What's up everybody J here and welcome back to The Planted tank and today I'm
gonna be giving you guys a review a long-term review of my current US a
satellite fresh water LED plus on my 10 gallon desk aquarium so let's go check
it out now the first thing I want to mention
about this light is that for a 10 gallon this is the 18 to 24 inch the entire
fixture is only 18 inches long so it's perfect for a 10 gallon that is 20
inches in total length and I just want to say that this light is capable of
growing pretty much anything that you decide to throw in your 10 gallon it'll
grow you know the most demanding stuff it's pretty powerful for what it is it's
only 13 watts but on a tiny little tank like this it's gonna be growing some
plants really quick so you definitely can use this light with co2 and the cool
part about it is that it's dimmable so let me grab the remote here this is the
remote and gives you all kinds of different color options and stuff it's
not ramped it doesn't have a ramp timer from the factory but you can purchase
one I believe they're like 15 or 20 bucks or something like that they're
pretty cheap but also you can grab this adjustable tank arm bracket for it as
well and I've got the little infrared receiver hidden up in there so anytime I
want to change it with the remote I can just point it straight at the light and
it does what I tell it to do every time it's real nice and snappy it's not like
the finnex LEDs that kind of have a delay the LEDs themselves the white LEDs
are 6500 Kelvin and it also has a bunch of RGB LEDs in there as well which is
red green and blue they actually use these LEDs called cluster LEDs so the
each white LED that you see there actually has three LEDs inside of each
one of those circular LEDs so yeah each LED has 3 diodes and it's the same for
the RGB II the RGB 's actually have the red
and blue LEDs mixed into one and their adjustable individually which is awesome
and this adjustable tank arm bracket is about 25 bucks as well and it is super
super solid you can use it on rimless tanks on rimmed tanks you can see
obviously I'm using mine on a rimmed tank right now but it's grown literally
every every single plant that I've put in the tank these are all super easy to
grow plants though I did a trim recently on my s repens and plucked off some of
the leaves from the dwarf sash because it was getting a little tall from my
liking so I turned it up a little bit and hopefully that does the trick but
this light is dimmable like I said so if it's too much for your setup at the
moment you can dim it down and pretty much create any kind of color
temperature that you want within the tank which is what I love about it and
also I know a lot of people are a fan of shimmer I'm not really too big of a fan
of shimmer I thought I was until I purchased a light that well it's it's
the asta xx is what I bought and I really liked the shimmer effect at first
but then I realized how much it kind of hid everything in the tank with all the
shadow effects and stuff that it created so I'm definitely more of a fan of a
flatter light and I think it allows you to see things in the tank a lot easier
instead of having a single point source of light so really really enjoying this
light I've had it for about eight months now I purchased it last June and it's
been treating me really well I haven't noticed any like natural dimming in the
LEDs over time they seem to be just as strong as the day I bought it so really
really satisfied with this LED and if you guys are in the market for a new
plant to tank LED for your 10 gallon be sure to check this light out there will
be a link in the description I promise you it won't let you down and yeah so
that's pretty much all I got for this video just a long-term
review of my current USA fresh water satellite LED plus and there will be a
link in the description if you decide to purchase one it will help me out and
give me a small commission so really appreciate that and yeah it's pretty
much all I got so if you're new to this channel hit the subscribe button and the
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