|| "RedForeman ©®" wrote in message
||| Plants love 6500k, doesn't matter the wattage... 5000k gets to be
||| more blue, which I like as do plants.. but 6500k is better IMO....
||
|| Huh? Higher color temperatures look more blue, lower color
|| temperatures look more red.
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|| I've seen many recommendations that planted tanks should be lit using
|| 5000-6000K. Apparently, higher color temperatures encourage algae.

I was wrong, 5000k is more yellowish where 6500k is more blueish... but in
my tank, my 6500k looks more yellow...
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/H...7/spectra.html - might help...
it proved me wrong...

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