Watch This Before Buying LED Lights for a Planted Tank!

Lighting is essential to every planted tank, and picking the right one is just as important. It can be overwhelming with the amount of information that can be found while shopping for LED lights. This guide will go through everything you need to know to be informed when buying an LED light for your planted aquarium!

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[IndoorEcosystem]

The best video on YouTube about aquarium lighting! Hands down! 🤩

[lurklingX]

this was an amazing speedrun on lights and specs. like WOAH. you kept a fast pace and barely took a breath. all great stuff for anyone to know!!

[AquaJoyClub]

4K Solitaire! hahaha - what a great and comprehensive breakdown of aquarium lights. Definitely learned a lot from this one! Happy New Year~

[danielcaridad]

Damn how this channel so good yet so underground yet. Bro can't keep being this underrated

[altec]

I just bought 3 t8 led lights with different spectrum. Shotgun effect. Works great so far

[Aswanth_ks_]

Again great video and i took a few months to buy a light for my high tech tank . I did so many research and i asked so many people . If you upload this video few months before i didn't waste few months on research😅

[Lazar.]

You should be interested in Skylight lamps and their latest Hyperbar model. Currently, these are probably the best lamps for reasonable money with the most extensive application.

[Sinserg]

Yeah lighting is extremely important, people need to research their plants to make sure they can meet the plants light requirements, I didn't do it when I started growing aquarium plants and I killed a bunch of plants. 🙃

[BigBassti]

Hi! I saw you using the Fluval Flex Aquarium. Do you have a good recommendation for a replacement LED better for plants which fits under the hood of the aquarium?

[dollin]

What are those "side skirts" on the chihiros light at 0:45 ? did you make that yourself to direct the light? Ive been using towels to cover my lights and ive been looking for a more escentric option.

[everennui]

Blue light can slow plant stretching.

Great video! Thank you. I would like to try again at a planted tank and am doing a lot of research before I start.

I actually have a SpotOn PAR meter for my garden, but I'm not sure how I would use it with the water... :/

Is there a place that has a database for each individual plant's DLI?

[timothy_b]

Md fish tanks has used 20w 6500k floodlights. Was wondering what you thought about something like that

[LinfeiShen]

This is amazing!! I have a 15 in tank but the chihiro light that I got is 10 in because the next size is 16 inches…. is that enough? I want to have a planted tank THANK U

[ToughTrainerK]

Oh cool you from Canada as well

I just started looking around for a light for my three 10gal shrimp tank setup.. I'm going to turn the tanks and set it up long next to each other so I got roughly 30" wide to find a light to cover all 3 ... too brands, too confusing lol.. plus seen reviews on Amazon saying light like hygger or nicrew crapped out within a year ... I check out Barrina t5 led as well

Most likely just gonna do moss and maybe a couple low light.. would be cool to get red rotala but probably need a higher quality of life

[cindywood]

I have a hood on my aquarium so what do you think about a submersible LED light? It's from Seaqura And it's seven watts. It has a timer and adjustable brightness. It has three color settings... White green red and blue, white, red and green or just blue. I do have low light plants and they list the ones that I have. It has suction cups so I can supposedly attach it underneath my hood also. What are your thoughts?

[kevinhoang]

Needed info on light sizing to tank and couldn't find any. Ordered light. Video pops up. Now i have to return the light 🤦🤦

[Perfumery_by_Sabin]

My light is bigger by like 2-4 inches on each side and is what I got for my 35gal cube but I’m using it on my 10gal first time aquascape

[enigma]

These same spectrums are in us as well... Everything made of atoms... That's why we use rings, color stones in astrology etc

Anyways the main base of creation is the apung vibrantions called

[wkunique]

you didn't say the most important thing: the best light which is sunlight. there are such excellent LEDs on the market that meet the requirements of D50 D65 and are 99% compatible with daylight. with an excellent color rendering index, our fish, plants and the entire decor. They do not need any additional color channels that only spoil their spectrum. Yes, we have to build such a lamp ourselves, but the construction costs do not exceed the purchase of these most expensive factory models, and they leave them behind by years great.

[DiggingRob]

Great video…..I take it you do video editing for a living 😂