Choosing new led lights
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Swampman
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I am not sure if Fluval make a Performance LED for Marine tanks. If they do take a good look at it. I have fresh water tanks and have them on both tanks. A little expensive but at least in fresh water the plants grow like mad.
The fluval lights are crap for sw, no offense as I'm sure they do work great for plants
. They under drive the LEDs, running them at less than a watt each. I'd rather get a kessil or maxspect razr for a little more money and have a controllable light.Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice
Swampman
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Know that you mentioned it I did hear that the spectrum of the Fluval is not good for marine tanks. I remember the names that you just said. My wife has orchids and African violets and she has leds made just for plants. A buddy of mine has a Aquaponic grow shop. He has some great and expensive less. Again not good for fish.
Swampman
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NyReefer. Think about this before you buy. Are you ever going to dim the lights on your aquarium?. I have a switch to just put on blue leds. I used it when I first got the lights. But-now I just shut off the lights. I am a person that goes more for quality. Just another idea.
Sniperhank
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Actually, being able to change the intensity of lighting over a reef tank is very important. It takes time to acclimate corals to new lighting. Some corals can't tolerate intense lighting that others require to simply survive. LEDs penetrate water very effectively, making it very important to acclimate corals to your lighting. A simple dimmer on a unit such as this makes it quite important. Other lighting systems have made their own solutions to this, an example would be the 'acclimation mode' that can be turned on for Ecotech's Radions where you can tell them how long you want to acclimate for and what intensity % you want to start out on as it slowly works its way back up to where you normal lighting schedule is.
mr_X
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You can get this fixture cheaper, and it's not bad quality, and YES, a dimmable unit is definitely preferred.
165W Dimmable Full Spectrum LED Aquarium Light Marine Reef Coral Fish Tank Lamp | eBay
That said, I do like the Kessil with the goose neck mount.
It's all a matter of what options you want and what you want to spend.
Swampman
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Interesting. As you can see I am a fresh water keeper. But always interested in learning. There is an Aquarium store that has drop lights for there tanks. They said they are programable. They also have a tank that has the sun going up and down. I saw that on the tv show Tanked. Maybe you can tell me. I have read a book on Marine tanks. In that book they had just like fresh water you need to cycle the tank. Now I just set up a new fresh tank and I am cycling it now. I use a tank cycler with a few fish. When Tanks does it they set the whole tank up and add fish right away. Granted they are not using live rock or coral. But still they must lose a lot of fish. Some of those fish are very expensive. Is that program true? Thanks Jeff
Interesting. As you can see I am a fresh water keeper. But always interested in learning. There is an Aquarium store that has drop lights for there tanks. They said they are programable. They also have a tank that has the sun going up and down. I saw that on the tv show Tanked. Maybe you can tell me. I have read a book on Marine tanks. In that book they had just like fresh water you need to cycle the tank. Now I just set up a new fresh tank and I am cycling it now. I use a tank cycler with a few fish. When Tanks does it they set the whole tank up and add fish right away. Granted they are not using live rock or coral. But still they must lose a lot of fish. Some of those fish are very expensive. Is that program true? Thanks Jeff
mr_X
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It's not cool to do a fish in cycle, because you are torturing the fish, subjecting them to ammonia, which is poison. Tanked are bozos that do lose a lot of fish.
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Swampman
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i thought so
BigRedsReefs10
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It's dimmable, and no because it's dimmable
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mr_X
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Yes, you could use a plant hanger and hang it from the wall behind, or fasten something to the stand...
croixfries36
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Just make an "L" shaped bracket mount one side on wall. And have the other pointing to the middle of the tank and suspend it from there works great IMO. Good luck! Reef happy
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