Is 220 Watt Enough?

[TrueNoob]

is 220 Watt enough?

 

[JasonB]

How big is your tank?

 

[TrueNoob]

How big is your tank?

55 gallon usa

 

[DarkSeraph]

That's 4 WPG. That should be more than enough

 

[Themuleous]

Yeh plenty, but you'll definately need CO2 or it'll turn into an aglae farm overnight! You got CO2 at the moment?

 

[craynerd]

What lighting you using, T8, T5, MH and what Colour temp tubes you using?

just purely out of interest.

Chris

 

[anodized]

I have a similar setup to this (45G) with 4x65W compact flourescents (coralife 5700k)
as you can imagine i'm very pleased with it and now no longer need to turn on my regular room lights! LOL