10 gallon lighting question

[Lightning Bug]

iv got a coralife 50/50 on my 10 gallon tank right now. it works fine for the java moss, amazon sword, and duckweed iv got in there right now; but im planning on adding cambomba carolina, an anubis nana, dwarf hair grass, anacharis, and moneywort. so im thinking i should add a coralife nutrigrow plant lamp http://www.drsfostersmith.com/produc...05&pcatid=4505

will those two bulbs combined be enough for all those plants?

i also have questions about possibly using fertilizers and CO2 but we can talk about how to properly use those (if i need them) later. first i just want to get lighting taken care of

thanks in advance guys

 

[Trigger1985]

Wait a coralife 50/50 as in the half white half acetic blue bulbs for saltwater reef tanks? Well blue light is used by plants to grow leaves, and it certainly seems to be proof in this tank, haha. Well, the 18" is a 15 w bulb, so 2 15 w bulbs would be 30 watts over a 10 gallon giving 3 WPG.. you'll be fine, though your floating plants will probably need to be cleared a whole lot more often.
Try looking at your hardware store- got the correct size and wattage Gro-Lamp for freshwater fish and plants for half what the fish stores sell. It's work a shot.

 

[Mgamer20o0]

if the sword is growing those should too. keep doing what you are doing add the new plants and see what happens.

 

[zpromoter]

wow, that is some great growth! How long has the tank been set up for?

 

[Lightning Bug]

the tank has been set up for atleast 6 months, sort of. pretty much everything has been transferred from a 20 gallon i used to have setup... space constraints mean this is the biggest tank i can have for the moment. the clump of moss has been growing for about 2 years. its doubled in size several times since then lol. the sword is the offspring of a parent sword i had about 9 months ago. its has grown up from about 4 or 5" to what it is now since its been moved to this tank. its managed to send out enough roots to keep from being uprooted, which is good cause i have 2 banjo catfishes in there. here's a pic of one of them actually buried underneath it.

i know these new plants might have difficultly getting rooted with my banjos in there but thats ok, if they come up ill just replant them.

in general, what light spectrum, lumen output, and kelvin range is best for freshwater plants? i know that most plants are green because they dont use the green part of the spectrum during photosynthesis, hence it is reflected and causes the appearance of the plant to be "green". what else should i know?

 

[Lightning Bug]

oh and here's a pic of my old 20 gallon. i miss it so much. oh well. life is long, iv got plenty of time to have such things again later that is th parent sword in the pic.