Eco Bright LED versus Aquasky

[Fabio Perini]

Dear All,

I had bought some time ago one Eco Bright LED 9 watts for a 24"x12"x18" tank after I read an article from George Farmer about a low tech tank with mostly Crypts if I remember well, however, he was running two of them on the tank. My project stalled and sat in the loft for a while.
Now I'm ready to do it and need to get another light as this one is only 500 lumen which in at least 70 litres of water will only 7-lumen x litre which I don't think would be enough...
Any thoughts?
I was even thinking to mix it up with an Aquasky which has an output of 800-lumen, but I'm not sure whether it would make sense to use two different lights.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Fabio

 

[Fabio Perini]

Any kind souls wanting to share some wisdom?

Thanks!

 

[Matt @ ScapeEasy]

I also ruled out the ecobright as being under powereed. I went with the aquasky only and run it on full wack in my tank. I don't believe there is an issue with mixing two types of LED lights at all to get a bit more light into te tank. My only concern would be (other would need to confirm if I'm right here) that two low powered lights might struggle to get enough lumens down to the substrate e.g. for carpeting plants ...