What are your favorite "best Value" LED's?

Rickyreef · Dec 27, 2019

Check out Fluval’s marine nano light. Also app controlled via Bluetooth and has work very good for me in my nano tank.

amoore311 · Dec 27, 2019

I went with the Noopsyche K7 ProII after reading Dana Riddell's review here. I have been running the lights over my 60 Cube and it is growing every coral I put in there just fine.

The light is doing so well I decided to go with them on the 8' 300 Gallon Display I am in the process of building now.

Shooter6 · Dec 28, 2019

This is a 5ft ledzeal.com malibu s400 over my 6ft 180gal sps dominant mixed reef.
The light cost me 601.00 shipped to my door. I run a odyssea t5 fixture as a supplement for 5hrs a day. The t5 fixture was 140 on ebay.

Zachbud · Dec 28, 2019

I love my viparspecrtra black boxes. Grow everything under the sun.

i upgraded the display to 3 xr30 and two 60in t5

blackboxes are now used in my sps frag tanks.

Shooter6 · Dec 28, 2019

I had started this tank off on 4 wifi black box lights but they gave me a ton off problems. Losing the schedule, randomly coming off and on at night at maxed out both channels flickering at night ect. That was the reason l looked for a replacement. I feel color spectrum is better for both viewing and coral health.

H2Ocooled · Dec 28, 2019

Montiman said:
I have always felt that Aquaticlife is one of the best value brands in the industry. Their new Cetus 2 fixtures are 85 wats 8 channel Bluetooth controllable lights for about half the cost of Ai EcoTech or Kessil. They have US customer support that has been excellent in my experience.

I've been using 2 of the Cetus 2 led's with the Aquatic Life T5 Hybrid setup, it works great and puts out good PAR, in my 20" tall 32 wide tank I'm getting around 300 PAR at 7 inches down and around 200 at the bottom (adjusted to AB+ type colors), at full power I get 430 at 7 inches down and 280 at the bottom front.. Its not huge numbers but I've been growing some very nice LPS and SPS with great color. The total price on Amazon was $600, the Cetus 2 are only $219 there now. They had more PAR then my AI Prime HD.

Bruce Burnett · Jan 10, 2020

acer said:
I have to agree you cant compare a XR15 ($450) to the Dual extreme ($650) not only on the number of LED's, but also the tank coverage is double the size on the Dual compared to the XR15. Tank coverage on the Dual extreme is closer to a XR30, not a XR15. But ya $650 isn't really "affordable" for those on a budget. Comparing the Reefbreeder 24 V2+ ($399) and the Dual Extreme ( $650) and the G4 XR30 ( $850) is interesting.

if you had a 3 foot tank the reefi duo extreme will work with one light. the reefbreeder 32 v2+ is slightly lower price same number of leds and higher wattage

Shooter6 · Jan 11, 2020

Rapidled.com corona is similar to radion with wifi control and a 375.00 pricetag. As far as the photon v2, look at the power supply compared to led max wattage, they dont add up. Therefore you cannot get the max wattage out of the leds.