I had an ad up on Craigslist for a while requesting a cheap heater for one of my 10gal tanks. I got a couple heaters for free, but one of them doesn't work (which angers me as it was the nice Marineland one) and the other did work for a while before deciding to super-heat the water to 90-100F (luckily there weren't any fish in the tank at the time and I waited until the temperature went down to a respectable level after removing that heater before replacing it with a different one I got at a thrift store that works perfectly). Anyway, I got a response from a lady that had a 50W submersible heater that she'd sell me for $5. I immediately said yes (since I was down to one heater and have two 10gals) and went to pick it up today. I wasn't paying much attention between ogling her son's SW setup and some random aquaria parafinalia she had lying around that looked like it needed a home, but I just got home and went to clean the heater. It's not a 50W, it's a 200W! This is probably WAY too much for my 10gal, right? If it is too big for the 10gal, would it be okay on my new 40gL that's going to get set up in the next couple of days so it can start cycling?
On to the light question...At the same house mentioned in the above question, the lady had a really nice T5 fixture sitting in her living room. It was 48" long. I commented on how I wanted something like that for my 40gL because right now I'm going to have to put my 36" fixture from the 46gal on the 40gL, which is 48" long. She said that one of the bulbs was burnt out, but she believed her son wanted to sell it. We plugged it in and indeed one of the two dual bulbs was burnt out. However, the bulbs were configured for SW (with the regular flourescent and the blue bulb), not FW like my tank is going to be (which I believe uses the regular flourescent and a pinkish bulb?). Could the SW bulbs be replaced in that fixture to make it FW planted tank friendly?
On to the light question...At the same house mentioned in the above question, the lady had a really nice T5 fixture sitting in her living room. It was 48" long. I commented on how I wanted something like that for my 40gL because right now I'm going to have to put my 36" fixture from the 46gal on the 40gL, which is 48" long. She said that one of the bulbs was burnt out, but she believed her son wanted to sell it. We plugged it in and indeed one of the two dual bulbs was burnt out. However, the bulbs were configured for SW (with the regular flourescent and the blue bulb), not FW like my tank is going to be (which I believe uses the regular flourescent and a pinkish bulb?). Could the SW bulbs be replaced in that fixture to make it FW planted tank friendly?
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