped up to 1w/g which still puts us at low light. I could put the original light back on and run both as the new light is very small and compact.
What should I do with the plants. The ludwigia has lost it's reddish leaves at the top and it is starting to look more yellowy. The cabomba seems ok so far.
We've only had the new light on for a couple of days so I guess the first thing is to wait and see if things pick up. Otherwise do I yank these out and toss them and get more low light plants?
Maureen
we are cycling our new 28 g bowfront with 7 leopard Danios, 2 mosquito fish and 6 cherry shrimp.
I bought a driftwood planted with an anubias that is doing well. I also bought some random plants at Petsmart before I had done much reading. These are a Ludwigia, some anacharis and a cabomba. We also just added a bunch of foxtail as some floating cover for the fish.
We just upgraded the regular fluorescent light that came with the tank to a pair of T5 lights with a daylight spectrum (one is white and one is pink) and now have a total of 28 W. This little hood cost us $50 whereas the compact fluorescent we asked about was $200. So we've jumped up to 1w/g which still puts us at low light. I could put the original light back on and run both as the new light is very small and compact.
What should I do with the plants. The ludwigia has lost it's reddish leaves at the top and it is starting to look more yellowy. The cabomba seems ok so far.
We've only had the new light on for a couple of days so I guess the first thing is to wait and see if things pick up. Otherwise do I yank these out and toss them and get more low light plants?
Maureen