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down below today's video is about lighting for aquariums and do you need to have a special
aquarium light in today's video let's find out hi everyone colin here and welcome back to another
aquarium video and with aquarium lights i have always usually used specific aquarium lights on my
tanks and that is because they are made especially for aquariums so they fit straight on they've got
clips or brackets that go straight onto your tank and it fits very very easily of course they also
plug in and turn on and voila you have an aquarium light which is designed for your aquarium and yes
they work and they work very very well so aquarium lights straight up yes very easy to put on your
aquarium but with the revolution in led lighting it's quite common that people look for cheaper
forms of lighting general purpose lighting to put on their tanks to hopefully save some money
and in general purpose lighting led floodlights are something that many people are turning to
these are very very bright and strong lights and for looking at your fish or growing plants they
have been doing a good job but you don't require a very large size and in my case i'm going to try
this little one here this is perfect for my little tank in my garage and we're going to give it a try
now because it's not made for an aquarium the mounting bracket is not
easy for me to mount and the cord is very very short so i'm going to have to rig up
something to get this light to fit my tank the color of the light though is perfectly fine
so i've screwed the bracket up underneath this shelf and that's now suspended above my
little tank and has it worked? well yes wow the plants have grown
like weeds so the light certainly does work in growing plants and of course it's bright enough
to see the fish when the plants don't block out all the light very hard to see where's the water
so this diy general purpose led flood lamp has worked really really well
as an aquarium light although i did have to rig it up to fit by screwing it up onto a
shelf the plants that are growing here are easy to grow aquarium plants we've got java fern and
that has really taken off under that light and the plant next to it this is called riccia fluitens
or floating crystal wort and you can see it's just grown incredibly thick on the surface of this tank
so these two plants and most other plants are going to grow very very well under general purpose
led lights so there's no reason that you can't use ordinary lights on an aquarium
you just may have to figure out how to mount it so it's easy to use
but in this case here this little inexpensive flood light has worked well in this tank
this is the amount of java fern that i've just taken out and that is very thick it's very healthy
and that's going off back to the local aquarium store for a store credit and in the tank now
i'll have some more space and i can choose some other plants and grow something else
so whether you use a diy led flood light or a purpose-built led aquarium light either of the
two types will work perfectly fine it's just a matter of what suits you and the choice is yours
both of these inexpensive led lights have worked tremendously well for me in growing all kinds
of plants so i hope that answers the question of whether you need to have special aquarium lights
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