reef led lights for planted tank

L190

L190

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Hi All,
I'm thinking of replacing my lights on my 125 gallon planted tank. The tank is 72" long which makes a pain to find the right lighting for it. I was wondering if anyone has run those led pendant lights for reef tanks on their planted tanks? If so, what are your experience with plant growth? What are your likes / dislikes?
 
L190

L190

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i have easy to grow plants right now but thinking of moving into harder to grow plants. In addition i want to make the tank pop more without spending an arm and a leg. I am thinking of getting this light from amazon. http://www.amazon.com/dp/VIPARSPECT/?tag=wafishbox-20 The spectrum doesn't look too bad. Another option would be the AI Prime HD which will allow me to dial in the light spectrum i want but it cost $225 each (need 3 for my tank). For the second option to be a reality i would need to turn in a lot of fish and plants to a LFS for me to get it.
 
L190

L190

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hmm interesting, wafishbox doesn't allow me to post the amazon link. It is the viparspectra full spectrum on amazon if you want to search for it
 
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Wenzoui

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Lol at that price I think you should go with sbreef fw lights. Much better spectrum but you just missed the 10% off deal. I also like bml lights if you can find them.
 
L190

L190

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Wenzoui said:
Lol at that price I think you should go with sbreef fw lights. Much better spectrum but you just missed the 10% off deal. I also like bml lights if you can find them.
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yeah if i had the cash i would go get the Sbreef lights. I don't think if i send the company tons of plants and fish they would give me those lights.
I think i'll have to try my luck with the viparspectra lights and see if that will work. It is the cheaper alternative out of all the choices.
 
clownie

clownie

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L190 said:
Hi All,
I'm thinking of replacing my lights on my 125 gallon planted tank. The tank is 72" long which makes a pain to find the right lighting for it. I was wondering if anyone has run those led pendant lights for reef tanks on their planted tanks? If so, what are your experience with plant growth? What are your likes / dislikes?
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I use one of those"china black box" LED units over my 60 gallon planted cube. Works great. I have been running it for about 8 months now. i had it left over from my old reef keeping days. It looks a lot like the light you're looking into except more blue spectrum lighting then red.
 
L190

L190

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clownie said:
I use one of those"china black box" LED units over my 60 gallon planted cube. Works great. I have been running it for about 8 months now. i had it left over from my old reef keeping days. It looks a lot like the light you're looking into except more blue spectrum lighting then red.
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do you have pictures of your tank? I plan to dial down the blues to avoid it being too blue
 
clownie

clownie

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L190 said:
do you have pictures of your tank? I plan to dial down the blues to avoid it being too blue
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clownie

clownie

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It's 55-3watt leds two channels about 20 blue, 17 10K , some reds and greens. Running white channel at about 60% and blues about 20.
 
L190

L190

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Thanks I just bought one and will decide if I want to use them to replace my current light
 
L190

L190

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Viparspectra hopefully it gives me the par I need and the light spread is pretty good. Not sure if par is the same with corals but the picture amazon has with par value looks pretty crazy
 
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