I wanted a kickass set of LEDS for my 90g african cichlid tank that is a work in progress. They are currently in a 75g with stock fluorescent lamps. They arent bad, but I'm sick of replacing dull bulbs every 6 months.
I was leaning towards beamswork until I found the marineland double brights (48-60") on amazon for $105 w/ free shipping.
Heres me and my buddy Oswald looking the package over for damage since the outer box looked like UPS used it for target practice. Lol. All was well.
Decided to test them out on the 75g. Pardon the mess and the taboo use of air driven filters. Lol. Ive stripped all the good equipment off this tank and have many sponge/box filters in here which will help seed the sump in my 90g during the switch. Media bags floating and canister hoses dangling. Not so easy on the eyes i know.
Heres the before picture. Not impressive. 6500k GE 17 watts. 2 18" fixtures
And after.
The shimmering effect is very pronounced. The light refracts and dances all over the bottom of the tank. Which I love.
Only complaint is that some light escspes and illuminates the walls. This will be a non issue when I build my canopy.
The moon lights arent as good as I had hoped, most reviews on amazon complained of them being too bright. This is not the case.
I elected to have a seperate fixture for moon lights and run the marinelands only a few hours a day for daylight. Im almost never home, and my house has lots of ambient light from the windows. No plants in the tank either. Hopefully the marinelands will last many years with the little use they'll see
This is not a picture of deep space from thr hubble telescope. These are thr marineland moon lights.
This is my DIY moon light setup made from a 16 foot blue LED exterior rope light string from walmart.
Sent from my SCH-R950 using MonsterAquariaNetwork App
I was leaning towards beamswork until I found the marineland double brights (48-60") on amazon for $105 w/ free shipping.
Heres me and my buddy Oswald looking the package over for damage since the outer box looked like UPS used it for target practice. Lol. All was well.
Decided to test them out on the 75g. Pardon the mess and the taboo use of air driven filters. Lol. Ive stripped all the good equipment off this tank and have many sponge/box filters in here which will help seed the sump in my 90g during the switch. Media bags floating and canister hoses dangling. Not so easy on the eyes i know.
Heres the before picture. Not impressive. 6500k GE 17 watts. 2 18" fixtures
And after.
The shimmering effect is very pronounced. The light refracts and dances all over the bottom of the tank. Which I love.
Only complaint is that some light escspes and illuminates the walls. This will be a non issue when I build my canopy.
The moon lights arent as good as I had hoped, most reviews on amazon complained of them being too bright. This is not the case.
I elected to have a seperate fixture for moon lights and run the marinelands only a few hours a day for daylight. Im almost never home, and my house has lots of ambient light from the windows. No plants in the tank either. Hopefully the marinelands will last many years with the little use they'll see
This is not a picture of deep space from thr hubble telescope. These are thr marineland moon lights.
This is my DIY moon light setup made from a 16 foot blue LED exterior rope light string from walmart.
Sent from my SCH-R950 using MonsterAquariaNetwork App
