Lighting Suggestions - FOWLR

[PotatoPig]

I currently have a 75 gallon rimmed FOWLR with room lighting, which makes algae control a breeze as it won’t grow in the ~1 PAR tank, but it also doesn’t really show off the fish very well.

I’d like to add some sort of basic lights, but I want/need the lights themselves to be:

1. Minimally obtrusive. Working with some WAF/SAF here.
2. Economical
3. Prefer white/full spectrum

Other details - tank has glass top with plastic grating at rear around returns.

Not really concerned about PAR, as not trying to grow anything.

I’d kinda looked at under-rim lights, but not sure how well those will fit in with the glass, and am a little apprehensive about proximity to water, although realize that all the pumps/power heads are also wired up to power so maybe that concern is overblown.

 

[death-by-reef]

I would grab some cheap aqueon hood lights every fish store has em

 

[WompRat]

I currently have a 75 gallon rimmed FOWLR with room lighting, which makes algae control a breeze as it won’t grow in the ~1 PAR tank, but it also doesn’t really show off the fish very well.

I’d like to add some sort of basic lights, but I want/need the lights themselves to be:

1. Minimally obtrusive. Working with some WAF/SAF here.
2. Economical
3. Prefer white/full spectrum

Other details - tank has glass top with plastic grating at rear around returns.

Not really concerned about PAR, as not trying to grow anything.

I’d kinda looked at under-rim lights, but not sure how well those will fit in with the glass, and am a little apprehensive about proximity to water, although realize that all the pumps/power heads are also wired up to power so maybe that concern is overblown.

I've had a FOWLR for many years now, and I always just used the standard fluorescent light that came with the aquarium hood. However, I recently got a 30in NICREW marine led light. I must say I'm pretty happy with it so far. I also have a rimmed tank with glass top, and the light actually seems to work very well with it. It has a built in timer, and you can set it to just white LEDs, just blue, or a combo of both. It's spectrum specific for fish, live rock and coral as well. Don't really have any coral yet, but the color on my fish pop way more with this light than it ever did with the fluorescent light. It was a good price on Amazon too, around $50.