New guy here from Miamisburg. I am switching over from a reef tank to freshwater planted aquarium and have a few questions about light and CO2.
Tank is a 58 gal. Oceanic. Have T5 lights (ATI SunPro lamps). Will three tubes be enough or would four tubes be better? I can do either by re-wiring my ice cap ballast. Also where do most of you get your CO2 tanks filled at in Dayton?
Welcome to the forum. I am also in Miamisburg and there are a cpl others that are not far away. I hope you find the site as helpful as I have. Feel free to drop me a line. I'm always willing to help out.
Since you can rewire your ballast, why not start with 3 lamps. I would think that would be plenty. You can always add another one later if needed.
Out of curiosity, what Kelvin temp are your lamps? You've probably done the reading already but the Actinics used on reefs aren't much good on a planted tank.
I get my CO2 from Weiler Welding on Main Street in Moraine. It is a very short distance from 741 (Springboro Pike).
Thanks for welcome.
Lights are 6000K full spectrum. I did have four tubes,three full spectrum,one actinic. These T5 have not been in use very long only have about a month on them when they were on reef tank. Before that I had four URI VHO's. I thought three would be fine for now and I just happend to have three.....
You are more than welcome to attend the meeting! Tom Barr is going to be at the meeting also. He does some salt water stuff too so he may have some suggestions for you also. I'm not sure if any other members have done the salt thing but maybe someone will post about it...
If you need directions or info about the meeting, give me a PM!
Don't forget about the rest of this site either!!! There is a lot of good info out there for you...
On both of my 75 gallon planted tanks I have 2 x 54W 6500K T5 bulbs and get great results. Here is a pic from 2 months ago.
Boy does it look different now! The Amazon Sword on the right has bushed out half way across the tank and the Java Moss clump is bigger than a basketball. I'll try to take a new pic soon.
Keep us updated as to the progress and post some pics once you get it set up. With the exception of Erik, none of us are very good at aquascaping so we won't critique the layout very hard
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