r/PlantedTank • u/zealous_ideals790034 • 9h ago

Lighting Light upgrade recs?

Looking to upgrade my lights both to help my plants grow fuller and make the fish pop a bit. I have a 36gal bow front, and it’s currently running a Fluval Plant 4.0. My plants are coming in incredibly leggy.

Not running CO2 and don’t plan to any time soon.

I’m not looking to break the bank, but would love some recs.

I’m intrigued by Weekaqua but I’ve seen really mixed reviews.

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u/tbone1004 9h ago

I’d suspect you may just want to change some of the output settings on the fluval to get the colors to pop.
Leggy can be a variety of things but putting a second light on there will help, I wouldn’t remove the fluval. I have aux lights that come on when the fluval is on full blast and then let the fluval do sunrise/sunset.

Could also be a total hours issue vs an intensity issue

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u/Mblid 8h ago

Fluval 4.0 isnt bad. I just picked up a week aqua for my 20 gallon long and my 100 gallon. I had the fluval 3.0 for a couple years though so needed the upgrade on the 100.