CHEAP aquarium lights – for fish tank racks

Those lights look like hygger brand. Personally I like Finnex as my budget LEDs but Hygger's air pump is running my 180 sponge filter way better and longer than my fluval

How do you kep your tank's water crystal clean and backgrounds with no algae.?

Omg Joey, I've fallen behind on your videos,but your cheap amazon lights are the ones I use. I actually love them — they grow simple plants that survive in my SA Cichlid community. Totally worth it.

Nicrew are ok. I have one, I have Fluval plant 3.. it’s a bargin

Hi Joey. How do you level the racks?

It would be pretty cool to see different species of dwarf cichids in each aquarium something like that

Why not create the lighting yourself?

Hello from Latvia.! I watch all your videos. I'm a huge fan.

Speaking of these cheap lights. I use the same for my tanks. Two for my 55l tank and one for 26l tank. Use the built-in 24h daylight cycle and my plants and fishes are doing great.

Kind regards.

That light was so disappointing. I just ordered a large one from Nicrew for my 55g. I hope it isn't like that?

I have the same light and have used it for months. It is honestly amazing for the price. I've been talking with the seller who is out of both toronto and Vancouver. There are two guys involved.. I'm assuming brothers or soemthing. Great light tho. I'm super happy with mine and have had zero issues over the past few months

I have a similar Amazon light on my 75 gallon tank, it lights it up pretty good for me, I haven't tried plants since it's an oscar tank, but they possibly could do the trick

Those amazon leds are not looking good. Think the shop light is putting out more par and even cheaper. Run a par meter on those things and find out if the output really is that low as it seems to be. Then maybe return to sender…

Do a shrimp tank

I think you must have been really unlucky in your choice led from Amazon as i have several tanks running on different types from there with great results

How about a small school of CPD’s in one of the small tanks? I keep seeing that they are great fish on other channels and would love to get your thoughts on if they really are that much prettier than other types of fish.

We have expanded so quickly with 13 tanks this year that we had to come up with a quick and cost effective lighting solution. I ended up using $6 Grow lights, a $3 timer, and a 6500k Led Flood bulb. I antiqued 2 for a 40g breeder on a minimalist metal stand, used black sand, and painted the back, bottom, and left side black. This produced a very clean look for a corner peice and gives full coverage. Love seeing all the info you share on various lighting ideas!

What is the tank divider material called that you use!

If those lights are the nicrew planted plus lights (which I'm sure they are) you can grown plenty of lower tech plants in a 40 gallon. I'm currently growing ludwigia, anubias, buce, monte carlo and a bunch of different swords with no problems at all.

It’s hard to compare the two on a bigger tank right after you turn off $600 worth of lights. Those 30 inch lights are really made for something like a 29 gallon tank. They do OK for low and medium light plants. If you want to do something more and you want something it’s gonna look goodEnV bright with some programming options the finnex 24/planted Lights are $77 for the 30 inch at Amazon and that would weigh way out do two of those generics. But I’ve used some of the aqua neat 30 inch on a 29 gallon tank with low and medium light plants and it does OK. But in that size I’ve researched a lot and the finnex 24/7 is definitely your best bang for the buck for a plant quality 30” light.

Yes! This is what I'm looking at now for my future 125… hopefully it's done before xmas