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davemonkey · 07-01-2009, 10:06 PM

Trodi,

I think your fish load is okay, plants do a great job at cleaning water.

For the lights, are those the sprial flourescents? Does it say it replaces a 60 or 40 watt bulb and actually only uses 13 or whatever watts? If so, count only the actual wattage of the bulb, not the wattage that it says it replaces (for incandescent lights). In other words, although a 26 watt spiral energy saving bulb will put out the visual light of a 100 watt 'normal' light bulb, it's still just a 26 watt bulb and you should only count the 26 watts.

Otherwise, rock on!

-Dave

07-01-2009, 10:06 PM	#2 (permalink)
davemonkey Moderator Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Houston, TX, USA Posts: 2,743 iTrader Ratings: 20 iTrader Positive Rating: 100% Plant Points: 147000	Re: the switch Trodi, I think your fish load is okay, plants do a great job at cleaning water. For the lights, are those the sprial flourescents? Does it say it replaces a 60 or 40 watt bulb and actually only uses 13 or whatever watts? If so, count only the actual wattage of the bulb, not the wattage that it says it replaces (for incandescent lights). In other words, although a 26 watt spiral energy saving bulb will put out the visual light of a 100 watt 'normal' light bulb, it's still just a 26 watt bulb and you should only count the 26 watts. Otherwise, rock on! -Dave