Marineland LED's

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boogieman77

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Looking very seriously into installing these on my 65 gallon reef tank. Does anyone have any experience with these and will one set of them at 34 1/2 inches be enough lighting? Right now I have the marineland t5 dual bulbs combined together set of 3 for a total of 6 bulbs(each is 96 watts) I saw them in a reef tank and fell in love with them but I want to know if my corals will make it with them. Mainly brains and one long tentical coral. Toadstool and odds and ends. I am looking for input cause these look alot better and really love the effect they give.
 
1snapple

1snapple

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What fixture? The normal or the reef brights? and it may work for the hammer but probably not the LTA, marineland only uses 1w LEDs.
 
2quills

2quills

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They can handle softies up to 18" depths. Maybe some lps in the upper portions of the tank. That's about it. I'd save the money and put it towards something more capable of keeping what you have. Don't let marinelands marketing tactics steal your money and leave you disappointed. JMO
 
king_neptune

king_neptune

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They use 1watt LED's. And not only that...they have so few of them, that your wasting your money. You might as well go get a couple PC's from home depot and put them over your tank. I had a 120bulb system w/1watt LED's was bright, but honestly complete crap compared to the sweet LED array I built myself.
 
king_neptune

king_neptune

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I just priced out some DIY for you. Check out rapid LED, they sell kits or stand alone parts. Between them and parts from home depot, you could do your tank for around $500-600 and have something that would blow the socks off anything from marine land. Or you could look into plasma lighting, a single plasma light would do your tank, and cost around $500. You wont save as much as running off LED's, but you will have superior light...and still be far cheaper than MH.
 
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