Long tanks and lighting plug ins.

[KSReefing]

I have a 7 ft frag style tank that I am trying to decide what lighting to go with. I have a t5 retrofit that will work for supplement. I want to use ocean revive t247s because I have used them in the past. The only question I have is how do people run power to tall the light fixtures.

I almost want to do mars aqua because of the daisy chaining they can do. Any recommendations on what to do would be great.

 

[mcarroll]

If the wires bother you that's a definite downside – I'm afraid I'd have to go with something more simple like 72" LED strips for a tank like that. Have you considered DIY?

 

[Lingwendil]

They make loooooong power strips with outlets every foot or so that may work for you... they are the sort of thing you see along the back wall of a work bench. Could mount one up above the lights.

 

[KSReefing]

Haha yeah wired drive me nuts. I'll have to look into the long power stips. I haven't really thought DIY yet either.

 

[Lingwendil]

A 7ft frag tank would be a lovely project for some DIY LED pendants, even something simple like five or six of the 48w boards from blueAcro, each on a CPU heatsink, and some simple driver/PSU arrangements.

Personally I would do something similar, or maybe a set of big "evil clusters" based on a high CRI COB white with a mess of royal blue, with a few simple colors added in it would flat out rock, and blow most commercial offerings away in cost effectiveness for the quality.