Winterlily
Fish Crazy
I've got three 5.5 gallon tanks in a row right next to each other (for male bettas). They are 16" long each, so all three together are 48" long. I didn't want to get strip lights for each, mostly because I could only get Aqueon/AGA ones that way, and they are bulky (depth-wise) and overwhelm the teensy little glass canopy. Plus, it works out far more expensive to do 3 individual strip lights than to just get one 48". So I ordered a Coralife T5 Aqualight, single bulb (comes with ColorMax I believe). (Only something like 2.25" deep.) Thing is, it's a 28w bulb. Going on 5.5 gallon tanks. Since it's going to be spread out over 3 tanks, does that mean each tank won't get 28w? Or doesn't it work like that? If it DOES mean each tank is getting 28w, is that way too much light? I don't have live plants in there now but will likely go back to a planted tank (my bettas are getting their fins ripped on the silk, believe it or not). What does a 48" 28w bulb stretched over three 5.5 gallon tanks (they are 12" high I think, if it matters) work out to be as far as wattage per gallon? Is it as simple and straight-forward as 28 divided by 5.5? Or because 3 tanks are sharing it, that number then has to be divided further by 3?? 
Thanks!
Thanks!
