I had a 3 gallon Eclipse with 4 anubias plants in it and about 3 months ago the light fixture shorted out. The plants have been sitting in the dark since then. I started to replace the fixture when I remembered I really hated this tank. I had a 7 gallon glass bowfront tank that was used as a nano reef tank sitting around empty so I decided to clean it up. When we set it up as a reef tank we had retrofitted the light to a 32 watt 50/50 CFL. About a month before I gave up on the reef tank I had purchased a new bulb.
Last week I purchased a pure yellow half moon plakat betta and decide this was the time to get everything rolling. For substrate I used the Eco-Complete. I have an Aqueon 20 on the tank because the old filter was beyond disgusting and again I had this one laying around. I took the plants out of the darken 3 gallon and surprisingly they were still alive just a couple of leaves are a little lighter green in color. I did add to the anubias, a couple of crpytos, some java fern and some micro swords. I really hate to buy a new light since it is really only a month old. Is it possible to make do with this light for awhile or am I going to have huge problems. I don't have any co2 and right now I have the lights on about 7-8 hours. The bulb is the Smartpaq daylight 10000K/Actinic 460nm 32W The other option that I was looking at if the one I have in there right now won't work is the Smartpaq 6700K/10000K 18W. Any thoughts I would appreciate.
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