Lighting my 60gal planted tank

[senior el roboto]

Hey everybody. Need some lighting help. It's now obvious to me that I need stronger lighting. Smaller foreground plants are not growing well at all. Lower parts of the plants won't hold leaves. The tank dimensions are 24x24x24 cube tank. I currently have 6 17 watt fluorescent bulbs. I have a co2 injection and I treat with seachem ferts once a week.
I have a canopy on the tank so anything that would require setting on top of tank wouldn't work. I currently have the bulbs mounted on the canopy.
Any ideas would be great.
I have been thinking LED light strips?

[DerekFF]

LEDs would be good. You may be lacking good flow or light distribution. Make sure your light sources as they spread out the further down in the water they overlap so that even the bases of plants get some light. Hard to explain with words. You want light sources to cross at the bottom of the tank basically.

[Fire-Ted]

Check out the Fugeray2 by Finnex. I have one of the 48" models over a standard 90 gallon 48 x 18 x 24 tall. It grows medium plants well. I have dwarf sag as a foreground and it stays low.

You may want to get 2 of the 24" long models for a cube.

www.finnex.net

[rbarn]

Go LED and you will never look back. Initial cost is high but quickly pays itself back in energy savings and bulbs.

Ecoxotic Panorma are great. They have 6500k fresh water module now.
http://www.ecoxotic.com/panorama-led-modules.html

Very cool dimming programmers available too.
http://www.ecoxotic.com/simple-one-touch-controller.html