Hi! Great info on options for low light!

thank you for all the great info! I really appreciate it

very informative,just earned a subs. keep it up !

I love when my sub channels post early morning weekend videos.. gets my day started the right way! On the heat of the le floodlights.. the huge heat sink on the back of the light does very well at absorbing the heat and keeps the front facing portion cool to the touch allowing you to sit it directly on top of your glass. You can even sit it on the plastic/glass combo hoods wo melting the plastic. Ithe hear sing doesn’t get so hot that you can’t take it off and sit it on something else while maintaining your tank but it is just slightly hotter then you want to hold in your hand. It won’t burn you but does get pretty warm. I did enjoy you following up on my take on the coloring of the light not being very present although I will admit it’s starting to grow on me a little. It’s really not that far off from appearance then a fluval 2.0 but for some reason it does seem a lot less pleasing in coloring. I’m really wish they would just pop a couple blues in the chip. I’m currently running the le with a cheap led light set on the moonlight setting. The combo really makes sharpens up the appearance of the tank. I run the le in the back with the moon lighting led in the front since the blues always make the colors in the fish pop. I thinking I might actually post a video on it cause when it comes to cheap lighting I think this is a great way to go. I paid $23 for a 50w lepower and the regular tank led is like a $8 light on Amazon. Around $30 in total cost and I’m getting deep penetration in my corner hex. It’s non co2 but I am dosing flourish, excel and occasionally potassium when I can find it. I don’t know why the single biggest fertilizer that doesn’t come from tap water or most planted substrates is so hard to find! It should be the minimum that anyone uses. I can find iron all day which is worthless to me using a laterite based substrate and tap water. Quick tip to those who think they need to dose iron in their planted tanks.. you don’t. There is plenty in every basic fertilizer mix (like flourish) you just have to stop trying to dose right after a water change.. your water conditioner removes heavy metals from your tap! Don’t dose till 24-36h after water changes and you can stop buying iron supplements and just use basic fertilizers. I know many who do a water change then fertilize right after.. you may as well be pouring the fertilizer down the sink drain.

Great information on low light options.

Stopping by to say hi. Saw your channel pulled up on Nimmin Live. Keep up the great work!

Thank you for this helpful video 😀👍

Thank you this was immensely useful, I’m all about the low tech, I have two tanks (6 & 8g) that have plants and no light because they are in a window and have some direct sunlight for a few hours, but I recently got a 28g and I has no direct sunlight at all, planing just to get a clam light fixture and a fluorescent bulb on it and see if my plants are fine with it! Thank you so much!

Great vid. I have only used incandescent grow bulbs and T-5 fixtures. I'm to old school but it was nearly twenty years ago too and T-5s were the advanced thing then.

Do you use any of these options or have used? Any other low light option you use I haven't mentioned? Leave a comment and let us know. Aquarium Lighting Guide: bit.ly/2INYuMA

i got the beams work and it does a great job on my 30 liter

Good information

Awesome Chung great to see you break it down like that..I used cfl’s for a while 😊. I’m slowly converting to leds. I’m not sure if your familiar with Fishman? He builds custom leds out of higher end strip lighting and they grow plants really nicely. He also does a saltwater version and can actually grow corals.

I'm running two Beamswork fullspec lights on my 60gal and they seem to be doing well. 22" down to my s. Repens and they have new growth! I thought I'd need expensive lights with my water depth but that was not the case. Keep up the good work Chung👍

I have the 450-550 beamswork on my 30 liter nano and it works very well

The water box is awesome.. Please make more videos hope you are doing well! We all miss you! Please just say hi if you alrite!

Hi, thanks for all the information! What about full spectrum light bulb for 4-5 gallon planted tank,with clip/stand light? And what power will be enough?

I have a 30cm cube aquarium and i have bought 2 nicrew 6w lights. Where they take up so much space on the tank, I can't have a HOB filter, but at least I have well dispersed light going through the aquarium getting everywhere letting my carpeting plants grow really well :) One of them was £16 and other was £14 with damaged packaging, no difference in them.

Great information first of all. I use Beamswork DA models. They only have the white and blue LEDs but they're 6500k. They have 5 rows of LEDs versus the 3 rows of the F-spec models as well. I also use the Current USA Satellite Plus which is not the cheapest and not the high end model which is the Plus Pro I believe. I'm just curious if I should still be considering these fixtures low light or if they are in fact medium light. That would be great to know and open up a lot more plants for me to be able to grow in my tanks.

Are T8 flourescent lights any good for plants I have a 3ft tank with a 30w T8 I'm only starting aquascaping

I'm planning an aquarium/riparium with large low-light plants rooting at the top, and I may make my own pendant lights with foil on the inside and daylight leds. Btw, from what I've been able to learn so far, low-light plants don't really seem to care as much about color spectrum as the high-light plants do, just so long as you're giving them enough light to survive.

I love Finnex Stingrays. Never thought about adding 1 or 2 more. Would that push a tank into the medium-high range?

So I have a single T8 hood you know the deal on a 30 gallon long tank. Tank is 16" deep substrate is a soil capped with small gravel about 3-4 inches high. I've got some Vals, some Java and some Moneywort as a wildcard addition. I haven't considered lighting too much in the setup, so I bought a 24" Floramax by Aqueon, 17 Watts. Only the one bulb. I'd like to add more plants (a lot more). Do you think the one bulb is enough or should I build myself a cover and run some better lights? Can't pull any specs on the light itself anywhere so it's hard for me to get a good idea.

Whats the best for a 10 gallon that im gonna try to grow some dwarf hairgrass in thanks!!

A while back I bought a 2550lm 30W LED flood light to replace my 15W T8 above my 14 gallon, thinking it would fulfill high light requirements. You're the first one to confirm my observations, namely, that it isn't even enough for medium. My dwarf hairgrass started carpeting (very slowly I might add) but my Monte Carlo still doesn't grow properly after several months of using that light. This is what made me realize that the visible intensity doesn't mean anything for plant growth, and the tropica lumen/liter guideline is not only misleading, but completely misguided.

Great info if I decide to create a patio or outdoor tank, would these plant do well since it will use the Sun for a few hours?

what about lights that come in aquarium kits like topfin? will they work?

The BeamsWorks LED light I got only comes with blue and white lights; will it still grow low tech plants?

I used two 14 w cfl bulbs , got better results my plants are hygrophila polysperma , bacomba crypt, bacopa, vallisneria

I have a quick question I’m starting a 75 gallon planted tank next weekend would you start with RO or tap water

My 55g corner tank came with 3.2 watts light. Is that enough for planted tank ?

Can the Fluval Aquasky 2.0 be put on a physical timer? I don't want to bother with an app.

Hi, I had a seawater aqua with ati hybrid (4 t5’s 54 w x 3 leds 75 w). This gives a par from 700 to 80 at the bottom. I want to make a iwugami scape. Can I use the lighting (reduced) to my aquarium and which t5’s to use and what colour setting of the leds? Everything (t5’s, leds) are dimmable and leds can be programmed (blue, white, violet). Aquarium is 3 meter long and 60cm high and deep. 2 fixtures ati hybrid are used.

Rope light also works well for 20G tanks. Its quite cheap at

I have these led bulb 💡 lights that I use I was wondering if it helps or it makes things worst cause my Java fern keep dying n not reproducing

There is a LED E27 with a 6000k lumen 3watt cool white light. Thought of buying it for my 45 cm tank. Is it bright enough for low tech plants.

I’m using a fluval aqua sky on a low light planted tank and can’t keep the algae away! What levels should I set my lights to? 50% 75%??

Hi, how about a normal cheap led light + plant growth light (pink) ?

Will red and blue led lights work for low tech plants? I got it for free but I don't know if its for aquarium only or for plants as well..

Hey awesome videos I'm new to the Hobby I have a hexagon 80 gallon tank it measures height about 20 in and with from corner of corner would be a total of 20 and a 1/2 half inch.. been seen all your videos on lightning great info I purchase a 24/7 planted finnex a light kL-20A and have it on 16hr like you said I think you said but haven't seen much of growth on my Cuba's iam start drying method do you think my light is good for my tank????

How much watt of led should I use for 7 gallon tank low tech to medium

Does adding 2 3000k light work to add it to 6000k or each one has to be 6000k

I have the USA current light on my 40 breeder, I don’t think it’s enough for a tank that size. Also the light options are cool but doesn’t work very well, I’ve tried to use various setting and it always goes back to flickering

Actually I have a question: Considering grow rooms for terrestrial plants often use more red light than blue, and considering your typical freshwater tank uses plants that don't grow that deep in the water to attenuate the reds, would they still not be better with more red than blue even though that might ruin the aesthetic of the tank?

I am having an 10 gallon small tank can please suggest me about the watts i need to use

Ive bought tetra 54 litres with built-in 10w led light. Is this enough ?

I use the aqueon optibright +

Would a 24 inch Stingray fit a 23.6 inch UNS Rimless tank?

I'm using the 6 pack of 6500k LEDs from Amazon that was $39 I am using four of them on a 5ft tank and co2 injection my plants are thickkkkkk

Would these lights be safe for human eyes, even with a lot of exposure ?

Im gonna try 2x 36 watt t8 led bulbs over my low light tank, they got around 1800 lumens each, hopefully its gonna be enugh for swords, crypts, anubias, java ferns etc ^^ I'll let u know in a month or so if it works :D

Those cheap lights are never "6000K". More like half that. I would like to see the best low cost HI LIGHT level LED. As you know I have a 240G thats 8x2x2. Right now all I use is big window and a shop light with two 40 watt grow fluorescents. So,how to one day replace the fluorescent with at least 6' of LED fixture that can reach the bottom of the tank? How about combination of a true grow LED to bring out colors,and a back cheap shop LED to add intensity? Back when I would use 2 shop lights on a 100g..4 40 watt bulbs. 2 were grow,and the other 2 daylight alternating. So, my needs aren't nano tank lighting using a bed nightstand pedestal light on 10 gallons....whats the alternative to $400-600 of Fluval lighting for large aquariums on a budget?

Don’t bother with LED’s unless you are willing to invest in multiple units, or wish to go all out from the start. Grab a dual or quad t5 fixture for $60/$120 respectively and be done with it. The bulbs are $5 a piece which you’ll replace once a year. Replacing led bulbs are not nearly as simple or cheap. Despite him practically mocking the community of aquarists who like seeing a built in timer and blue night lighting cycles on their lights, it’s really these features that makes the LED special. The power saved is minimal compared to t5 or cfl bulbs, and the light intensity is probably worse per dollar.

Not having much finding a light for a 5g

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