Upgrading The Lighting On A Vision 180

[Gadgetman1805]

Hi there everyone just a quick question
am looking to up my lighting on the vision 180 for more plant growth (already inputting co2 hydor advanced system)

looking at adding arcadia 54w T5 unit as its only £19 deliverd! (of course have to buy the tubes separately)

but my question is, this gonna be too much light going into the tank

for example original X2 T8 24W plus X 2 T5 54W or X2 T5 39W

be grateful if someone could point me in the right direction as to whether its worth doiong this thanks

 

[samh12]

Hi there everyone just a quick question
am looking to up my lighting on the vision 180 for more plant growth (already inputting co2 hydor advanced system)

looking at adding arcadia 54w T5 unit as its only £19 deliverd! (of course have to buy the tubes separately)

but my question is, this gonna be too much light going into the tank

for example original X2 T8 24W plus X 2 T5 54W or X2 T5 39W

be grateful if someone could point me in the right direction as to whether its worth doiong this thanks

Hi
I have a vision 180 and i have the arcadia 39W T5 unit, i had to cut a little bit of the plastic cover off to make the front one fit. Been running for 3 or 4 years now with a co2 system and the plants love it.
Hope this helps
Sam

 

[SexyFishKeeper]

I've just upgraded my lights on my Vision 180 to a 90cm 4x39W Arcadia Luminaire. At the minute I'm only running two of the tubes at the minute.

If you get the 54w size then there's going to be an overlap between the lighting and the aquarium. At least with the 90cm version it'll fit a dream. I saw a tank with an overlap at the weekend, it looked ok but wouldn't be my preference. Plus you'd be wasting some of the light.

Just be careful, I stepped up from the 2x 35w T5s that came with my Vision and it caused an algae outbreak as the Plant Pro tubes seemed to cause a growth spurt of my plants. Even when I doubled my dosing.

 

[julia298]

Hi there everyone just a quick question
am looking to up my lighting on the vision 180 for more plant growth (already inputting co2 hydor advanced system)

looking at adding arcadia 54w T5 unit as its only £19 deliverd! (of course have to buy the tubes separately)

but my question is, this gonna be too much light going into the tank

for example original X2 T8 24W plus X 2 T5 54W or X2 T5 39W

be grateful if someone could point me in the right direction as to whether its worth doiong this thanks

I upgraded to 2 better T8 tubes, 1 Arcadia Oringinal Tropical and 1 Arcadia Freshwater both 25W.
And I added 2x T5 Interpret HO lights (twin) at 55W each.

With this much lighting it was difficult to get the balance right at first with duration lights left on, CO2 & ferts. I had lots of outbreaks of staghorn algae until I found out on here that my CO2 needed to be much higher - its running about as high as I can have it wihtout upsetting the fish.
I am dosing ferts as in EI sticky. Plants grow very fast & weekly (at least) trimming etc needed.
And if I forget to dose ferts ( which I often do when im busy) its easy for algae to rear its ugly head again.

IMO more lighting you have the more difficult it is to keep everything right, ie easier for algae to pop up.
You'll need lots of fast growers in there.

If your tank is very heavily planted you should be ok.

Julia