Thinking of setting up a tank

I'm thinking of setting up one of my 20g tanks as a planted tank. It's been about 3 years since I tore down my tank. I have plenty of substrate so that won't be a problem. I will have plenty of light over it. Filter will probably be an old fluval 303 or 404 something like that and pressurized Co2. I will need to acquire some plant though. I was thinking I would like a nice Anubis batarie var. nana, an L. Repens, and I was thinking sunset hygro to start. Tank will have about 9- 10 Wpg. Any suggestions. And I'll need a new diffuser for co2 any suggestions


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Lighting will be t5ho I can reduce light I was planning on only about 108 watts over the tank. So roughly about 4-5 Wpg what is the new rule of thumb


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So basically we threw out Wpg for how much useable light actually gets to the plants. I'm stuck on how we measure it with out spending over 100 dollars?


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I see that. It's a 20 long by the way but I'm thinking of going with the 20 tall. I never did like lighting I will probably just use something close to what I used on one of these tanks before that worked I think I was using a 5500k t8 and a 6500k t8 before and got really good results out of my Anubis so I will try some thing like that again to start off and go from there it won't be perfect but it's a start.


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Well the t8's I was going to use fell apart when I was cleaning them. I guess they got brittle, so for now I have my old t5 setup over it. i will post a pic soon, it looks funny having a light for a 55g sitting on top of a 20 long there is about 6in over hang on each side. As for my filter I need new impeller and o rings for the fluval so I figured no problem use the eheim 2215 so it needs new hoses, 0 rings, and clamps are broken so I guess the lesson is dont leave things sitting in a covered tank for long they deteriorate when not being used. So for now I will use an old whisper 20, along with an aquaclear 50. Had to steal the motor from the aquaclear 20. For fun I guess I could have setup a 15 gal sump I have sitting here but I'm sure something would have been broken lol. I think it's time I inventory what I have and get rid of anything that's broken and that I can't find parts for. I think with the over kill light I may have to inject Co2 let's hope the tank isn't broken.




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