Low Light Options for Planted Tanks – Planted Aquarium Lighting Guide – Part 5

In this Low Light Options for Planted Tanks video in the planted aquarium lighting guide we go over some popular options for low tech planted tanks.

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[boniboni]

Thank you this was immensely useful, I’m all about the low tech, I have two tanks (6 & 8g) that have plants and no light because they are in a window and have some direct sunlight for a few hours, but I recently got a 28g and I has no direct sunlight at all, planing just to get a clam light fixture and a fluorescent bulb on it and see if my plants are fine with it! Thank you so much!

[leeleemendoza]

thank you for all the great info! I really appreciate it

[fishrrelaxing]

I love when my sub channels post early morning weekend videos.. gets my day started the right way!

On the heat of the le floodlights.. the huge heat sink on the back of the light does very well at absorbing the heat and keeps the front facing portion cool to the touch allowing you to sit it directly on top of your glass. You can even sit it on the plastic/glass combo hoods wo melting the plastic. Ithe hear sing doesn’t get so hot that you can’t take it off and sit it on something else while maintaining your tank but it is just slightly hotter then you want to hold in your hand. It won’t burn you but does get pretty warm. I did enjoy you following up on my take on the coloring of the light not being very present although I will admit it’s starting to grow on me a little. It’s really not that far off from appearance then a fluval 2.0 but for some reason it does seem a lot less pleasing in coloring. I’m really wish they would just pop a couple blues in the chip. I’m currently running the le with a cheap led light set on the moonlight setting. The combo really makes sharpens up the appearance of the tank. I run the le in the back with the moon lighting led in the front since the blues always make the colors in the fish pop. I thinking I might actually post a video on it cause when it comes to cheap lighting I think this is a great way to go. I paid $23 for a 50w lepower and the regular tank led is like a $8 light on Amazon. Around $30 in total cost and I’m getting deep penetration in my corner hex. It’s non co2 but I am dosing flourish, excel and occasionally potassium when I can find it. I don’t know why the single biggest fertilizer that doesn’t come from tap water or most planted substrates is so hard to find! It should be the minimum that anyone uses. I can find iron all day which is worthless to me using a laterite based substrate and tap water.

Quick tip to those who think they need to dose iron in their planted tanks.. you don’t. There is plenty in every basic fertilizer mix (like flourish) you just have to stop trying to dose right after a water change.. your water conditioner removes heavy metals from your tap! Don’t dose till 24-36h after water changes and you can stop buying iron supplements and just use basic fertilizers. I know many who do a water change then fertilize right after.. you may as well be pouring the fertilizer down the sink drain.

[HeatherNielsenScarletAquatics]

Hi! Great info on options for low light!

[madfishdiva]

Great information on low light options.

[DamianBloodstone]

Great vid. I have only used incandescent grow bulbs and T-5 fixtures. I'm to old school but it was nearly twenty years ago too and T-5s were the advanced thing then.

[leifmanuel]

very informative, just earned a subs. keep it up !

[adambamf]

i got the beams work and it does a great job on my 30 liter

[JeffitosMovieBlog]

Stopping by to say hi. Saw your channel pulled up on Nimmin Live. Keep up the great work!

[adambamf]

I have the 450-550 beamswork on my 30 liter nano and it works very well

[sandshorties]

I'm running two Beamswork fullspec lights on my 60gal and they seem to be doing well. 22" down to my s. Repens and they have new growth! I thought I'd need expensive lights with my water depth but that was not the case. Keep up the good work Chung👍

[AngelosFishTanks]

Awesome Chung great to see you break it down like that..I used cfl’s for a while 😊. I’m slowly converting to leds. I’m not sure if your familiar with Fishman? He builds custom leds out of higher end strip lighting and they grow plants really nicely. He also does a saltwater version and can actually grow corals.

[Cheddar]

I have a 30cm cube aquarium and i have bought 2 nicrew 6w lights. Where they take up so much space on the tank, I can't have a HOB filter, but at least I have well dispersed light going through the aquarium getting everywhere letting my carpeting plants grow really well :) One of them was £16 and other was £14 with damaged packaging, no difference in them.

[WhatIsMisophonia]

I'm planning an aquarium/riparium with large low-light plants rooting at the top, and I may make my own pendant lights with foil on the inside and daylight leds. Btw, from what I've been able to learn so far, low-light plants don't really seem to care as much about color spectrum as the high-light plants do, just so long as you're giving them enough light to survive.

[cheenaxe]

The water box is awesome.. Please make more videos hope you are doing well! We all miss you! Please just say hi if you alrite!

[TheWaterBox]

Do you use any of these options or have used? Any other low light option you use I haven't mentioned? Leave a comment and let us know.

[libideitch]

Hi, thanks for all the information!
What about full spectrum light bulb for 4-5 gallon planted tank, with clip/stand light?
And what power will be enough?

[ACAquatics]

Great information first of all. I use Beamswork DA models. They only have the white and blue LEDs but they're 6500k. They have 5 rows of LEDs versus the 3 rows of the F-spec models as well. I also use the Current USA Satellite Plus which is not the cheapest and not the high end model which is the Plus Pro I believe. I'm just curious if I should still be considering these fixtures low light or if they are in fact medium light. That would be great to know and open up a lot more plants for me to be able to grow in my tanks.

[anthonyragan]

I love Finnex Stingrays. Never thought about adding 1 or 2 more. Would that push a tank into the medium-high range?

[BVishnuprasanthM]

I used two 14 w cfl bulbs, got better results my plants are hygrophila polysperma, bacomba crypt, bacopa, vallisneria