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Suggestion's for suitable Led, low tech tank

Alex J

Alex J

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Hello all, looking for suggestion's for a suitable led clip on or over tank fitting for a 45x30x40cm low tech tank. I'm new to using led and although I have tried to find something both suitable and reasonably priced all I'v ended up with is a headache 😕. :lol: Thank's, Alex
 
Alex J said:
Hello all, looking for suggestion's for a suitable led clip on or over tank fitting for a 45x30x40cm low tech tank. I'm new to using led and although I have tried to find something both suitable and reasonably priced all I'v ended up with is a headache 😕. :lol: Thank's, Alex
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although i'm not confident in the spec, i used an aquael decolight on a low tech type tank before, and it worked; I believe its 11 watt 🙂

http://aquamarket.ie/product.php?id_product=566

also has a blue light on the same fixture!
 
Go for anything that gives you good overall coverage is around 6500K and above all else dimmable.
Try a search...there are a few threads with suggestions.
 
Hi Bex thanks for your reply. I see that you are using two of these in your tank , my tank is marginally shallower than yours at 30cm do you think it would be too bright in my tank?Also did you buy your's in the uk? as I can't seem to find a UK stockist , thanks again , Alex.
 
Hi Alex, I think they'd be fine over 30cm - the great thing is that you can dim them, so you have a lot of control over brightness. Your tank is wider than mine so I think you'd definitely need 2 otherwise you'd have some very shadowy corners (although you could plan and plant to work with that kind of light distribution) but 2 will give you plenty to work with. I also live in the UK but ordered mine from a french retailer, had no problems, delivery was tracked. You just need to use Google's translate page option - unless your french is good! Here's the link

http://aqualight-solution.com/2280-blau-nano-led-light-11-watts-eau-douce-blanche-8436036497156.html

One of the other members Parotet ended up using one on a 30cm cube, you can see the journal here

http://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/and-back-to-low-tech.32798/

Hope you find what you're looking for 🙂
 
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