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Jhung515 · 02-14-2011, 09:53 AM

First post, new to plants, have kept aquariums off and on most of my life.

Now that that't out of the way, I recently purchased a Fluval Chi 5g "fountain aquarium" w/ built in filter and 11 led lights. I wanted to try my luck at growing some plants in this tank but after doing a little research I found out the built in lights wouldn't be sufficient to grow much. So I bought LED desk lamp in hopes that it would add enough extra light to grow a few plants. Possibly some java fern or corkscrew vallisneria, I would like to cover the bottom in hemianthus callitrichoides but I read that it takes more lighting. The box the lamp came in doesn't give kelvin rating just says 2.4w equivalent to a 13w cfl bulb. Is there any way I can find how much k the led bulb has or if it will work for plants?

02-14-2011, 09:53 AM	#1 (permalink)
Jhung515 Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Iowa Posts: 5 iTrader Ratings: 0 Plant Points:	Fluval Chi lighting help First post, new to plants, have kept aquariums off and on most of my life. Now that that't out of the way, I recently purchased a Fluval Chi 5g "fountain aquarium" w/ built in filter and 11 led lights. I wanted to try my luck at growing some plants in this tank but after doing a little research I found out the built in lights wouldn't be sufficient to grow much. So I bought LED desk lamp in hopes that it would add enough extra light to grow a few plants. Possibly some java fern or corkscrew vallisneria, I would like to cover the bottom in hemianthus callitrichoides but I read that it takes more lighting. The box the lamp came in doesn't give kelvin rating just says 2.4w equivalent to a 13w cfl bulb. Is there any way I can find how much k the led bulb has or if it will work for plants? Last edited by Jhung515; 02-14-2011 at 11:09 AM..