Reef Capable LED Lighting System
With so many on offer these days, it is great to have a name you can trust. This item is certainly that and will be a perfect buy. The distributor have added some great touches and this equals great value.
You can trust this review, i hope you can try to buy this product and then you know this product good or no. Next time you can make a review for another people.
very compact, low power does generate some heat though
I purchased the 18-24" unit here on Amazon for $150 a bit cheaper than I have found anywhere else on the web. The unit was sold by Monster Pets who shipped it out pretty quickly and my only complaint with them is that they did not post the tracking number I had to ask them for it.
The unit itself is small about 19" long 5" wide and stands a total of 2" tall (the actual unit is about an inch thick and stands an inch off the surface.)
Light output is excellent. I choose the Reef model over the double bright units for 2 reasons first of course is the amount of light it produces (almost 3x) and 2. The fact that these are rated for 50000 hours where as the double brights are rated at only 17000 hours.
"Technically" the reef system might run 11 years at 12 hours per day vs the double bright only 3.87 years (I don't think the other components will last that long but the main reason still stands its much brighter.)
I posted two pictures, This tank...
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This is one of the first mainstream LED fixtures that came to market last year. I needed a LED fixture for my nano reef 35gal hex tank! The 18-24 small size worked so I ordered it! After about 2 months, it stopped working; I think it had something to do with the power plug-in! So I called Marineland and they were fantastic with sending me a replacement which I received in 2 days, however, the wrong size (24-36), but they quickly sent me the right one! I noticed on the new lights, that they had replaced the electrical plug-in with a permanent electrical cord, which would remedy the problem that I had in the first model. It's advertised as a reef compatible LED, but I don't think it does well on the corals IMO. It does ok with the low light corals, but I didn't or wouldn't try to do anything like SPS's! To date, it uses only one watt LEDs, and the newer generations from other makers use 2-3 watt LEDs and the marineland LED's are not replaceable! So fish only and low light corals...
Good lights. I like them.
These lights work well - they replaced 2x40W PC lights and are a tad brighter, though my reflector was prviously of poor quality so I'm not sure how much I was aiming down into the tank before.
Anyways, my corals (all softies) are quite happy.
I knocked off a star because it does not have two power supplies, I would have knocked off another star (what reefkeeper doesn't use two timers????) but it was very very easy to modify to handle two timers, just by adding a piece of 16/3 cable and a small SPDT relay to replace the three position switch. Coil of relay is powered by one timer to switch night/day mode, lights are plugged into another timer to contorl power to the fixture through the existing power cord.
This fixture just looks nice on top of the tank. Do not regret this purchase at all.
Product Features :
- Energy efficient 1 watt LED's that provide the correct intensity to maintain reef aquariums
- Slim, stylized lighting profile bound to complement various aquarium styles
- Fish tank lights effectively mimic underwater "shimmer" effect of natural sunlight
- Innovative aquarium light hoods with 50,000 lifetime hours
- Two modes of lighting: Daytime (white and blue LED's) and Lunar (blue LED's only)
Rating : 3.5
List Price : $160.66
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