The light is gorgeous and well-made. However,based on previous answer it seems to be unsuitable for my 60 gallon heavily planted tank. Is this true?
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I have a 75 gallon tank with heavy plants. I have been using this light along with an extra strip light for six months now and the plants are growing just fine. The extra strip light is from the same manufacturer as this one, just a single strip of LED's. I have not tried just this light by itself But it wouldn't surprise me if it worked ok with low light plants.
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depends on your plants. It may be adequate for low light plants but definitely not good enough for medium to high light plants.
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I have three on my 150G and my plants are doing GREAT. Amazon swords and ferns.
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I use to used 2 of these for low light plants on my standard tetra "55" g tank (its actually more like 48g and mis-sold as 55.. but I digress) the 24"-36", it has 4 rows of lights that only cover about 17.5" in the center of that 24" space, the 36" is just max leg extension. I removed one leg from each light and put the de-legged side on the center brace (I put a 1" bar on top of the brace to keep lights level), pushing the 2 lights together they fit snugly on top. It worked well for low light aquarium plants like anubias , java fern, vals, mosses, and marimo. However if you want medium light plants I'd strongly advise a different brand made for plant growth.. or just get 6500kelvnin cfls bulbs and clamp on lamps (3-4x) if you don't mind the look of them. I've upgraded to a 2 bulb 6500k t5 light over my "55"g now.
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Wish I could help you but I do not have live plants in my aquarium. You might want to call the store and ask if the spectrum is broad enough for your plants. Otherwise, I am very satisfied with this bulb. It really brings out the color of my fish.
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I do not have live plants in my aquarium. I do have a 50 gal tank and it lights it very nicely. I love the moon light feature.
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It's a really good light as long as your aquarium is not more than say 8 inch bigger longer than the light, does a good job, blue only is not very bright, I just use white @ blue together, I have a 72 inch on my 180 works good, go for it.
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McKAy105, Did you buy this? I am shopping for LED lighting for my 30" deep 150g tank, and would love feedback or other recommendations! Thanks!
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I only have one plant and one Colormax and it give me low medium light in a 20 gallon long tank. You should probably need 6500 and a third strip of your choice would not hurt. I really like what the Colormax bulb does; The colors "pop" on both plants and fish.
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Not sure really... I have this light on my 40 gallon aquarium and it is plenty bright. I have live plants that just love it. Not sure because of no water which absorbs some of the light. It has a "moonlight" setting which is much calmer bluish lighting. Hope this helps.
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I have a 29 gallon biocube (not rimless) and this light is perfect. I have plate coral, sps, lots of button polyps, candy coral, and frogspawn. I have had this light for a couple months and they are all thriving! I think it would rest on the rimless tank pretty well as long at the water level isn't too high, but I have never owned one so I'm not sure how close the water would be to the light. Before I bought this I had the HQI metal halide bulb and had to clean the tank walls constantly because of so much algae growth, and I hated the color it put out. Now my tank stays super clean and I have no algae problems at all and I love being able to change the color however I want. Hope this helped! I have a 29 gallon biocube (not rimless) and this light is perfect. I have plate coral, sps, lots of button polyps, candy coral, and frogspawn. I have had this light for a couple months and they are all thriving! I think it would rest on the rimless tank pretty well as long at the water level isn't too high, but I have never owned one so I'm not sure how close the water would be to the light. Before I bought this I had the HQI metal halide bulb and had to clean the tank walls constantly because of so much algae growth, and I hated the color it put out. Now my tank stays super clean and I... » Read More I have a 29 gallon biocube (not rimless) and this light is perfect. I have plate coral, sps, lots of button polyps, candy coral, and frogspawn. I have had this light for a couple months and they are all thriving! I think it would rest on the rimless tank pretty well as long at the water level isn't too high, but I have never owned one so I'm not sure how close the water would be to the light. Before I bought this I had the HQI metal halide bulb and had to clean the tank walls constantly because of so much algae growth, and I hated the color it put out. Now my tank stays super clean and I have no algae problems at all and I love being able to change the color however I want. Hope this helped! « Show Less
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Nothing grows in my tank because of low light, regardless of this great substrate. Low light doesn't grow plants. This substrate isn't magical. I've never had algae to begin with, though. If you have a problem with it currently, then you may still have that problem after changing your substrate. This wont "create" algae problems, but it wont solve them either.
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Mine is a 55 gallon with African Aggressive. I think it works great. It is slightly shorter than the tank but lights it nicely. I really like the 'moon light'.
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This light does VERY well, I have dwarf grass, moneywort, telanthera (think that is how it is spelled) among others that require high light and they thrive with this light. I say start with 1 and see how it goes, no matter how much light you have you will always want a c02 system as it really is a requirement for the plants just like food is for your fish so keep that in mind as well if you want a really gorgeous planted tank!
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I have this on a 20 gallon tank and after acclimating the frags to the light, I have montipora growing about 5" from the surface. But acros or really high light corals, no way. Get a quad t5 ho or a dimmable Evergrow from ebay.
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It should work perfectly fine for a refugium. I use it as the sole light on a 10 gallon planted and it's pretty awesome.
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In my opinion yes it would be to large for a 5 gallon tank. They make a smaller light meant for 5g tanks. I have this light on a tall 10g half moon.
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I am running this on my 21" deep 55 gallon, with low to medium light plants. Since installing this light in February, my plants have taken off enormously. I have vals and amazon swords that I thought would never grow very well that have exploded in growth over the last couple months. I would not recommend a single strip for high light plants, but I have had a great amount of success with low and medium light plants, more than I had ever had with my T8 set up.
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I'm using one of these with my 10 gallon, 3 lights installed, two white, one red. I have java fern, java moss, vallisneria corkscrew, and two types of anubias & everything is growing extremely well under these lights! However, If you're trying to grow any groundcover (dwarf hair grass or dwarf baby tears) I have had zero luck getting that to grow at all. (I should mention it's a low tech tank, I don't use any Co2, but I do have lots of cherry shrimp generating fertilizer) Overall, I'm really happy with this light set-up.