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Originally Posted by Chaoslord
I did my resacpe in my 14.
I pulled my fish out and drained all the water.
My total water volume was 7gals completey drained all the way to gravel.
I do have 20 lbs of eco complete.
Now this would explain why my lights were burning everything. Just the one bulb is putting me a little over 3 wpg when I was trying to run both, thats over 6 wpg.
Maybe I should reconsider co2. Lol.
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One more thing regarding watts per gallon... I was reading this today:
WPG or watts per gallon is a rough rule of thumb that measures how much light you have. To figure your WPG you just take your total watts and divide it by the number of gallons your tank holds. Example: Standard 55 gallon tank normally comes with either 2 18 watt bulbs for a total of 36 watts or a single 40 watt bulb. In the first case 36÷55=0.65 wpg. In the second case 40÷55=0.72 wpg. For a 55 gallon tank you really want around 110 watts. Note that WPG is based on fluorescent watts and US gallons. Also it was based on T12 lighting with basic reflectors. With better lighting technology and reflectors you can get by with less light.
So watts per gallon is based on tank size and not how much water is in the tank.