To use this tool: Simply fill in your aquarium length, width and height and you should get the following results:
- Light Requirements: The light power you need for your aquarium. At first you'll get a recommended (see chart bellow) watt-per-liter power, and you can change it if you want (for example if you have a low-tech aquarium with less lighting requirements).
- Filter: What kind of filter you need for your fish tank - liters-per-hour.
- Heater: The power your heater should have - watt.
- Heater Cable: The length of the heating cable that match your aquarium dimensions.
Recommended Watt-per-Liter
When you fill in your aquarium dimensions, you will get the recommended lighting power, this is based on Takashi Amano's tanks as shown here:
T5 lamps
You should calculate the amount of light in terms of lumens.
When I use T5 it is 30% stronger than T8
We should enter the number of lighbulb, type of lighbulb (T5, T8, HQI), the power.
good work…unique site and
good work…unique site and interesting too… keep it up…i am looking forward for more updates.
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Light measurement
With the introduction of LED illumination it is surely necessary to express lighting requirements in Lumens and NOT in electricity consumed, since Watts is NOT a unit of light output or intensity.
Brilliant post mate, keep up
Brilliant post mate, keep up the good work
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It´s complex, but the calculations are quite good actually.
LED is not necessarily any more efficient if it´s white, but if the light is for plants, white isn´t actually necessary (although it´s probably desirable when humans are watching), therefore lumens are also only relevant within the context of colour.
The most efficient type of white lighting is still, by far, ceramic metal halide, but it is unreasonable unless your tank is around 8,000 litres and cylindrical for starters. For smaller projects, it's still a saw off between white LED and fluorescent.
If you´re big into plants, but aren´t watching your aquarium 16 hours a day, a mix of red and blue LED lights will keep both your plants and your power bill extremely happy and your fish content. Plants don´t really have much use for green light, which is why they are green. While fluorescent only produces white light regardless, the big energy savings with LED only come with producing light in the colours plants want (red and blue) Of course for vane and picky humans, very few want to look at an aquarium unless it uses white light.
Don´t get me started on solar lighting, although I´ll note it´s also available in most parts of the world.
All things considered however, IMHO, the calculation provided is a very reasonable basic standard.
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Heating also depends on the standard room temperature and the type of fish and plants (e.g., for trout you normally would need a chiller rather than a heater), but again the calculation probably works for most people.
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Filtration also depends on things like population, water change amount and frequency, feeding technique, types of food, plant species, plant surface area, hours and effectiveness of plant lighting, and of course fish (or other aquatic creature) tolerance to ¨bad¨ water. Yet still again the calculation provided here is a great place to start off.
Thank you
Thank you very much EdmontonAquarium for this very informative comment.
The calculation are of course, just meant to be a starting point for most people.
Thanks heaps to the
Thanks heaps to the author!
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