Looking for a 48" led unit for LPS

[markandamb]

Look at this on eBay:

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=261969434244&globalID=EBAY-US

Programmable Timer LED Saltwater Aquarium Fish Tank Marine Coral Reef Grow Light

Is there anything around 150

 

[Ron Reefman]

It's an OK light if you want to grow algae. Sorry.

It only has 52 3w leds, a 4' fixture should have at least 100 and 200 is better yet. There are several on the market (even on Ebay).

It has 40 white leds. All cool whites and no neutral or warm. And only 12 blue, and again all one spectrum. I'd rather the light were the other way around with 40 blue and 12 white. Then you could run them both at 100% and it would at least look OK. With this fixture you will run the blue at 100% and white at 20% or 30%. Other fixtures will give you much better range of mix between whites and blue PLUS a mix of spectrum within each channel.

I'd rather have much better light in the tank and no 'controller' which is better for the animals. They really don't care about sunrise and sunset. The feature is nice and I have it on my fixtures, but they cost double what this one does for a reason.