Proper Lighting For 10 Gallon?

[markah1]

Hi everybody.

I have a fairly newly setup 10 gallon tank that I want to add some live plants to. The hood of my tank says that the highest wattage allowed is 15 watts. Would I be able to find good fluorescent lighting that would be good enough for live plants with the maximum wattage being 15 watts?

Thanks!

 

[reignofcheese]

The standard bulb that comes with the tank is good enugh to create a low light setup with very easy, low light plants. Depending on what came with the unit you may want to upgrade the bulb to a nice 6700k plant oriented one.

My 20 gallon long tank has only 18 watts of standard light on it, and while they grow at an incredibly slow rate, I have live plants doing well under it.

 

[Steve H.]

I have a 10gl that I am preparing to plant. My hood also is to a maximum 15w.

If your hood is like mine, just a regular screw type bulb, and not a tube you can use a spiral fluorescent from Home Depot.

There are 2 choices of 60w 'day light'...these are 60w equivalents.
Actual watts are 13w 5750k, and the other is 14w 5000k.

I have them both, and not sure which one I am going to use yet.

If you want to see what the 14w 5000k looks like in the tank. I have a picture in my journal.

Noobs ltlb 10....in the journal section.