In an earlier post here, I indicated that I was having issues with the amount of heat my Coralife Freshwater Mini light was putting off. It was raising the water temperature a good 7 degrees or more (putting me into high risk for killing off my fish). I decided to check out the Current USA LED strips (10000K) to see if that would solve my problem.
The short version is that 1 LED strip did not cut it. Using 2 LED strips looks great (in my opinion anyway). In addition, I actually can't notice ANY temp increase with the LEDs on.
I am not sure how well my plants will do with the LEDs, but since it was so hard to find any info on LEDs used as the sole light source in a nano, I thought I would share.
I apologize in advance for the tiny pic size. The focus at full resolution got really bad so I figured you can maybe still make something out from the smaller versions.
Here is the Coralife Mini Freshwater 6500K (notice the "shade" on the left side where the light is not directly over)
Here is the Current PowerBrite LED 10000K with 1 Strip (centered, it left both the very front and the very back looking dim)
Here is the Current Powerbrite LED 10000K with 2 Strips (there is somewhat of a beam effect, but it can by minimzed by not placing tall things directly under the beams - which I haven't adjusted for yet)
The short version is that 1 LED strip did not cut it. Using 2 LED strips looks great (in my opinion anyway). In addition, I actually can't notice ANY temp increase with the LEDs on.
I am not sure how well my plants will do with the LEDs, but since it was so hard to find any info on LEDs used as the sole light source in a nano, I thought I would share.
I apologize in advance for the tiny pic size. The focus at full resolution got really bad so I figured you can maybe still make something out from the smaller versions.
Here is the Coralife Mini Freshwater 6500K (notice the "shade" on the left side where the light is not directly over)
Here is the Current PowerBrite LED 10000K with 1 Strip (centered, it left both the very front and the very back looking dim)
Here is the Current Powerbrite LED 10000K with 2 Strips (there is somewhat of a beam effect, but it can by minimzed by not placing tall things directly under the beams - which I haven't adjusted for yet)