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Marineland LED lights - John got me to buy these
By: thekev1042 Date: January 27, 2015, 7:56 pm
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OK, so I'm setting up a 125 gallon tank. The tank comes with the
stand, tank, tops, power head, 30 gallon sump tank, pump and
plumbing...for a damn good price. The problem I am running into
is finding the proper lighting. I've wanted to go with
LED's....they are so ridiculously overpriced. So I started
searching online. I came across the Marineland LED Single Light
fixture...I was hesitant at first because I felt like Marineland
was a cheap brown sp I looked on youtube to see what the lights
looked like in a big tank...I saw a video entitled 240 gallon
Marineland LED African Cichlid overhaul...low and behold, John
is doing the vid...yep..shocking another john video but well
worth the watch...these bad boys are going to look SICK in my
125.
Give it a watch folks. Dr. Foster Smith has them reasonably
priced.
HTML http://youtu.be/2YiYh3NEbIM
HTML http://youtu.be/2YiYh3NEbIM
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Re: Marineland LED lights - John got me to buy these
By: mrk13p Date: January 27, 2015, 11:01 pm
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i have the double bright and marine capable and the marine one
is so much brighter and whiter than the double bright. In the
video, I believe JOhn is using the marine capable also. this
unit is a lot more. I dont think that the single will be enough
for your tank. i moved my double bright from my 150 to my 75 and
now use my marine capable on the 150
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Re: Marineland LED lights - John got me to buy these
By: Methodical Date: March 5, 2015, 12:40 pm
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So, how are those lights on the 125?
I'm looking, too, but think I will need 4x36 to get even
lighting. As you can see in his video it's dark in the front
part of the tank using singles in the middle. In my old setup,
I had to use 4 fluorescent lights to get the proper coverage or
use them for specific light, such as front lighting or
backlighting only. Again, I don't think single strip down the
middle will provide the coverage I need or want. When I settle
on the ones I want, I will buy 2 and see how they look.
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