New lighting for 75gal

[catstoy66]

So, I've done my normal overload of reading & researching (yes tad OCD lol) and have ordered this light for my 48in 75gal Tropheus grow-out tank:

DHL 48 Beamswork LED 1W Hi Lumen Aquarium Light Marine FOWLR Reef Cichlid

~ 63 LEDs

~ 6300 Lumen

~ Super energy efficient 1 watt LEDs

~ 54x 10000K LEDs

~ 9x Actinic 460nm LEDs

~ 2 mode on / off function for day and night use


I'm really hoping this will be just right to grow some nice green algae on the rock work for them.  Just a little nervous though that it might be too bright! 

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It will be fine Cat...pretty sure Andrew has one that is over 9000 lumens...I am waiting on the sale of a few fish so i can buy a 72" 7,700 lumen beamswork for my 125gal...if you were finding it too bright you could always add a dimming switch 👌👍☺

[catstoy66]

Awesome, thanks Danny! I'm feeling a whole lot more comfortable with my choice now . I was having nightmares of my tank looking like the surface of the sun & burning the cornea's right out of my fish!! LOL

Hope all is good in your neck of the woods!!

[catstoy66]

The new Beamswork light arrived this afternoon & I'm very pleased! You can't quite see the significant difference that I can in person in the pics below, but the light is substantially brighter. I love the spectrum & that the entire tank is now lit, you might be able to gauge this by the shadows on the back wall of the tank.

The fish themselves are taking to the change wonderfully. I left the old light up & ran both for about 15-20mins then took the old one down. No panicking or spooking! Amazing what I've noticed is that they actually seem more active & gregarious! Now they really are all over the tank, shooting everywhere. Whereas before they really didn't graze too much on the very tops of the large rocks, they're right up there now. Odd but the brighter light seems to have made them more comfortable being higher in the water column & I feared the opposite effect lol.

Yes, I'm super happy with this purchase! At just 1+in, the light spectrum is really allowing the little nuances of their emerging colors to show wonderfully!!

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Good one Cat...yes the extra lumen make the whole set up more "crisp"...nice one! 👍

[jkdjedi]

Jan 14, 2017 18:13:40 GMT -5 catstoy66 said:

The new Beamswork light arrived this afternoon & I'm very pleased! You can't quite see the significant difference that I can in person in the pics below, but the light is substantially brighter. I love the spectrum & that the entire tank is now lit, you might be able to gauge this by the shadows on the back wall of the tank.

The fish themselves are taking to the change wonderfully. I left the old light up & ran both for about 15-20mins then took the old one down. No panicking or spooking! Amazing what I've noticed is that they actually seem more active & gregarious! Now they really are all over the tank, shooting everywhere. Whereas before they really didn't graze too much on the very tops of the large rocks, they're right up there now. Odd but the brighter light seems to have made them more comfortable being higher in the water column & I feared the opposite effect lol.

Yes, I'm super happy with this purchase! At just 1+in, the light spectrum is really allowing the little nuances of their emerging colors to show wonderfully!!

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Looking good!