Lighting options

[TBout86]

I’m pulling the trigger on a 130 gallon Waterbox shortly, but looking for lighting suggestions.
I’m only going to have anubias, assorted ferns, maybe see how an Amazon sword goes.
This will a sand substrate, with wood, and rock.
Being 60” wide, and 25” deep creates some challenges in my eyes.
I would love to use the aqua aluminanation freshwater series on this tank and have the flexible arm mounts on back side of tank. However I feel like I would be wasting money due to having only low light plants where these lights are so powerful.
any suggestions?

 

[Oughtsix]

There is nothing wrong with using high output lights with low light plants. You might find that you want to add some more exotic plants that require higher light levels in the future and you won't need to replace your lighting.

 

[Tj203]

You can also dim them. I have been looking at light and the lominie asta 120 is a nice light especially for the money. I am going to buy the popbloom t40+ but they have a few options and are very strong and cheep. My tank is 96 x 48 so I need a lot of lights, so I need to find some cost effective options. And I am still almost $1000 in and that could have been $4000-6000 for big name brand lights. I know the popbloom will grow anything you want.