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Glo Lighting...what Exactly Do I Have?

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Can anyone tell me what type of lighting system this is? I went onto the Hagen website, but since this is an odler model, I cant figure it out. Want to add plant7s to my tank, but not sure if this fixture, or the bulbs it came with, are right or wrong. I lost 2 anubias in about 2 months. I've had better luck with an incandecent bulb in older tanks. Lol. Looking into CO2 as well, but have never attempted that either. Any help would be great. Thanks in advance.

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Well, heck. Tooks some photos with my phone, and apparently all are too large to upload. Bummer.
 
I'm sorry I can't help you with your question but for the pictures you might want to try uploading them to a photo sharing website such as photobucket and linking them here. :)
 
A photo of the fixture is unlikely to give us much to go on.  Can you tell us the text that is printed at one end of the tube?  If you have two tubes, check both in case they are different.
 
I know the Hagen "Glo" series reasonably well, as I have tried most of them and use the Life-Glo on my single-tube tanks.  They are available in T8 and the T5 too, so you need to know which you have to get replacement tubes since they are not interchangeable.
 
Byron.
 
do you ahev tannins what is the temp of your tnak i take it the anubais is being strapped to rock or wood and not planted  
 
That is T5 clearly, and the HO means High Output so presumably the tubes in there are such.  Now that we know this, I would suspect the Anubias problem was too much light.  Anubias is a shade plant, and when grown under direct lighting and especially when as intense as here, it often does not fare well.  Sometimes brush algae attacks it and fairly quickly suffocates each leaf.  But other issues can occur too, due to the light being greater than what the plant requires.  I suppose one could say it sort of just burns out.
 
Knowing the fixture now, if you remove the tubes there is bound to be something written at one end.  But that aside, these tubes need replacing regularly as they weaken with use.  I use T8 myself and find they last from 12 to 18 months (the "Glo" ones).  T5 I did try once for a week, but took it back as it was way too much light; I was expecting my poor fish to be asking for sunglasses. 
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 I believe I have read that they too need similar replacement.
 
As for the tubes themselves, one I would suggest should be a Life-Glo.  For the second, you can mix if you like, or stay with another LG.
 
You mentioned looking into CO2, and with this much light you could have diffused CO2.  Before deciding on this, decide what sort of planted tank you want.  I don't know your level of knowledge/experience, so to be very general you can have low-tech with low and moderate light requiring plants [some floating plants would reduce the brightness of this T5 HO, or perhaps you can remove a tube and use one?] for which CO2 would be un-necessary, up to high-tech using CO2 and higher-light requiring plants.
 
Byron.
 
I have Hagan Glo light, brilliant lights!
 
The T5HO 39W tubes are 3ft tubes, i run 4 of them over my 3ft planted tank, I have 2 Power glo tubes and 2 Life glo tubes. You will have no probs growing plants, but you need to get rid of the blue looking tube, replace it with a Life glo.
 
You can grow anubias under high light and low light (even just room ambient light), so if it died its not from a lighting issue
 
I use standard daylight T5's in my fittings. Far cheaper than the aquarium alternatives.
 
How much light you should have depends on a whole lot of things, including the depth of your tank, but a couple of T5s is a lot of light and could well be pushing you down the high tech route. If you want to go with CO2 and fertiliser regimes then that's all good, and you may get away with anubius in those circumstances (I'm growing some in a high tech tank directly under some T5's and it's growing well, but it's a balance thing mainly, it does do well with little effort in low light.
 
Otherwise you have simple options like removing one bulb, which would cut your light for free.
 
I've kept tanks for about 20 years. Just never attempted a planted tank. Placed a few here and there with success in the past. The anubias were in my substrate, and I was dosing with Flourish Excel. They basically melted away. Lol. So now, i have a mass of stems. Pulled them up into my holey rock, to see if they like it any better. I see one new leaf, although it's pretty thin. My amm. & nit. Levels are all great, but the water here in south Texas has a hefty pH. Looks like I'm gonna need to learn a few things here. Ha ha. Just trying to provide a much info as I can. I will try the suggestion of removing one bulb, as a start. Then try a replacement if there's no luck. Would CO2 be a good idea in any case?
 
CO2 is generally a good idea, so long as it's stable, unstable additions are worse than nothing for causing algae problems.
 
Anubius does indeed tend to melt if it's in the substrate, new leaves are a good sign, and they often look quite small to start with.
 
High pH, hard water is often good for plants, they can then take what they want from the water column by way of calcium and magnesium, without having to struggle to get it,
 
Thanks everyone for clarifying and taking time to respond. Seems like it was a pretty good idea to sign up with the forum after all. Lol.
 

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