I recently bought this LED aquarium light to replace an incandescent lamp that I had, whose expensive bulbs (about $14 each) kept burning out every few months.
This Marineland LED 11-inch Aquarium Light is so far so good. I have a 29-gallon tank that's 30" long, and this 11-inch lamp really does do a good job lighting up the whole tank, just as it claims on the package ("for aquariums up to 30 inches long"). This is great news, because I didn't want to spend more money for a lamp that runs the entire length of the aquarium.
The light really does look natural, and brings out the colors on both my fish and my artificial plants. From what I understand, however, this lamp does not provide the right light waves for planted aquariums, so don't get it if you have live plants.
The lamp also has a "night mode"...it's a smaller amount of light (which happens to be blue) which looks cool at night...but if you choose to use this, you'll have to manually switch it every night (and back to day mode every morning). The lamp does not automatically switch between day and night modes. So, needless to say, the night mode is sort of useless for that reason. I always have the day mode turned on, and have plugged the lamp into my own timer so that the fish can have darkness at night.
I have 3, soon to be 6, two-and-a-half gallon aquariums in which I have my Male Bettas. This light is PERFECT for that size tank. The light would not be bright enough for anything over 5 gallons. If you are a Betta lover and enjoy collecting Bettas, don't hesitate to use this for their single tanks!
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I got this light with a 30 gallon kit and after 8 months the power connection rusted and the whole thing quit working. Sealing the area where the plug goes into the black case may avert this problem.
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I bought the Marineland 20 gallon high aquarium kit, mainly because I was in a hurry to get my daughter a birthday present and I knew she wanted a blue light so she could see her glofish glow (we were upgrading from her old ten gallon). I didn't stop to consider at first whether this light would keep our plants alive. Once I got it all set up, I was concerned that it wasn't bright enough, even for my low light plants. I shouldn't have worried--it WILL grow things like java moss, anubias, crypts, aponogeton bulbs, onion bulbs, moss balls, and maybe even some other things that we're experimenting with now (wisteria and hairgrass). With DIY co2 the growth isn't even what I would call slow. I have switched the hood that came with the kit to a glass canopy, and I plan on buying a second one of these lights to run at the same time. Very nice!
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A perfect fit for our 10 gallon hex. The light is like daylight and there's a blue light too. The switch design for going between the two light types and off could use some improvement, but otherwise it was just what we were looking for.
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Kids love it, fits great. Seems as though its the first thing in the tank to collect dirt and grime.
