How much Plant Lighting for 10 gallon

sheila1998
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I am using a 13 watt aquarium light for my 10 gallon tank and 6 gallon tank and I am starting to notice that my plants are dying, but only one or two are flourishing. They are all low light plants. Could the lighting be the issue? How much wattage is best for a 6 gallon & 10 gallon low light planted aquarium?
 

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86 ssinit
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Are they led lights? Are you feeding your plants ferts and how often do you change water. Plants need ferts and clean water.
 

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sheila1998
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Are they led lights? Are you feeding your plants ferts and how often do you change water. Plants need ferts and clean water.
Yes they're LED lights and I do 25% water changes weekly, but I decided to stop the fertilizer out of fear the copper in it would hurt any invertebrates I want for the tank. Is there another solution to this or something that won't harm the inverts, but still help the plants?
 
86 ssinit
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I have snails and shrimp in 2 of my tanks and there running for over a year without a problem. I use the flourish line of ferts and the api co2 booster. Plants need food to grow. Your LEDs should be fine. Let’s see a picture. Did the LEDs come with the tanks?
 
sheila1998
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I have snails and shrimp in 2 of my tanks and there running for over a year without a problem. I use the flourish line of ferts and the api co2 booster. Plants need food to grow. Your LEDs should be fine. Let’s see a picture. Did the LEDs come with the tanks?
Not complete yet but this was last week when I first set it up. Initially they were doing fine with a cheaper light I had but this one lights up my entire room. Im considering Aqueon freshwater lights instead! I currently have flourish but stopped using it so I’ll start that again. I also have API leaf zone. Should I use both or just flourish and purchase the CO2 booster?
 

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86 ssinit
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That light looks fine. Just use the flourish comprehensive if that what you have. Looks like a bacterial bloom going on in the tank now. It’s making it look a little milky. This happens with new tanks. May take a few days to go away. Or you can add filter floss to your filter and that should pick it all out.
I’m not a fan of aqueon there are better lights. The one you have looks bright enough.
 
sheila1998
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That light looks fine. Just use the flourish comprehensive if that what you have. Looks like a bacterial bloom going on in the tank now. It’s making it look a little milky. This happens with new tanks. May take a few days to go away. Or you can add filter floss to your filter and that should pick it all out.
I’m not a fan of aqueon there are better lights. The one you have looks bright enough.
Sounds good, thank you so much for your help I appreciate it!
 

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