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In the spirit of being environmentally friendly (and partly because my parents are paying the electricity and i feel guilty running hundreds of watts of lighting) i am wondering how plants grow under regular energy saving bulbs.
I saw cool white lights that emit 100W of light but only require 11W, and warm white bulbs which have similar output. So i am wondering if plants will do well under this because i can light both my tanks much more strongly, while the energy savers total wattage doesnt even add up to 1 of the ballasts that are running my flourescent lights.
Will the colour of the lighting mean that the plants wont grow well. Somebody told me that if you combine warm and cool flourescent lighting you get amazing growth but im not sure. I dont want to spend money buying fittings and globes if im not sure that i will get lots of growth, as well as a nice bright tank, i dont want it to have an orange tint from the warm whites.
I saw cool white lights that emit 100W of light but only require 11W, and warm white bulbs which have similar output. So i am wondering if plants will do well under this because i can light both my tanks much more strongly, while the energy savers total wattage doesnt even add up to 1 of the ballasts that are running my flourescent lights.
Will the colour of the lighting mean that the plants wont grow well. Somebody told me that if you combine warm and cool flourescent lighting you get amazing growth but im not sure. I dont want to spend money buying fittings and globes if im not sure that i will get lots of growth, as well as a nice bright tank, i dont want it to have an orange tint from the warm whites.