LED Lighting vs T5

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the loach

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Yes, though check if "daylight" is really 6000 or 6500K. While some people will have you believe that you need special Led lights to grow aquatic plants, this is absolutely not true. I have been doing it for almost 45 years, in the 60's and 70's incandescent bulbs were still used even to grow plants. There weren't many speciality fluorescent bulbs, so we had to use generic bulbs from the hardware store. You can grow plants just fine, but because they have a low temperature it makes the water look like apple juice and the colors go flat.
I'm recommending you these things as you wanted "nice clean bright lighting" there is where 6500 or 8000K bulbs with high CRI come in, if you have an aquarium in the living room you want it to look good. For the plants it doesn't matter much except for the brightness, and a half decent spectrum (so no marine bulbs)
 
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