Ok today was the light shopping day. I bought 2 strip lights. I found two timers for the lights in my aquarium junk box. I am going to run 7 hrs on the display tank and about 14 hrs on the vegatative filter. One nice stainless steel striplight for the display tank and a el cheapo for the fuge. For the display tank I used one 6500K and one 5000K T-8 bulbs from home depot (total of $28 for the fixture and lights, about 1/4 of the price at an aquaium store). For the fuge light I just used two 6500K lights. I got two water hycanths (spelling?) from my pond to use as the vegatative filtration. You can see the crazy root structure in one of the pics. They grow pretty quick so we will see how they do. I would guess in several months they will completely cover the entire fuge in a big network of plants. I put a bunch of aluminum foil on the fuge light to help give the plants all the light possible. If the plants start not looking good, then they will go out to the pond again. They float so it is much easier to manage the fuge.....want to get in the fuge, just put them in a bucket! With the spaths it took 25 minutes to clear the plants out of the fuge. We will see how well they do indoors. If they fail I can always go back to the spaths.......There is one pic of the rosy barbs also....
