I'm going to take the plunge in LED's for 3 of my planted tanks, hoping to get some advice. Been reading alot about the Finnex on here and that seems to be one route alot of people are choosing. I came across a post on my local fish forum from someone who purchased LED floodlights from China. This company doesn't specialize in aquariums, just regular lights. He posted a video of his reef tank here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0otFIEkWzw&feature=youtu.be&hd=1
I also feel like with the cfl I would just be meeting the light requirements and if further down the road I wanted to move up from low light I wouldn't be able to continue with the cfl and would have to start all over again with lighting where as I could add a light or 2 of led and be in good shape... overall cfl just isn't where I want to go
Hi everyone I'm new to the planted aquarium world but have been into reef tanks for the last 1 1/2. I have 4 @ 30 w on my 125gal long and my tank looks great and plants are growing.
Hi,
I have a 67 gal planted that is 24" high. I'm using T5 HO & spiral CFL currently, total 150 watts. Plants are pretty much happy. I'm planning to replace these with LED flood lights. I'd like to increase the lights a bit to allow for high light plants. The options available here are with 60 & 120 deg beam angle. 50W are with 6000 lumens 30 with 2700 lumens.
1. Should I go for 30W x 3 or 50W x 2 ?
2. What should be the distance between two lights
3. What will be the optimum height from water surface
Maybe you could use 3 of 30watt each so you can spread better the light to your plants. Otherwise if you have some plants that need more light you could use a stronger one above them or you could move the two lights closer to focus the light on the most difficult plants.
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