Need help with marine plant lighting

[jamirlima]

I am planning to put some marine live plants in my fish only tank. 125 gallon. 6 feet wide and around 24 inches tall. I have 2 lights that are 30 watts each with 50/50 lights.
Can this light be enough to grow plants? Different people have different opinion on this.
Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks

 

[scsinet]

I have a 120g freshwater planted tank and I use 440w of VHO over the tank, if that gives you some idea.
60w is not a lot of light at all... I wouldn't try it. The nice thing about plants is that ordinary daylight flourescent lamps will work great for them. Consider a couple of (2) lamp 40W fixtures staggered over the tank. That'll give you 160w total. Dirt cheap and easy.

 

[jamirlima]

Thanks. Someone at petstore told me that saltwater plants dont need that much light as freshwater. So I thought 60 watts would be enough. Also my tank is ony 24 inches tall.

 

[coachklm]

look into spectrum not watts... stick to around 6500k