Hello all.
I haven't been on the forum for ages. I hope all is well with everyone.
I'm starting a small 29 gallon "fish only" tank with a few small fish. I'm thinking of a basic LED fixture just to provide some viewing lighting. When I search for general info. on LED aquarium lighting I get the same very basic stuff - run cool and consume very little power. A few basic questions:
1) Color and temperature (same thing?) of the light never seems to be discussed with LED like it does with fluorescen (4500 K, 6000 K, 10,000 K, etc.t. Are all white LED lights the same in terms of color range they output?
2) How do you determine overall light output of an LED fixture? Fluorescent is all about watts, watts and more watts. Watts seem to not be mentioned with LED fixtures?
3) LED supposedly lasts a long, long time, but does it deteriorate in terms of quality over a fairly short period of time like fluorescent causing algae problems for example?
4) What's the difference between a $ 40.00 LED fixture and a $ 500.00 LED fixture? Does the more expensive model basically cram a lot more LED bulbs into a given space or is the light quality of the individual bulbs significantly better?
Thanks!
I haven't been on the forum for ages. I hope all is well with everyone.
I'm starting a small 29 gallon "fish only" tank with a few small fish. I'm thinking of a basic LED fixture just to provide some viewing lighting. When I search for general info. on LED aquarium lighting I get the same very basic stuff - run cool and consume very little power. A few basic questions:
1) Color and temperature (same thing?) of the light never seems to be discussed with LED like it does with fluorescen (4500 K, 6000 K, 10,000 K, etc.t. Are all white LED lights the same in terms of color range they output?
2) How do you determine overall light output of an LED fixture? Fluorescent is all about watts, watts and more watts. Watts seem to not be mentioned with LED fixtures?
3) LED supposedly lasts a long, long time, but does it deteriorate in terms of quality over a fairly short period of time like fluorescent causing algae problems for example?
4) What's the difference between a $ 40.00 LED fixture and a $ 500.00 LED fixture? Does the more expensive model basically cram a lot more LED bulbs into a given space or is the light quality of the individual bulbs significantly better?
Thanks!