Lighting Requirments For Indoor Setup, To maintain healthy goldfish colouration & wall algae Options

[Chinmo]

helo bros! wanna check with bros using 150 watt mh to generate green water....... hw many days before clear water becomes green water with MH? What's the duration on each day? what tub size used? keeping 2-4 3inch goldfish? Pls advice

This post has been edited by Chinmo: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:52 pm

[Rooney10]

Thanks man. It was nice of you to post the links. Had a nice read over there.

Ive got a question though. Those using tubs to keep goldfishes instead of tank, how do you actually situate the lighting to actually keep it in place? Ive got a 4feet tub.

Anyway, in regards to your discussion, has there been evidence actually that aquarium lighting, whatever type it is, helps to maintain fish colour, or in regards to this, goldfish colour?

[Kinder]

Thanks man. It was nice of you to post the links. Had a nice read over there.

Ive got a question though. Those using tubs to keep goldfishes instead of tank, how do you actually situate the lighting to actually keep it in place? Ive got a 4feet tub.

I keep my tubs out in the balcony...so no need of lighting. But if u keep your tubs indoor...you could probably suspend the lighting in the air above the tub and try to keep it away from the edges of the plastic tub....dont want them to melt. Im sure you could think of other ways as well

Anyway, in regards to your discussion, has there been evidence actually that aquarium lighting, whatever type it is, helps to maintain fish colour, or in regards to this, goldfish colour?

I dont have the knowledge to correctly answer this, but yeah diffinately lighting is important (better than no lighting). And if you have a lighting system closer to the sun's natural light....im sure that would help in maintaining the goldfish colour

This post has been edited by Kinder: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:09 pm