I've used a laundry list of various lights in my fuges - most, drive me nuts.... desk lamps rust and the bulbs get hot and encrust with salt creep.... Many aren't bright enough, or don't light up the whole area, and some just don't fit under my tank!! (I've got way too much crap under there already :blah: :blah: ) haha
So, recently on a late night ebay binge I decided it was time to get me one of thes nifty LED flood lights from China I've been seeing around!! My macro was doing great under the 21W PAR38 LEDs I use in my frag tank until I had to move it out due to the urchin I added, and has been just hanging on under this old plant grow light in the sump of my main tank for the past few months, limping along (its about a 12W led I think)
(this is my old light, also chinese in origin)
My house plants did great under this red/blue/orange spectrum light, but the macro was just sucking - staying alive, but not growing anywhere. Before I used this light I was also using an old desk lamp that grew cheato well enough, but really didn't "light up my life" like I really wanted...
So, thanks to ebay I acquired this guy - 20W LED outdoor flood light (my husband says this has to the biggest LED chip he has ever seen, lol)... full enclosed, waterproofed, & powder coated :heh: :heh:
and a quick trip to lowe's netted me a replacement cord so I could plug it into the wall... got that all soldered in (sorry, was too excited to plug it in to get a pic of my expert electrical work :bolt: )
AND, we are in business!!
It's a fuge - impossible to take pics of under the stand!! lol so thats as good as it gets for now... instead, we will have to settle for macro growth shots....
This is gonna be my test macro to see how well it does under the new light - flame algae, day 1 -
It only took this algae a week or two to start getting red tips under my PAR38s before, so fingers crossed, I will see the same here so I can feel better about my late night ebay purchase
:cheer2:
So, recently on a late night ebay binge I decided it was time to get me one of thes nifty LED flood lights from China I've been seeing around!! My macro was doing great under the 21W PAR38 LEDs I use in my frag tank until I had to move it out due to the urchin I added, and has been just hanging on under this old plant grow light in the sump of my main tank for the past few months, limping along (its about a 12W led I think)
(this is my old light, also chinese in origin)
My house plants did great under this red/blue/orange spectrum light, but the macro was just sucking - staying alive, but not growing anywhere. Before I used this light I was also using an old desk lamp that grew cheato well enough, but really didn't "light up my life" like I really wanted...
So, thanks to ebay I acquired this guy - 20W LED outdoor flood light (my husband says this has to the biggest LED chip he has ever seen, lol)... full enclosed, waterproofed, & powder coated :heh: :heh:
and a quick trip to lowe's netted me a replacement cord so I could plug it into the wall... got that all soldered in (sorry, was too excited to plug it in to get a pic of my expert electrical work :bolt: )
AND, we are in business!!
It's a fuge - impossible to take pics of under the stand!! lol so thats as good as it gets for now... instead, we will have to settle for macro growth shots....
This is gonna be my test macro to see how well it does under the new light - flame algae, day 1 -
It only took this algae a week or two to start getting red tips under my PAR38s before, so fingers crossed, I will see the same here so I can feel better about my late night ebay purchase
:cheer2:
