Acclimate fish/plants to new light?

[ScorpioMonkey]

I was about to jump from 17W to 56W- and I know with coral (SW tanks) you have to acclimate them- do I have to do the same with my FW tank? I don't want to freak out my plants and/or fish.

Pretty much, can I just put all 56W over them, as if nothing changed?

Thanks in advance!

These are the plants/fish I have:


-2 Mollies, 5 Long fin Zebra Danios (+1 reg), 2 Threadfin Rainbowfish, 1 Guppy, 1 tetra, 1 Dwarf Puffer, 3 ghost shrimp, and a Pleco

 

[Mgamer20o0]

i just turn them on when i put new lights in. i havent seen any of my fish act funny when i did it. i have changed the liking 2-3 times.

 

[RockabillyChick]

what sized tank is that? it looks like a 55. if so, then you have plenty of room for more fish, and you should start with rounding out the incomplete schools of fish you already have. tetras, rainbows and danios all do best in schools of 6 or more. livebearers all do best when there is 2 females to every male.

 

[ScorpioMonkey]

Thank you so much RockabillyChick! I really wanted to do exactly that- we've just had some problems... First, I guess, It's only a 29g. And I had 6 tetras, but the one remaining one "beat up" the other 5... I wanted to get more rainbows, but I don't think our petstore is going to carry them any more. It's cool that you mentioned the mollies, b/c i've been thinking about another, and was going to go w/ a female, b/c our female silver lyretail is "prettier" than our male. Oh- and that guppey has killed every other guppey we've had. However, I may get him a female.

Knowing that it is only a 29g, do you still recomend adding more fish to round out the schools? (If so, how many?)


And thank you Mgamer20o0 I did kind of just turn 'em on... except I ran out of wire (and the store closed at 5), so I was only able to turn hook up one of the 2 lights... so I have a half-lit tank. LOL
It's kindda funny, you can see which fish perfer bright light, and which perfer it a bit darker. LOL.

Anyway, thank you both for you're replies.

 

[RockabillyChick]

2 Mollies, 5 Long fin Zebra Danios (+1 reg), 2 Threadfin Rainbowfish, 1 Guppy, 1 tetra, 1 Dwarf Puffer, 3 ghost shrimp, and a Pleco

i think the livebearers will be fine without groups, unless you want another mollie, that would probably be fine.

the pleco needs to go unless it is one of the smaller species. it will DEFINATELY overload that tank if its a common pleco. they average about 18 inches.

the rainbows should have more in their school, but if you can't find anymore then......

it really depends on the type of tetra. you should have at least 6 of all the same kind of tetra. he really does need a school, but they all need to be the same type of tetra as he is.