Thread: Lights for a planted tank
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Old 10-04-2003, 11:44 PM
GregMa
 
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Default Lights for a planted tank
In article ,
tose says...
Actually I don't plan on doing injection. At least not at the start.

Do not go over 3 wpg without CO2 injection. In fact, staying close to 2 wpg
would be better. Just leave some of your lights off until you can get a CO2
system set up. (Compressed would be best for a tank as large as 75 gallons.)

Too much light without CO2 injection will be algae hell. Worse, it can cause
pH swings extreme enough to kill your fish.


Thanks for the warning! I'll have to rethink and maybe increase my
timetable to adding CO2.

Thanks!
Greg
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