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Tropical Fish Secrets It is hard to determine what the exact lighting for the fish is. The advantage to having a well planted aquarium is that if it is too bright for you fish, they can find shade among the plants. The more natural the lighting is to sunlight the more natural the fish and plants will appear. The color of the light varies depending on the time of day. How does that affect your aquarium? Well, the different colours of light encourage different things. Red light which occurs in the morning or the evening encourages vertical growth. Blue light which occurs in the midday fosters the sturdiness of the plants. For these reasons, it is important that you supply your aquarium with both sources of light. Most tanks use fluorescent tubes because light bulbs are too expensive and generally give off too much heat. Fluorescent tubes are also used because you can vary the types of tubes that you use. The variations will provide different coloured lights that will give your aquarium a good mixture for both the fish and the plants. An aquarium should have a combination of warm and cold tone lights. Warm tones tend to use the red end of the spectrum and cold tones tend to use the blue end. White lights will give you a range of the spectrum. (Tip: Grow lights tend to change the look of your fish). If you are going to use grow lights, they should not be used in the first three to six months because they cause algae to form. It is important to note that fluorescent lights will lose half their power within six months. You should replace your lights every 6 months. Most lights have reflectors that will increase the light intensity. If this is not the case, then you can line your cover with foil. This will give you the same effect. Ask your retailer for fluorescent tubes with reflective coating. The light will be more efficient if you clean the cover every week. Mineral deposit and algae will build up on the cover making your fluorescent lights ineffective. It is ideal if you can hang the fluorescent lighting above the tank. They will then not heat the aquarium and they are out of splashing range. It is also easier to clean, catch fish and empty the tank if there are no lights attached to it. IF you have to move the lights to do anything in the tank, you might not be able to see what you need to do in the tank. A good distance between the lights and the cover is 4 inches or 10 cm. Then if you need to do work in the tank, you can raise them. Another type of lighting that has become popular recently is mercury vapor lights. They are usually suspended over the aquarium and they have been quite successful. This type of lighting should only be used in tanks that are 20 inches or higher. They tend to last longer than fluorescent lights and they are still 80% of their original capacity after 2 years of use. They are also at full intensity after about 5 minutes. This mimicks the natural sunrise and may be easier on the occupants of the aquarium. It is not uncommon that plants under this form of lighting will grow quite quickly and will require you to cut them back. I recommend that you plant the back and the side with dense plants and leave the top open. In this case, you may not need to cover the dense area of plants. Fish hardly ever jump where there are dense plants.
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