Will algea grow like crazy in a low light planted tank with just eco-complete used, since it is full of nutrients.
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Ignore my other answer, sorry lolActually .. Eco complete is an inert substrate which means it holds no nutrients right out of the bag. It just absorbs nutrients very well.( from poop, root tabs, fertilizers) then gives it to the plants. To just answer your question .. Nope.You'll be fine.
1858012
Yes, but not for the reasons you think. The eco-complete will not technically grow your algae, but the low lighting will. Algae loves 2 things: Poor water quality (i.e. high phosphates/nitrates) and poor lighting. So you will probably have a bad algae problem later on due to your low lighting, so I would suggest investing in a nerite snail or rabbit snail, since they love algae and will leave plants alone. The eco-complete however does hold some nutrients, but not as much as it advertises - it would be like pouring a small amount of Seachem's "Trace Elements" into the tank.
1858013
Nothing grows in my tank because of low light, regardless of this great substrate. Low light doesn't grow plants. This substrate isn't magical. I've never had algae to begin with, though. If you have a problem with it currently, then you may still have that problem after changing your substrate. This wont "create" algae problems, but it wont solve them either.
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Don't go with the plant+... that's for planted tanks... makes the fish look a little worse... and doesn't give the corals the type of light they need. If your corals are low-light tolerant (mushroom anemones, etc.) or don't require any light whatsoever (such as sun polyps or gorgonians) you'll be fine. The light is so bright (for its size) you MIGHT even get away with large-poly stony corals and any other softies. If, however, your corals require relatively high amounts of light, this light might not be sufficient. Or you might need to put two of them in tandem.
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Absolutely. I have had the light on a 10 gallon with low-medium plants for a couple months now, and they are doing great. I recommend a glass lid, too, but whatever the lid, remember that the scum which accumulates on the glass/clear plastic under the light will block a significant amount of light from reaching the plants, so don't forget to clean it off every once in a while.
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I would say it would do a good job in a 45gal tall tank the light is very intense on my 29gal and i have a well planted aquarium. Medium to low level light. Plants will be sufficent probaly not a high light plant though
866491
Probably not. Plants need good light and this is not the one. Don't know of any that are better, these small tanks are probably better with artificial plants.
236324
Yes. I use this for a 46 gallon freshwater tank. The LED's emit less heat than a florescent, so there is low, almost no algee growth. It is not good if you want to keep live plants in the tank for the same reason algee does not grow. This single bright gives plenty of natural light, although I would like a little more night (blue) light. I added two small blue LED/bubble walls in back and it looks great at night!
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Depends how big the tank is its very bright I used to use it on my 5 gallon then when I upgraded to my 30 gallon I had to use 2 of them it also gave me a ton of coraline algae as long as your water quality is good you should grow some nice algae
24237
it's OK even without added CO2. turning the light off a few hours a day in the middle of the day would be helpful to keep algae in check.
2099280
Plant life prefers a certain wave length, but this will allow some forms of algae to grow. If you want coralline algae this should work as long as the tank is shallow.
1568183
Yes. It will do a great job. My 100 gal Mixed stony reef is flourishing under 2 units. They are dimmed down slightly at 14k.
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If you have high light plants all the way to the back you may need two lights. It puts out a bright light for the front half of the aquarium. Flourish excel is great stuff - it really reduced my algae problem. I also have a UV filter on my pump. Hope that helps.
813087
Depends on how you have the tank planted as well as the bioload. You could go with no bio filtering with enough plants. Sorry I can't give a more definite answer.
2013257
I know next to nothing about growing flora in the aquarium except some BS I've read in forums. I have planted a low growing and tall growing pair of plants in my 29 high tank with the appropriate sized model of this light. It is a medium populated community tank and I do not use CO2. I do dose daily with Flourish Excel. My plants appear to be doing well and some new sprouts have developed and are growing. I will take a picture and post it in the user pictures portion.
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I assume you could rig it up. I have a 40g heavily planted tank with no Co2 with good results on plant growth.
1610422
sure/ aeration will promote growth of the algae as sunlight does!more fish to eat it, if you over feed your fish the feed act as fertilizer to algae. put a screen over/ around rule to help strainer [leaves grass etc.] use recomened fuse in line of power supply
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Should be ok. As suggested, you may want some floating plants (like duckweed) to filter the light if it's too much.
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Medium low yes, medium high no. The Java Fern, Anubias, Java Moss should all thrive under LED lighting. If you had a bunch of Amazon Swords you'd have to use the Finnex models instead. Three out of four of their models put out a lot more light, Planted+, Ray2 and Monster Ray. It's about the same light as Finnex's outdated FugeRay line.