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Old 30-06-2003, 07:20 AM
Poe Lim
 
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Default if you don't have plants....

Yes. I was going to say that you need to make sure you have adequate
ventilation, as the balast is at the bulb, rather than remote for most
fluoro tubes, but then your current bulbs would be plenty hot anyway, so
there should be decent built in ventilation.

Cheers,
Poe

"Cammie" wrote in message
...
They sell those screw in compact fluorescent ones at my work, they just

got
them in. Do you think it's beneficial both energy and tank wise?

Can't you change to one of the screw-in compact fluro bulbs? That way

you
can save some power. That's probably why you don't get algae with

plants;
I
suspect everyone thought you have 4W/g of fluorescent light! Why don't

you
just keep to Cabomba, but cut them off when they get too tall, and

replant
the top bits, discarding the lower bits. Certainly things like Java fern
(they seem to do well in any tank, in my low light w/o CO2, and with my
higher light with CO2) will do well in your tank.