Lights for planted aquarium

Hi! Need some help to get proper lighting for my planted tank, might be a little hard to help me because I live in Europe and might not be able to get the same stuff you guys do over there, but let's give it a try.

So my tank has 84L, or about 20g...

Lots of plants, but without proper lighting. The LFS sells the Flora-glo, which are quite expensive (20 euro).
Would this be enough? Just one tube
I also heard the aquarium turns pinkish color due to red-blue spectrum. Anyone who uses these, able to send me a pic so I can see what it looks like?? Please.

If this is true, any way to get the colors back to real colors?

Thanks!

 

Sorry, have not heard of those lights in the US. Do you mind posting links to the lights you are considering?

 

Sorry, have not heard of those lights in the US. Do you mind posting links to the lights you are considering?

18/20W (60cm) HAGEN FLORA-GLO


Does it sound good for planted tank? Maybe I can turn on this weird colored light when I'm working, and when I'm at home I turn it off and use the regular white bulb light to look at my fishies. Is that a good idea? The white light I use sucks anyway, so wouldn't do much harm in terms of algae, I suppose...

 

Seems decent enough, have you tried looking for an LED light though, would be a lot cooler/cheaper to run. How do the prices compare for an LED light vs the flora glo?

 

Cheapest I found was 60 euro :/ found this one for 20 thought was good but then I saw the pink light due to red /blue spectrum

 

I personally would not use that bulb. There is way too much blue in the spectrum. For terrestrial plants blue is okay, i dont care for the hue but for aquatic plant the blues will promote algae growth plus they are not a natural look. Get you a full spectrum bright daylight bulb. There are many choices and you can spend as much or as little as you want to.

 

18/20W (59cm) HAGEN SUN-GLO

How about that one? Says it sucks for plants though... I don't want my plants to die... Can these specs keep at least the plants alive? Easy/medium difficulty plants. Dont mind them not grow fast

 

That bulb first bulb is fine and plants need blue light. It's just missing the red. It would look nicer if as mentioned above you go for a full spectrum light, with spikes in the spectrum over blue and red. The second one looks good. In the description the manufacturer recommends using them both together, but it's hard to tell if that will be too much light for your particular setup.
How long is the tank? Is it rimless? Chihiros makes lights that put out really good PAR for their price, and they are dimmable.

 

Ended up buying the Life-Glo, 6700K. 15w.. Daylight and full spectrum hopefully its enough, one bulb. Though I bought the 60cm one and I need the 45cm... Hopefully they'll swap, with all this covid going on... I'll try to get some red LED strips for cheap from ebay to help the plants... Eventually, not now. It says on the box it's good for planted aquariums, hopefully it's enough for mine, for a while.