Anyone running this on a deep tank. My 65 Gallon is 24" deep and has some low/medium light plants. Currently have 4 T8's that I would love to relplace
927753
Yes, my aquarium is also 24 deep, it provides good light all the way to the bottom. I have no problems with my hairgrass or my Glossostigma, which I couldn't get to grow with the t8's.
927754
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.
927755
Im running it on 75Gal (21" deep) I get low light at the substrate at best. I've said before to get medium light I would need 4 of these on my tank.
927756
I would imagine that you'd be ok with this light. I have one 48" fixture on my 75 and my stem plants grow 1/2" a day. Not quite as deep as yours but this light is pretty bright.
687412
I am running mine on a 120 Gal. tank which is also fully planted with no problem. 2 350's on a 75 Gal. would be an overkill in my opinion.
2261893
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.
1710941
I would say definitely not. I have the 36-48" single bright on a 3 ft tank, 30 gal. I feel the light is just adequate and I'm glad I didn't get the 24-36". The light doesn't spread out a lot either so I would think you would want to light full length of your tank with 2 x 36-48s. Even with that, growing plants will not be an option. Hope this helps. Larry
1097716
24 - 36 will fill the tank nicely. 18-24 will leave darker ends. I used this for about 1 hour and realized it's way too bright. Bought the Current brand instead. It's adjustable in brightness and color. My plants are doing just fine. So glad I made the switch.
1397111
the lowest setting is fine for my 15 gallon tall. I have 5 galaxy barbs, two albino cories cats, two amino shrimps, an otto catfish and a shit load of snails(Note: a bunch of moss cover my intake tube from time to time). But it depends on the fish you plan to get too. do your fish come from a place with fast moving water or slow? Since you already have a spare C4 and a tank just try it out. worse case you return the fish back.
505276
Get one of these (good enough for medium plant growth) plus a 48" Ray2 Daylight (much brighter colors and adds some additional light for that 90 gallon). I'm running this exact combo on my 72 bow front, and the daylight is a little too much to have on all the time for the loaches...
1707036
It depends on what you are using it to grow. For low light plants like java fern, anubius, crypts, vals, and some swords YES it will work in a tank that deep. But any medium to high light plants you will have to get 2 of these lights. Or get one planted + and one ray2.
1073406
i think 2 of hydor koralia 1500 is too much on the 55 gallon tank. i have a smallest one(550-600gph) on my 35 tank(fresh water), and the size(not power level) a kind of big on the tank, it will bother your view for the tank. i feeling too much stuff on my simple iwagumi tank.other thing is 2 of 1500 maybe too strong to running the water to messed up your plant or decorations. if you want to get 2 of those on it , small one is good enough .
2106617
I think that this would be a bit much for a 40 gallon tank. I would go for a lesser model. it works well on my 55 gallon tank but I would not go lower than that
2013257
I know next to nothing about growing flora in the aquarium except some BS I've read in forums. I have planted a low growing and tall growing pair of plants in my 29 high tank with the appropriate sized model of this light. It is a medium populated community tank and I do not use CO2. I do dose daily with Flourish Excel. My plants appear to be doing well and some new sprouts have developed and are growing. I will take a picture and post it in the user pictures portion.
1967387
I have a 37 gallons planted tank and it's working for me. I'm using all 3 light modules though. So you may want to consider doing the same thing.
1427477
I just bought one and it says for tanks up to 12 inches deep. I bought another one and I will return this one.
1595783
Yes it would. I have mine on a 10 gallon tank and the plants are doing great. I have several different types, vals, sprites, banana plants, java fern and crypts. I used it before this tank on a 6 gallon deep tank and it made the plants go nuts in it. I really like the Finnex lights, we have several, Just got a ray plant one for our 125 gal tank to go with a finnex ray II, and it looks so nice, the plants are taking off and their is so much more room on top now since we got rid of the big ol bulky T5 and T8's. Good luch!
384493
I have a 60 gallon and from what I have seen as long as you can maintain 80psi you should be fine. Hope this helps.
77192
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.
1923327
I have a 29 gallon and am barely getting by. Soft coral only, Some LPS,no Acans or SPS. I'm selling mine on eBay next week.Customer service is spotty at best.