Hi, I've just inherited a 150W Metal Halide fixture and suspended it from the roof over a spare 120L tank.
Not knowing much about Kelvin and such, I took the old lamp from it to a store, and had them order in a replacement. It took 2 weeks to arrive as a special order. It turns out to be a 10,000K temp.
Yesterday I read that you shouldn't use anything above 6,000K since only algae will will proliferate from the higher temp.
Another article said that aquatic plants use light temp up to 8,000K which sort ot makes it ok!?
Seeing that they specially ordered it in, I may have trouble returning it for the 5,400K version.
From your experiences, is the 10k-K ok to use?
Not knowing much about Kelvin and such, I took the old lamp from it to a store, and had them order in a replacement. It took 2 weeks to arrive as a special order. It turns out to be a 10,000K temp.
Yesterday I read that you shouldn't use anything above 6,000K since only algae will will proliferate from the higher temp.
Another article said that aquatic plants use light temp up to 8,000K which sort ot makes it ok!?
Seeing that they specially ordered it in, I may have trouble returning it for the 5,400K version.
From your experiences, is the 10k-K ok to use?
