Phytoplankton strip light

[will?]

Hey everyone, looking to use strip lights for phyto since it will be in a bit of a busy area where I don’t want big bright lights. I’ve seen others use strip lights for this, but can’t find any recommendations. Hoping someone could help with finding some affordable, safe, durable and energy efficient strip lights to wrap around my bottles?
Cheers in advance!

 

[EnterName]

LEDs should be as energy efficient as you can get. Most of the power these things draw will be translated to light instead of just heat, so more power consumption translated quite well to more light output. How much of that light is usable by phytoplankton will depend on its spectrum.

I think there are some LED strips that are used to grow succulent plants. These emit a pink-ish light similar to the Tunze eco chic refugium LED (8831) that I'm using for my phytoplankton cultures and algae refugium and will certainly work for green phytoplankton.

"LED Grow Light" or "Succulent LED Light Strips" might be worth a quick web search.
For example: These ones cost below $30 and might already do the job extremely well.
You can also use neutral/white light which most people do when they get some cheap LED strips. Here are a few for $16 and in different colors.

A little disclaimer: I have tested non of these products and don't know anything about these brands or products in detail.

I hope this helps

 

[will?]

LEDs should be as energy efficient as you can get. Most of the power these things draw will be translated to light instead of just heat, so more power consumption translated quite well to more light output. How much of that light is usable by phytoplankton will depend on its spectrum.

I think there are some LED strips that are used to grow succulent plants. These emit a pink-ish light similar to the Tunze eco chic refugium LED (8831) that I'm using for my phytoplankton cultures and algae refugium and will certainly work for green phytoplankton.

"LED Grow Light" or "Succulent LED Light Strips" might be worth a quick web search.
For example: These ones cost below $30 and might already do the job extremely well.
You can also use neutral/white light which most people do when they get some cheap LED strips. Here are a few for $16 and in different colors.

A little disclaimer: I have tested non of these products and don't know anything about these brands or products in detail.

I hope this helps

Cheers. I’ll check them out. Is there one you’d recommend more than the other?

 

[EnterName]

LEDs should be as energy efficient as you can get. Most of the power these things draw will be translated to light instead of just heat, so more power consumption translated quite well to more light output. How much of that light is usable by phytoplankton will depend on its spectrum.

I think there are some LED strips that are used to grow succulent plants. These emit a pink-ish light similar to the Tunze eco chic refugium LED (8831) that I'm using for my phytoplankton cultures and algae refugium and will certainly work for green phytoplankton.

"LED Grow Light" or "Succulent LED Light Strips" might be worth a quick web search.
For example: These ones cost below $30 and might already do the job extremely well.
You can also use neutral/white light which most people do when they get some cheap LED strips. Here are a few for $16 and in different colors.

A little disclaimer: I have tested non of these products and don't know anything about these brands or products in detail.

I hope this helps

Cheers. I’ll check them out. Is there one you’d recommend more than the other?

As I have not tested these products, I can't really recommend one over the other. But I could imagine the cheaper one will already do. If it's not enough you can buy a second one and still only spend $2 more than buying the more expensive one directly.

Regarding the color: The pink light seems to work well for green phytoplankton, but many use neutral light as well.

If you wrap the light around the cultures you might get away with less than 9W. The tunze light I use works fine and offers 9W of total power consumption for multiple cultures that can only be illuminated from one side.

 

[will?]

Okay, thank you very much. I’m looking more at the $16 dollar ones, since the others are out of stock too. If I get them and use them I’ll let you know how they go. Cheers!

 

[Tikki]

I use these Govee lights from Amazon. They come with a dimmer. I have the 32’ split across two jars or you can do a single 16” with one jar.
I wrapped the strips around in a circle and pretty much covered with Saran Wrap in case I want to remove or change but you could use black tape for more shade. It’s not real bright since the lights are facing inside the jar but I drape a kitchen towel over them if the water level is low.

They’re sitting on my kitchen counter. I will try and get a picture later today.

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