I have total 80 watts of 2 lights in combination of Power-GLo and Aqua Glo. I need minimum 120 watts for my 60 Gallon planted fish tank. I am short by 40 watts, Can I add 48" Single Bright LED light? And what is the total watts for 48-Inch single...
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It's really hard to speak in terms of "watts" when addressing LEDs. It always comes down to lumens. I have the 24-36 Inch Marineland light and it keeps my moss balls quite healthy. This is due to the Blue light providing the specific wavelength required for vegetative growth. Rather than going forward in terms of "watts", calculate the lumens generated by the 120 watt you're told you need...then calculate the lumens generated by the lights you have and fill in the blanks with add-on modules.
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The 6500k spectrum is correct for plant growth, but the light level will be insufficient unless your tank is extremely short. You would be better off getting either the marineland double bright, the marineland plant light, or the finnex fugue ray 2.
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My husband installed it and he said he put regular size in it, 70 watts if you can't figure it out, take the light to lowes or walmart and ask them. Or it might be on the box or instructions somewhere
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I think you need bigger one or buy two of this. this LED covers my 55 gal tank OK, but I wish it could be brighter,
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The best information I can find is the LED string is about 1.5 Watts/ft.(4.8 W/m) So if you add 125 ft. it will use 180 watts. Looks like you will need a larger power supply or break your lights up into multiple circuits with smaller power supplies. 60 Watts will only carry about 40 ft. of LEDs.
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Well, the great thing about this light is, it can be adjusted. You can adjust the light spectrum to your liking as well as, the light intensity. For that size tank all you would have to do is have the light intensity not so high. Overall, I think it'll be just fine for that size tank. This is a great lightning system and so far I love how it looks on my tank, which is a 20 gallon tall tank. Hope this helped. :)
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Hi Jennifer. I think 1 light should be good enough. I have a 150G 5x2x2 feet and I have 2 lights and it looks good. Make sure that you hang the light about 12" above the water level so it has good coverage and doesn't bleach the corals. I turned mines to 60% on both blue and white and some of my corals were bleaching badly. I then reduced it down to around 40% for both and the color return slowly and my frogspawn is loving it. Good luck.
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Note the minimum wattage (60w). If you are trying to switch a single LED light it is almost certainly lower than this figure. I tried this with a "60 watt equivalent" LED which actually consumes 9 watts and it was unreliable and sometimes flickered when "off".
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Hello Bill, I'm not familiar with Glo Fish...I have Gold Fish and they shine very bright under the LED lighting. Hope this helps.
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I have the 24" light on a 29 gal tank which is also 30" long. It sits on my glass versa top on legs about an inch tall. Provides great light - enough to grow plants and lots if algae. The moonlights are neat ! I think you can use the 24" and save some money unless you need the 30" light to rest on the sides of the tank. The LED lights are the best !
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There are a total of 15 LEDs inside the day white tube included in the package. My kill-a-watt meter read 5.0 watts power consumption for the whole fixture. It comes down to about 0.3W per LED. I cannot find any detail spec of the LEDs on the manufacturer website. The word "BG15-15LED-V03-HS" is printed on the LED circuit strip but no info could be found by google it. My best guess is the LEDs are about 6000-7000K, by comparing it to my other aquarium LEDs I have. The included day white tube is bright enough to light up any tanks no more than 16 inch deep but you definitely need 2 more tubes or build your own LED tube if it is for a planted tank.
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My 24 inch long is exactly 24 inch , I have a 55 gallon corner aquarium and it looks incredible, I do run 3 bulbs in it , the blue colored light for it is great and the night time light is perfect for fish , I would get 48 inch if it fits on your glass . 2 24 's would not look neat to me on top
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Depends on how bright you'd like it. I have a 45 gallon and considering an additional light. On a side note, half of the blue bulbs stopped working less than 6 months in.
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On the 36" each bulb is rated at 39 watts. So the 4 bulb fixture is a total of 156 watts. Dont get to hung up on watts per gallon per say. It does matter, but look into PAR more importantly. With my 36" I have no problem growing anything. (SPS, LPS, etc...)
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This would really depend on the type of tank you are planning. For a Fish Only style tank, two of the Pro LED Strips would give decent light coverage. For "low" light requiring corals you would want at least 4 strips. One power supply (sold separately) can run two of the 36"L strips with a splitter cable (sold separately).
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If you have an all glass top you could get a 24, though it wouldn't be stable sitting there. Assuming you have an open tank, you can either get a 30, or 2 12" lights. The 2 12s would certainly be more costly, but might give you more control over the light output.
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Im running it on 75Gal (21" deep) I get low light at the substrate at best. I've said before to get medium light I would need 4 of these on my tank.