on my tank. I got to thinking about it and my tank had not gotten new bulbs for awhile. This time I decided to research on it and I came away with three "sunlight" bulbs from Phillips and two daylight bulbs from Phillips. The sunlights are 5000k and the daylights are 6500k. I did have three of the plant and aquarium bulbs on it before and things grew pretty well until they got old........should I expect a dramatic difference now that I have a more "natural" temperature?
Just got some new bulbs.......
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I believe you will not notice much of a difference. Plant and Aquarium bulbs look dim to the human eye, but have stronger output in the regions of the color sprectrum that benefit plants the most. The daylight bulbs might appear brighter to you, but are probably putting out about the same amount of Photosynthetically useable radiation as the P&A bulbs, most likely less.
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