Lighting up small tanks

I noticed they also have a 36w strip that they said will fit on a 10 gallon, so now im not sure which way to go on this one. Also with the 5g being an eclipse im thinking i would have a hard time modifying that hood to put another ligth in there and somehow protect it from water damage.
 
26w should be fine for your 10 gall. If it's not that much diff though 36 would be better for those medium-high light plants.

Not sure on the 5 gall hood. My 5 gall hood is just a basic hood with incadescent lighting right now. But it still has that piece of glass under the light to protect it.
 
would/should the great majority of plants do well with the 26w setup? I dont want nor do i need to give the plants so much light they are going to grow like crazy, i would be trimming leaves constantly to keep some fish viewing areas in my tank.
 
I added 92 watts to my aquarium by building a small rectangular box that fit on top of the tank and then wired a bunch of those standard socket CFLs together in parallel. The box was getting hot so i added a small computer fan plugged into a DC/ac converter. Found that the plants did best when i used the (5600K?) daylight bulbs, the color was also better. Ill explain more in detail if anyone is interested.
 
Well Friday night i noticed a fairly large, leaking crack in my 5 gallon (so much for the strength of acrylic). Suddenly, everyone I knew who wanted to sell their (larger) aquariums had changed their minds. I bought an empty 10g tank and fitted it with extra stuff from mine, including an incadescent hood with 2 screw in fluorescent. Supposed to be 30w, so i think im just going to leave things as they currently are, keeping medium light plants there and low light in the original tank with 15w fluorescent tube for now, at least.
I was experimenting with diy co2 on the 10, but i will most likely eliminate that or move it to the fresh setup. I might just go to flourish excel to save some trouble. Ive heard good things about it
 
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