Blue Lighting ?

[treefella83]

i have a juwel trigon 190 and find that the lighting is too bright for my liking.
i do not keep live plants and do not want floating plants to give shade but i thought of changing one of the two light tubes for a blue one.
i am aware that these blue tubes are for marine aquariums to promote coral growth but are they safe for fresh water set ups?
i have a good amount of bog wood in the tank and the water is the colour of weak tea (without milk) but i still find it too bright.
im sure that the fish will not mind the blue light but i did not want to encourage some sort of algea that cannot be eaten by bristlenose plecs.
any one have any advice?
cheers

 

[Truck]

do you have the T5 ballast? they should be fine, combined with another tube of differing colour

 

[treefella83]

no i have the t8

 

[Truck]

well then your stuck with what you have, the blue tubes only fit and work on the new highlite units T5

 

[RadaR]

Have a looky here, mate.

 

[treefella83]

well not really when you can buy marine blue tubes from many many many aquatic stores in both the t5 and the t8

 

[Truck]

yes but finding the right size is another, juwels lengths are 'unique'

 

[treefella83]

cheers m8 thats the cheapest ive seen them

 

[treefella83]

yes you are right if you work for juwel aquariums.
any 24 inch tube 18-20 watt will fit the trigon 190