Hagen Aqua Glo vs Power Glo

[yhbae]

I'm looking to buy one of the two, but haven't tried Power Glo before. How are they different?

Looking at their sites, they have the spectrum chart. It appears that Power Glo produces more light overall, but also produces more green and yellow lights, and less of red.

This will be going into my mbuna tank as the previous combo of actinic and regular lamps caused algae bloom... Now that the water is clear again after three straight weeks of daily water change, I don't want to go through that experience again!

This tank contains Yellow Lab and P Acei which are yellow and blue.

Appreciate some feedback..

 

[yhbae]

To help the discussion, here are the light spectrum diagrams:

Aqua Glo:

Power Glo:

What would be better?

 

[clutterydrawer]

Bear in mind that I don't know anything about those particular fish, but here is a quote from a book that is on my desk:

"experiments carried out by leading authoroites prove that fishes do better under fluorescent lighting when the colour tends towards the reds and yellows. under blue light some fish stop breeding. blue light also adversely affects fish eggs."

 

[Silly me]

hey yhbae..

do you have any plant in there???

if not stick to normal cool white. might not look to white at first but work wonders.. also you could try,tri phosfor light you get at clothing stores.. the make the colour look almost 100% the same as sunlight and lacks the UV.

 

[yhbae]

Bear in mind that I don't know anything about those particular fish, but here is a quote from a book that is on my desk:

"experiments carried out by leading authoroites prove that fishes do better under fluorescent lighting when the colour tends towards the reds and yellows. under blue light some fish stop breeding. blue light also adversely affects fish eggs."

Hmm that is an interesting story... These bulbs do create both blue and yellow/red, so wouldn't that be still ok?

 

[yhbae]

hey yhbae..

do you have any plant in there???

if not stick to normal cool white. might not look to white at first but work wonders.. also you could try,tri phosfor light you get at clothing stores.. the make the colour look almost 100% the same as sunlight and lacks the UV.

I do have plants (only java ferns) but the priority is to get fishes to look nice. I tried various different temperature rated bulbs from the hardware store and they all pretty much looked awful - not as nice as the combo of actinic and another white bulb together.

I do want to have the tank filled with java ferns however, so I do prefer if the bulb is appropriate for plants as well. Hmm.... what colors do plants need? I guess not green, so is it more blue or yellow/red?

 

[clutterydrawer]

Hmm that is an interesting story... These bulbs do create both blue and yellow/red, so wouldn't that be still ok?

I don't know much about lighting but I assume either would be ok - even though the power glo has more green it also has more yellow, after all.

 

[Link]

I'd go for a standard aquarium tube like an Interpet Beauty or a Gro-lux. They enhance the colours of the fish. Because you dont have light loving plants a tube that is not as bright as a Powerglo or a Triton would be the best.

 

[yhbae]

Is Glo Lux by Penn Plax? If that is the case, that is their version of Hagen's Aqua Glo - very similar light spectrum I think...