Recomend Me Some Lights!

[bUcky]

ok so im really tyred of killing all my plants. i just ordered alot of new plants. i was trying to get them to grow with some GE light bulbs from a grocery store. (it was a wannabe DIY) so i want to get the right lights.

i have a 30 gallon long i guess its a 3ft tank. it has small gravel in it now that i really dont want to change.
and i wanted to use this as my new planted tank. Its fully cycled now. im using diy soda bottle c02.

Well can anyone please recomend me some lights so i can finally get nice full plants and a full tank.

my plants are jungle vals, corksrew vals, java moss, anarchis, DWARF CHAIN SWORDS, AMAZON SWORDS, glosso, riccia, java/ xmas moss, dwarfhairgrass, and micro swords.

they should be here tomorow so i really need to get good lighting fast. i just spent alot of money on the plants and want a nice looking tank. so money will have to be sacraficed. (im cheap lol)

pH is high but im going to put all my driftwood in the tank, about 10 peices, will it help?

what wpg do i need? 3.0? or more?

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recomendations?

also what kelvin rating should the lights be is 6500k good?

 

[Themuleous]

You could get 3x T8 24" tubes that would give you 54w of light or 1.6WPG which would be ok, any higher and you'll probably need TO look into replacing the substrate.

Make sure the bulbs are designed for plants and probably around 6500K.

Sam