My cheato dosent really grow that much.I have good flow through the fuge have a pice of rock and that clamp on light jbj macro grow on 24hrs most of the time mabe everyother day I shut it for a few hrs because I have a clown fish in there. I know its not because I have no phos I usually get .05-.02 on the hanna and have some algae here and there.IM just wondering because I hear people trimming it down a lot.Could it be the light is not strong enough?
fuge light cheato ?
- Thread starter SteveZ15
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Absolutely. I changed my fuge light from a coralife fuge light to a led fuge light. What a difference in growth. Went from a baseball size piece to a approx watermelon size loaded with pods in a matter of a few months
- Location
- Ridgewood, NY
I agree, I switched mine also to a PAR 38 daylight LED bulb and it worked out great. Hope this helps.
- Location
- Ridgewood, NY
I also heard that the fuge light should be in the 5000-6500K spectrum, not sure how true that is.
- Location
- Midtown Manhattan
Out of interest, why is your clown in the fuge?
- Location
- Midtown Manhattan
Ah, that makes sense.
- Location
- Old Bethpage
I have a CFL 5000k light. My Cheato grows and grows and grows. Only thing is the light bleed is kinda annoying. I would like to find a mini 5000k hood.
- Location
- Rockland County, NY
I have been using a cree daylight bulb from Home Depot for the past couple of weeks. My cheato has doubled since.
- Location
- Long Island-east suffolk
What about costco LED cree ?
Jake
Jake
- Location
- Elmhurst, NY
I am having the same problem. I am using a 5K Plant Growth T8. Is this not enough? Should I go with the Plant LEDs?
- Location
- Rockland County, NY
Cree is a brand of led diode. They just started making screw in light bulbs.
- Location
- Brooklyn
I used to have the basic home depot light that had a rating of 6500 and I trimmed my charro like every 2 weeks!
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