Looks like you'll be in the high light camp. With 2 lights, you'll have areas where there will be overlap. That's good because the spread of a single fixture probably wouldn't cut it and hanging the light might not give you enough par at the lowest level of substrate. My friend has the ray 2 and it looks good but almost all of his plants grow in the same shade of green. If you are looking for contrasting colors, the ray 2 might not be the best choice.
My friend has the ray 2 and it looks good but almost all of his plants grow in the same shade of green. If you are looking for contrasting colors, the ray 2 might not be the best choice.
If he wanted color contrast, perhaps he should have purchased plants that can be different colors under different conditions? My Ray 2 grows my two different green plants <gasp> TWO different shades of green. And, I know this is mind boggling, but I even have a RED plant in there?!
Interesting @ the shade of green thing. I had the Ray2DS 24" fixture on my 29G tank and hadn't really noticed that effect, though I'm still at the stage where if anything is growing, I'm pretty happy
Well I have two 75's one has a 3 bulb Catalina fixture with 3 different color temps. And a Ray 2 on the other. Here are the pics and you can see the difference big time.
I've had the lights on my tank for a few days now, so far plants are doing good - some BBA tried to stage a comeback, but I took the photo-period down.
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