Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 4:28 pm Post subject: Re: COB Lights for High Tech Planted Aquarium
Those lights are highly inefficient. 6W lights are churning out 500lumens, which is close to 83lumen/Watt. While 8 of those will make around 4000lumens, which is a decent enough light output, there are plenty of LEDs out there with the same output but lesser consumption. Even the cheap LEDs are running 110lumen/Watt these days. However, you will have to go the DIY route with them.
A lot also depends upon what plants you plan on growing, CO2 and dosing regime.
Watching this thread. I'm also looking for lighting solutions.
Below is Tank dimension -
Length - 85cm
height - 50cm
Width - 15 cm (Narrow to fit into a showcase)
@ashwin1224 Curious to know the LEDs that run 110lumen/watt, Please do share if you come across any links.
I couldnt find any reliable sources with 110lumen/watt LED selling locally(aliexpress has a lot of them), but do check out my thread :Simple high quality LED light for a planted tank, you might find it interesting.
I have been using 200W of the same lighting on my 125G, 20inch deep tank and I have absolutely no complaints with the light. It is a low tech no CO2 tank, and the plants are doing really good, Saggittaria Subulata has started to carpet and I have an overflow of valisneria spiralis.
I would suggest you to use around 2800 Lumens of lighting, which you can achieve with this: 2x 14W LED
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