Fish load for new 5g tank

On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 00:30:53 -0500, "NetMax"
wrote:

"Richard Sexton" wrote in message
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In article .com,
Altum wrote:
Are you asking about 5 gallon tanks or Ember Tetras/Mosquito Rasboras?
I've never kept either of those fish but I do run small tanks.

For my 5 gallon tanks in general, about 20-25W of compact fluorescent
light to grow plants,

I'm addressing only the lighting issue here. By convention most people
use "watts per gallon" but I saw an intersting definition recently,
"watts per cubic foot". With "20" being the right number of watts
per cubic foot.

I like it :-)

I dunno. That means I need 300W on my 15cu.ft. 120g! That's more than
seven 40W tubes (get me my sunglasses, get my fish sunglasses ;~).

Rather that sunglasses, you and your fish might need night vision
goggles to see through the algae thickened water from all that light.