OMG! You really know your stuff. Is aquaponics your area of specialty? I have watched a couple channels for a few years, but found a new favorite. My hats off to you sir.
Yes aquaponics is my area of specialty within my masters program and where I have spent most of my time, particularly looking at LED lights for growing plants. Aquaponics work, either research or farming, is what I would love to do for work, and looks like I will be able to. There are some other really interesting areas in aquaculture, biofloc and in-pond raceways, that I really enjoy besides aquaponics but to describe them in a TH-cam comment would be crazy. Thank you James for the compliment and hopefully you’ll enjoy all the new videos that I plan to release in the spring.
Hello bro! Like I said before, you are an expert in your hobby. It is true! expert right. I hope you are willing to continue to share knowledge and always be successful in what you do. great bro!😁👍
So in my study, I had lights that were shop lights, commercial lights, Red blue grow lights, and RGB lights. In my research with lettuce, the quality of the light doesn't matter as much as the quantity of light. When you start optimizing color profiles you are getting very little productive gain from that change. Gain yes, measurable gain maybe, worthwhile gain in only very certain situations. The biggest gains are when you start increasing the amount of light, regardless of the quality. Going from 50 PAR to 200 PAR is going to do more for your plants because the total amount of light increase is more important than optimizing the color spectrum. I think that the plants need to just be blasted with light. In the future I am going to look into using outdoor flood lights for my plant tank light due to their durability to water and cheapness of them compared to the aquarium lights. For larger tanks I think some of the shop lights or commercial lights would be good options that are cheap and effective at growing plants. Hopefully that answers your question.
@@TheAquariumLibrary I'm really truly glad I watched this Video, now I can spend $100 on lights for the 90 gallon aqua scrape I am doing, if I had bought high end RGB 2 like chihiros 120cm I'd have $400 in lighting.. big savings
I’m glad I was able to help. I think also this fancy lighting is just that fancy. When all we really need is lighting. Is a extra $300 dollars for the sleekest LED light really worth it. I think not. I am currently looking at getting a light equivalent to the fluval 3.0 in all the light specifications, like wattage, Kelvin, and lumens. The Fluval 3.0 is $190. This light is $30. Sure it can’t do all the fancy things that the fluval can do, but do my fish or plants really care about all that jazz? I think not. If you remember, I’d love to hear how you are doing a couple months down the road and how you are liking the lights on your tank.
OMG! You really know your stuff. Is aquaponics your area of specialty? I have watched a couple channels for a few years, but found a new favorite. My hats off to you sir.
Yes aquaponics is my area of specialty within my masters program and where I have spent most of my time, particularly looking at LED lights for growing plants. Aquaponics work, either research or farming, is what I would love to do for work, and looks like I will be able to.
There are some other really interesting areas in aquaculture, biofloc and in-pond raceways, that I really enjoy besides aquaponics but to describe them in a TH-cam comment would be crazy.
Thank you James for the compliment and hopefully you’ll enjoy all the new videos that I plan to release in the spring.
@@TheAquariumLibrary I’ll be anxiously awaiting every video you put out. Finally an intellectual with a love for aquatics. 👍🏾
Hello bro! Like I said before, you are an expert in your hobby. It is true! expert right. I hope you are willing to continue to share knowledge and always be successful in what you do. great bro!😁👍
Thank you! I appreciate those kind words.
So in your opinion would you use an RGB aqua scrapers lite to grow aquatic plants or one of the best performing grow lights from your study??
So in my study, I had lights that were shop lights, commercial lights, Red blue grow lights, and RGB lights. In my research with lettuce, the quality of the light doesn't matter as much as the quantity of light. When you start optimizing color profiles you are getting very little productive gain from that change. Gain yes, measurable gain maybe, worthwhile gain in only very certain situations. The biggest gains are when you start increasing the amount of light, regardless of the quality. Going from 50 PAR to 200 PAR is going to do more for your plants because the total amount of light increase is more important than optimizing the color spectrum.
I think that the plants need to just be blasted with light. In the future I am going to look into using outdoor flood lights for my plant tank light due to their durability to water and cheapness of them compared to the aquarium lights. For larger tanks I think some of the shop lights or commercial lights would be good options that are cheap and effective at growing plants.
Hopefully that answers your question.
@@TheAquariumLibrary that's what I gathered from watching it.
@@TheAquariumLibrary I'm really truly glad I watched this Video, now I can spend $100 on lights for the 90 gallon aqua scrape I am doing, if I had bought high end RGB 2 like chihiros 120cm I'd have $400 in lighting.. big savings
I’m glad I was able to help. I think also this fancy lighting is just that fancy. When all we really need is lighting. Is a extra $300 dollars for the sleekest LED light really worth it. I think not.
I am currently looking at getting a light equivalent to the fluval 3.0 in all the light specifications, like wattage, Kelvin, and lumens. The Fluval 3.0 is $190. This light is $30. Sure it can’t do all the fancy things that the fluval can do, but do my fish or plants really care about all that jazz? I think not.
If you remember, I’d love to hear how you are doing a couple months down the road and how you are liking the lights on your tank.
@@TheAquariumLibrary gathering the hard scape for a 90 gallon has been a major pain