How Much did you spend on your aquarium lighting per unit

[tautog83]

3 xr30s,61" aquaticlife hybrid and floating mount , ok im going to throw up now

 

[Tuffyyyyy]

I picked up 3x used Kessil a360WE on here for my 120g. However probably Going to add a couple of the Noopsyches for more light. The other issue I have is that the Kessils are pretty old at this point so the spectrums between the 3 don’t align.

I have an Ocean Revive over my Frag tank and that thing packs a powerful punch. I’d like to rearrange the spectrum eventually to go more blue with channel 1, but it’s a nice light for $150.

I also have a Kessil a360NE over my 20g water box. I really like the Kessil look lol.

 

[X-37B]

2 lumenbright minis
$300
2 hqi ballasts
$300
2 phoenix 250 watt de 14 k
$110.
Over $700 total.

They are in the closet and I will be replacing the T5's in a month.


Have had them for 2 years and setup my 120 with a $150 used ATI T5 unit.
It has worked very well and at least I have options lol.

 

[cvrle1]

2015 I spent $269 for three Mars units with free shipping. Still using them today.

But, but, but they are not safe, they will burn your house down, etc...

To answer OPs question, $600 for 6 Noopsyche 7K Pro IIs (wont use all of them). Plan to add 2 Sunblaster T5 units down the road, so another $100 or so.

 

[fragit]

2x Orphek compact v3 $650 each burnt LEDs after 3 years. Replaced with 2x Reefi at $650 each. 120gal 4x2x2 foot mixed reef. Reefi rock! @danlu_gt is awesome to work with!

 

[LeftyReefer]

I am really surprised at how many people are using Mars Aqua lights, it would be great to see tank pics from more people!

No kidding. I was at one of the LFS last night and noticed they had all Mars and/or Wills lights on their SW tanks.
Everything seemed happy.

 

[Tuffyyyyy]

But, but, but they are not safe, they will burn your house down, etc...

To answer OPs question, $600 for 6 Noopsyche 7K Pro IIs (wont use all of them). Plan to add 2 Sunblaster T5 units down the road, so another $100 or so.

Did you get those off of the Noop store or aquariumlowcost?

 

[cvrle1]

Did you get those off of the Noop store or aquariumlowcost?

Private seller on here actually

 

[cvrle1]

I am really surprised at how many people are using Mars Aqua lights, it would be great to see tank pics from more people!

While not Mars aqua, about 95% same. Lots of info and pics

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[Matt1997]

About $6-7k. 3 radion g4 pros on one tank. The other tank is using 3 hydra 52 HDs within an Aquaticlife hybrid unit.

 

[Bryn]

I would like to take the Fifth, and court seal any documents for 100 years. ;Woot

 

[Reefkeeper14]

About $6-7k. 3 radion g4 pros on one tank. The other tank is using 3 hydra 52 HDs within an Aquaticlife hybrid unit.

Awesome aquascape the amount of room for the fish to swim looks awesome and the coral cover is really good!

 

[Arabyps]

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.

 

[cvrle1]

 

[WiscoFishNut]

~450 for a Kessil A360x, another hundred for the Wi-Fi dongle. I don't feel so bad after seeing what other folks have dropped lol. Thinking about possibly upgrading down the road with an Aquatic Life hybrid fixture.

 

[t5Nitro]

I have 5 Orphek Atlantiks plus 4 - 48” bars on one tank and other two have hydra 26 hd
Do the math ............. roughly $5500 yikes

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.

 

[ApoIsland]

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.

Maybe it's just the math nerd in me, but I would be much more interested to know how much do you spend per square inch or square foot or even per gallon to light your tank. Someone who spends $200 on an AI Prime to light a 5 gallon cube is spending much more per square inch than someone who spends $1200 on a fixture to light a 120g tank.

I spent approx. $1000 to light a 4x2x2 120g tank. Rounding to the nearest $1 that's roughly $8 per gallon or $1 per square inch or $125 per square foot.

 

[Reefkeeper14]

~450 for a Kessil A360x, another hundred for the Wi-Fi dongle. I don't feel so bad after seeing what other folks have dropped lol. Thinking about possibly upgrading down the road with an Aquatic Life hybrid fixture.

I used to have a kessil, it was a great light until the fan broke one day and I couldn't get a cheap replacement! It seems like from the time of the last survey to know the number of people running kessils has dropped significantly

 

[WiscoFishNut]

I used to have a kessil, it was a great light until the fan broke one day and I couldn't get a cheap replacement! It seems like from the time of the last survey to know the number of people running kessils has dropped significantly

I've only had this one running for about 8 months, but so far so good. I am really disappointed in the mobile app tho. The app that I have for my much cheaper Fluval Sea lights is way better IMO. If it weren't for the great shimmer look I'd probably shop around lol

 

[Reefkeeper14]

Maybe it's just the math nerd in me, but I would be much more interested to know how much do you spend per square inch or square foot or even per gallon to light your tank. Someone who spends $200 on an AI Prime to light a 5 gallon cube is spending much more per square inch than someone who spends $1200 on a fixture to light a 120g tank.

I spent approx. $1000 to light a 4x2x2 120g tank. Rounding to the nearest $1 that's roughly $8 per gallon or $1 per square inch or $125 per square foot.

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