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I have 2 of these lights for my 5 gallon aquarium. 2 Compact Fluorescent bulbs. 60 Watts total for 2 Sqft. Is this light enough? It's sure lighting up my room!!

Do you know how much lumens it produces?

A quick search brought me to the specification page:
http://www.replacementlightbulbs.com/la ... 5000k.html

4000 lumens from 2 bulbs will be sufficient for a couple vfts, but they must be inches away from the plants. Otherwise, growth will be thin and spindly.

2000 Lumen each bulb. A rule of thumb I heard was 25 Watts per Sqft of coverage. Bulbs are 7-12 inches away from the plants.

They wont be close enough, you have to consider for every each you spread those lumens... Closer to the plant you get the more concentrated the area is. The lights you have arent near powerful in my opinion. Your lights are comparable to a flashlight. My first light I ever used was a 102 watt cfl

I swapped them out with 2-55 Watt bulbs....Combined these 2 bulbs are 7,200 Lumen, and 110Watts. This is for a 5 gallon aquarium.

2 bulbs= 7,200 Lumen, and 110Watts? Could that be if I'm buying Hydrofarm FLC200D 200W Compact Fluorescent Bulb - Daylight which claims to be only 10,000 lumens. Also how importand is CRI?

It's not the light intensity of the lamps, but the light intesity at the plants that counts. Your reflector is as, or more important than the lamps. A 10000 lumen lamp can put 100 - 100K lumens at the plant, depending on the focus of the reflector.

I'm using 4 T5 HO bulbs in an aquarium fixture to provide 4000 - 4500 lumens in a 4 ft X 1 ft grow area. The bulbs I use in the fixture are 2 X 6700K, 1 X 4100K, 1 X 3000K.

I'm wondering if 200 watt cfl in a reflector is too much to light some vft's and sundew in a 1ft by 2ft area on a shelf?