Occasionally you find a bargain. This is one if you are looking for a light for your salt water refugium with the color spectrum and power to maintain a healthy mat of de-nitrating macroalgae. It's a power compact fluorescence lamp with a 26 Watt combined 10,000K + actinic bulb with a mount that should clamp to the side wall of the majority of refugiums. The lamp rotates on the supplied mount so that you can swing it out of the way to harvest algae as needed. Replacement bulbs are available through Amazon and likely others. It's the perfect size for an Aqueon model 3 sump.This is a top of the heap light. Price alone makes it nice but the light is great for a Nano tank.The construction is Well put together,you wouldn't want to drop it on the concrete but. It comes with a well made Bracket for direct mount on my tank. I did reverse the bracket to make it sit over my tank and not hang over,it adjust but not enough for my 1.5g .The bulb is very nice white and Purple spectrums And is a regular screw in socket. The blue leds might not be enough for much of a larger tank but that is the only flaw I see.This light produces a good amount of lumens for it's size. I am using it on a 3 gallon glass aquarium, and tue emerged carpet of hemianthius callitroiddes is filling in nicely.I bought three of these lights to replace an LED that came with my Marineland Half Moon 20 aquarium. The LED did not supply nearly enough light for freshwater plants to grow or probably even maintain life. As soon as a I hooked these attractive looking little lights up, I started to notice immediate results in my plants health. They cast a very attractive light and the moonlight LEDS look very impressive at night. My plants and I are very happy and satisfied with these great little lights.This lamp seems to be designed reasonably well for use with a refugium as I'm using it. The strong point and the weak are the same thing; its the bulb. The bulb has one of the best light output ranges on the market that I could find for my saltwater refugium. It's a little weak in intensity for me so I'm using two lamps. The bad part is that these bulbs have a questionable life span. I've replace two of these bulbs so far, one lasted about a week and the other burnt-out as soon as I turned it on the first time. I'm still running these lights in my system and the replacement bulbs have been working for about two months so far. I'm hoping I just had a bit of bad luck with the first two bulbs.
I should note that when the bulb burnt-out, I made a claim for a damaged item and the seller gave me no problem with a replacement.
CL26BK: Finnex Aquarium Nano Refugium Cliplight including 3U Blue White Bulb & Moonlight LED - REAL
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on Wednesday, October 23, 2013
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