There is a point that the beamswork affected my polys pattern, it washed out the polys color.
During under the beamswork light.
After two weeks with under the flourescent.
What do you use for lighting?
- Thread starter Cohazard
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During under the beamswork light.
After two weeks with under the flourescent.
Yes,it's colors definately are different depending on the lighting.
satellite plus. its amazing. i can create just about any color combo i want and the dynamic modes are breathtaking to watch. plus its easily brighter than the 4x36" T5's i have on the tank as well for my plants. only run the t5's for 7 hours of the day when im not home. leds are on almost all the time.
Do you think the satellite will work for a glass iron top?
I use the satellites as well. The customizable features are great allows you to play with the settings to get the perfect match with the substrate and the lights are well made. Cant tell you how many times they've fallen into the tank, and been dropped.
$25.99 30.8' fully adjustabele color l.e.d. strips w/remote
We use current LEDs in our fish room as our standard lighting. Some are truelumen pro strips (screw mounted above the tank) and some are the base satellite freshwater lights. These are both simple general purpose freshwater lights. Personally, I like them mainly because of the price point and the ability to daisy chain them with ease. With as many tanks as we have, the PLUS lights are too expensive for general purpose lighting, though we do have one PLUS fixture and it's features are fun.
Two of the base lights on a standard shallow tank (e.g. 20L, 33L) will grow low light plants like Anubias and floating plants like foxtail or duckweed just fine. One light will maintain these plants in these shallow tanks. Single strips will grow algae no problem even in a deeper tank (24 inches).
We also have a Finnex monster ray that was a xmas present... this light is nice over fish with lots of reds. I imagine over a red bichir tank it would make the color of the substrate pop pop pop! If you are into that LOL
We have a current orbit marine in the mail right now... we've heard it's nice over fish with a lot of blues, so we're going to give that a try... and if we like it, that's one less pro strip we have to buy for the 5gallon rack we've been working on.
Our bichirs do not appreciate the high light either, but they are provided with plenty of hiding spots to compensate. The base-lights are a single row of LEDs, which provides close to full bottom coverage when the light is mounted close to the top of the tank, but that means there are lots of shadows near the surface, so there are plenty of shady spots to retreat to in all of our tanks.
how do you mount them on the tank? I need to put something on top of the tank lids. Egg crate and then set the light on top? Also what type of fixutre did you decide to get?
