i use the marineland double brights as well. Two on my 300 with two power glo tubes. They look just fine.
Uh Oh. LED lighting a mistake?
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So you have a florescent light on this as well? Why did you do that? I'm going to play around with that tonight, bring the florescent's back in and see what the combo does. I did add in some seachem purigen last night but they are recharged packets. I'll check into that as well.
I considered LED lighting but all of my friends that have them have nothing nice to say about LEDs. I still want to try something different than my current lighting.
I use LEDs in combination with 10K T-5s and I like the look. I use different timers and the LEDs stay on longer and give a nice subdued effect/shimmer after the T-5s go out. But I only use 2 24" fixtures on a 6ft tank to light the center leaving the corners darker. Mess around with different combinations and find the look you like. LEDs by themselves are nice too IMO but in a tall tank you get a spot light effect which you might not like unless you have another form of lighting to fill in the gaps. Like I said mess around untill you get the effect you're after.
That's because LEDs can't put out the spectrum that fluorescent bulbs can, something to do with the phosphors in the bulb. To get even remotely close you'd have to mix white green red and blue LEDs. Anybody who expects LEDs to give off the color of fluorescents is in for a rude awakening.
My bad... I just realized I'm NOT using the Marineland Double Bright LED fixture lol...
I'm using the Marineland Reef Capable LED fixture which has 50 1 watt LED instead of 24 in the same space. Maybe that's the reason why I disagree with most people on this thread, I would imagine the Double Bright one designed for "freshwater" to be very dark for any tank over 75 gal.
This is mine:
While most reefers agree that it's not suitable for any but the smallest reef setups, I think it's an amazing investment for any freshwater tank.
I'm using the Marineland Reef Capable LED fixture which has 50 1 watt LED instead of 24 in the same space. Maybe that's the reason why I disagree with most people on this thread, I would imagine the Double Bright one designed for "freshwater" to be very dark for any tank over 75 gal.
This is mine:
While most reefers agree that it's not suitable for any but the smallest reef setups, I think it's an amazing investment for any freshwater tank.
It's attractive, but I prefer high output plant lights for really bringing out deep reds and whites, and even highlighting blues.
^ I don't think the OP was referring to light output. I think he was talking about the differences in color spectrum, and how certain colors look under LEDs lights vs fluorescents.
