Just get a couple of desklamps and put in some 6500K "daylight" screw-in CFs (the aforementioned Dairyqueen soft-serve icecream bulbs).
Your goal is to simply keep anything photosynthetic alive in the QT and not to have to frag it at the end of the month. Worked very for me and my little 10 gallon QT.
Ask Seahorse_Fanatic, he keeps well-planted FW tanks under nothing but these things.
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