How Much did you spend on your aquarium lighting per unit

[Reefkeeper14]

I installed the Current USA Orbit Marine IC PRO Dual LED with Bluetooth control ($438.90 plus tax on Amazon). The included Loop controller also handles the return pump and power heads.

Awesome tank, three of my favorite fish: Yellow tang, flame angel, and purple tang!

 

[Flippers4pups]

Thanks for the suggestions, I may have to do another survey in the future! I agree that looking at dollars per gallon or per area might be a better measure for what to expect to spend given a tank size. Maybe if enough people post their tanks sizes here I could go through and figure that out at least for cost per gallons. Maybe on a rainy day

Mine is a 6' 125.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Out of interest, what are you running your orphek at? Mine are on 11 hours a day and ramp to a peak of 80% on blue and greens and I think 40 and 60ish on white and red channels.

Most are at growth program and white at 32%, Blue at 95%, red at 8% and green at 6%

 

[vetteguy53081]

Yikes indeeed! I look forward to the day I can drop that kind of money on a fish tank! Are you happy with the purchase? Did the performance justify the cost?

Yes- started with three and knew these were worth the cost and all the hype

 

[Johnny C]

3 kessil ap700. at almost $800 and I still don’t even have water in the tank yet
-newbie-

 

[ReefLab]

2 Kessil 360x / and 36” T5 aquatic life combo.. over $1300

 

[Reefkeeper14]

2 Kessil 360x / and 36” T5 aquatic life combo.. over $1300

Nice tank! Out of interest what kind of lights are you using for the plants behind the tank?

 

[ReefLab]

Nice tank! Out of interest what kind of lights are you using for the plants behind the tank?

Thanks! It’s actually a UFO grow star light that I used to use for my refugium

 

[AdamNC]

Maxspect R5X R5-150 got for free from Maxspect giveaway and on another tank a AI Prime 16HD $245.00 with the aluminum mount.

 

[Shooter6]

Newest model from a company ive used for the past 2 years. Company name, ledzeal.com
Model x200
2ft, 200w wifi app controlled 4channel light. Custom layout based of g5blue.

 

[Hydrored]

5 ReeFi Duo extremes and 2 Orphek OR3’s 48’s $3,650.00

@danlu_gt is the man though

Realized I do not have an updated pick since install night-

 

[ADAM]

5 XR15 on 2 tanks- 3 Gen4 on my main tank 92g corner tank (quarter circle) and 2- Gen3 on my sons tank (65g) Two on the main tank also have the XHO add-on kits to add some color and fill some shadowing.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

I was going through some of the older threads I have saved and stumbled across this older survey from 2013-2014 which is on the amount of money people spent on their aquarium lights per unit.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/how-much-did-you-spend-on-your-led-fixture.101546/

I thought it would be fun to try and replicate the survey today to see if any of the numbers have changed, considering the many advances in LED technology in the last 10 years. I read through the first 4-5 pages of responses in this thread and was amazed at how many people were building diy kits from RapidLED and other sources. I know that around that time I was doing the same thing, but it seems like now less people are doing diy lights than they were previously.

Anyways feel free to take this survey and maybe comment on what lights you have and what size of tank you've got or any other information you think is relevant to the issue.

These just came in, waiting for the Wi-Fi controllers

 

[See Gee Sea]

“More than I ever imagined I would” isn’t one of the survey choices

 

[Reefkeeper14]

Newest model from a company ive used for the past 2 years. Company name, ledzeal.com
Model x200
2ft, 200w wifi app controlled 4channel light. Custom layout based of g5blue.

These are some awesome looking lights. Do you just tell them what color and how many LEDs you want and they design the rest? How does price compare to some of the big name brands?

 

[Reefkeeper14]

“More than I ever imagined I would” isn’t one of the survey choices

I think that is my reaction to the whole hobby

 

[Shooter6]

These are some awesome looking lights. Do you just tell them what color and how many LEDs you want and they design the rest? How does price compare to some of the big name brands?

Hi yes you give them a layout, if you dont wNt the factory one, which i didnt. I wanted more blues no red

 

[Shooter6]

as for price each light was under 300. For 4 2ft lights shipped was a tad over 1200.00 u.s.
Shipping was 300.00 and paypal tax was about 50.00. I will be getting at least 4 more 2ft lights, and they just released the x300 which is a 3ft version. That one has 98 leds and 270w.

 

[Lizbeli]

Some good ideas for lighting here. My current tank is running two Kessils a360x packages that included the 90degree mounts. They were a little more than $1300. Then I added the 3ft aquatic life hybrid which was $300. So currently $1600. Thats after I stopped using a brand new 6x36 ATI. Lots of money wasted in lighting.

 

[Shooter6]

Some good ideas for lighting here. My current tank is running two Kessils a360x packages that included the 90degree mounts. They were a little more than $1300. Then I added the 3ft aquatic life hybrid which was $300. So currently $1600. Thats after I stopped using a brand new 6x36 ATI. Lots of money wasted in lighting.

Im setting up a 3 display 1200gal system. 1 is 8ftx3ftx2ft tall. 1 is 8ftx30inchx2ft tall.
1 is 8ftx2ftx2ft. At least the first two will be high end sps. The third may be more lps and shrooms/zoa. As soon as i can get my turn at the brs appogee par meter, along with the seneye i bought, ill test par of a single row, and a double row of 4 of the x200. My plan was 2 rows of each over the 320gal and 400gal. But now im thinking about running 4-6 of the 3ft lights over the 400g ran front to back. Then 2 rows of the x200 over the 320g and 1 row over the 2x2x8 tank.