What's up everyone my name is Nicolas Marion and welcome to my channel Aqua Splendor.
So if you wonder how I made those kind of shot, kind of movie/video
it's quite easy and maybe you know it because you probably search and it's on
the title also and it's made with this, The Serene LED kit, it's
made by Current, this is their logo and I always
Thought it was Current-USA, but is just Current, so my bad
I did those shot with that kit so that kit contains, you have like a LED
light is for fresh water and it contained the background LED, the digital
controller, the wireless remote, the background film and the audio speaker so
on this video, I will do the review of Serene LED kit i'll do what are the Pros and Cons
And see how you can install the LED light on the aquarium
what I did I just moved one of my aquarium to this place because I have
some little problem to film this and stuff and to show you guys so I
literally, move that aquarium so what happened is, this is the light I have
I've been using for like three years and this is a Fluval Spec V by the
way if you wonder and that light fit perfectly for the Fluval SpecV expect
I think also in the saltwater it's called the Fluval EVO and it's one of my
favorite aquarium I really enjoyed that thing. Of course, it doesn't fit
way too big for it, but just to give you like an idea of what that thing does, so
yeah we'll do all this and so first of all we'll do have to do the unboxing and
then we do the installation show some examples
Of what you can do, So there we go, let's do the Serene LED kit Unboxing
All right so now it's time to do the installation and I don't have a lot place
in my apartment so I'm just going to move literally move my aquarium
yeah...
all right so now it's time to cut the the back film, so you have the back
film and you need that, I use a ruler tape like this and then have like
a pen, the cutter and the metal bar you just make it easier for me to cut,
So I cut that stuff but I forgot to press the record button
and this is the result and this will show you like on camera what they look
This is how it look you can see there's like a frosted
look and this is really good because it will like you just disperse the light
through the back film and there's a little... its hard - I cannot show it on camera but
but there's a little plastic on it, so I'm just going to
remove the plastic to peel it and then I can just stick it behind the
aquarium and yeah just let me do that first...
2 hours later
the next day
Oh my god alright so I just got it this is what I
was talking about I can show you on camera like this, you can peel the
back film so I will do that, but first I'm gonna show you a little trick
to avoid bubble behind so this is what it
looked like and sometimes you can see there's like a little bubble on the back
and I want to try to avoid this and before I'm just going to pause the video
and just rotate my aquarium so you can just put that behind
And the first thing you need to do is just make sure like the back of your aquarium is super clean
and you're just a cloth and make sure like its really smooth because that's
really important and then after I use this to spray just spray
some water on the back and I use a Opus Card if you're in Montréal
It cost 90$, so yeah I use that and I'm just going
to put some water nothing crazy honestly
that's it and now the hard part so I might just fast-forward this because
it take a little while to do
and this is how you put the back film it take a little while I just put some
water like i said and I'm gonna take the camera so you can see
sorry
And this is how it look...
it can take a little while to to remove the bubble but for this demonstration
like I am not really crazy - Theres little bubbles over there but like I'm not crazy
and anyways we're not going to see them get their the plants and the soil
cover this place. So let's do the installation!
looked like from the front, the back film. It's kinda cool because you can
just hide the the wire and as you can have I'm gonna just do a demonstration
so I can have like this kind of stuff over there and often you have like a
electricity cable that goes behind and so that thing we really hide them like
if a stick like that you see it if I just remove a little bit this it's not
noticeable. Alright so now that we put the film back on the back of the aquarium
it's time to just assemble the Serene LED kit so the first thing I'm going to
do is like to just to remove the current light the current light that I have it's
unfortunately not compatible with the Serenity kit LED so and this is the
18 version and the version that I have is 24 inch so this is the the smallest
that they have and I know like this is too big for the aquarium but it's just
for like the demonstration of the Serene kit LED so yeah lets just removed the light
now in the back you have this controller and they have like a different input
so this is for the light and this is powering this unit this is for the
backlight USB backlight and this is for the audio speaker and you have another
input over there, it's a for the wireless remote controller it's like a
booster and you have like a wire that come with the Box and so
if you something in front that block the the
little sensor over there you can see yes you can see over there so if that is
block you cannot really use the controller so that's why they do provide
a little signal booster which is super cool btw, so I'm just going to plug the light
power the the controller, after this you have the the back LED tube like that
it's supposed to be submersible, you can see I don't know if you can see
on the camera it's just written over there by the way if you want only that
part I think Current now sell this just separately so it's like way less
expensive so which is super cool because I think this is like the the star of the
kit it's the backlight and this is why I like I have like really good...
I can make like special screenshot or photos or videos because of this, so when
you put that behind the aquarium make sure that you angle the light you can
see like this is black water and this is a LED so make sure it's like a tree like
3/4 if you do like this like you won't really see the LED party and you just
like this like straighter support it doesn't it's not bad that it's worked
better when it's just a little slight like a slight angle just like that
I noticed like if I put that LED 20 inch around like 3 inch of the the back of
the aquarium I think that's where it shined because one is like too close you
can see the LED and when it's like too far away it just it's not like super
strong so I'm good just going to put that on the back and by the way they
come with a suction like this and unfortunately, I had some issue with that like
it doesn't really stick long on the aquarium and sometimes just like fell down so
they provide which I think like it's really cool
so instead of using the suction cup like this you can use those things like that and
you just use the like a 3M or if you can use the screw on your
furniture you get like a hole over there so you can just screw that on your
furniture, on your stand or whatever so after this, you have the speakers
they're like a small speaker like this that come with the box and I honestly I
was surprised I wasn't sure if I was going to like hearing like sound from
from the speaker like that from the aquarium but it's really like a new kind
of like experience and I wasn't expecting that
but it's kind of cool, honestly if you like you lower the volume like really
low like to 1 because they like five different levels of volume. It's a
very cool actually, so the back led the USB goes just over there like
that and for the speakers you put just like that their we go so everything like
this is like a plug you can see like all the stuff together so now you can use
the controller to do the effect, okay so now I'm just going to show you like a
what are the sound that are provided, there are four of them you can select over there
I'm just going to provide you like a Sample sound.
about the Pros and the Cons I really like this kind of kit
LED, I never saw this in the aquarium industry, a kit like this with
the speaker with the sound with the light and the synchronization of the
stuff together is really cool and I enjoyed this a lot, it's really fun and
It's a little bit hot when I put my finger on the top
but it's a good light also like if you have like a plant aquarium
It will do the job of course. About the Cons the speaker
itself like it's not like four four two hundred or whatever it depending on the
size of the take it you purchase it's not like super high quality speaker and
but it does the job honestly and the other thing is like I can hear a little
noise coming from the speaker so I don't know how to turn that off but I think
maybe because of the quality of it so but it does the job the other con
the problem that I encounter is what the suction cup like this it does not
like stick correctly on the glass, eventually, it will fell down, eventually,
and so honestly that's pretty much the cons, the price
honestly is really good I can around 200$ or depending on the size of the
kit and also they sell the the backlight that thing separately with
the controller also I think which is super cool so if you want just buy just
just this kit, they provide it, so I hope I've provide all the information that you need
to know about the Serene kit LED so ya, I really enjoy it and if you
enjoy watching this video and you like in the work that goes behind
Because I had to re shot my stuff,
just give me a thumbs up
and if you have any questions or anything and anything just let me know on the
comments bellow and I will answer it up thank you very much for watching, bye bye