Looking for Answers about Marineland Reef Capable LED Lighting System?

Any light is not recommended over open water. Mostly for safety purposes.

The LED's are not replaceable. They are rated to last 50,000 hours. We also do have a performance warranty on that product for one year.

In general, we would recommend the Reef Capable lights for plants. The Double Bright can work for the low light plants. I would reference our technical specs on each of the lights so you can pick the correct output needed for your plants. Please see the link below for the product specs.

http://www.marineland.com/LEDp3.asp...

Please reference the product buying specs for this light. Thanks.

http://www.marineland.com/uploadedF...

We don't recommend using anything electrical over open water for safety reasons. You should have a hood or glass canopy over your tank.

All of our further LED projects are still under development and haven't been announced. Sorry.

The light itself will not sag, even fully extended. It is made out of metal. On each end are the legs that slide in and out. Even though they are fully adjustable, they are in there snug enough to be truly adjustable to 60". The legs can also be completely removed and the light can sit directly onto the glass canopy. Let me know if you have any additional questions.

There is a little bit of opinion between where both will work fine. The new Reef Capable LED provides a lot of light at low energy. If you can focus your high light corals directly under the LED that will work well and you can easily add another fixture to double the light. The more proven light technology of HQI will provide very good light and has many years of success but uses a lot more energy and produces more heat. In the end the choice is yours but both are great lights.

The Reef Capable strip light will not fit under that hood. It is designed to go on top of a glass canopy.

The product is flexible to 60" but let me reach out to engineering on the additional .5 and see if that could work. You could obviously still lay it flat but let me check and see if that will work.

We are continuously working on upgrades and further enhancements to our LED lighting offerings. Those projects are still under development. Thanks for your interest, we will definitely announce those enhancements once we launch the products.

Direct comparisons of LED and HQI are a challenge, many 250 watt HQI lights are rated 200 to 250 PAR at 15” to 20” water depth where the Marineland Reef Capable LED is rated at 130 PAR. The HQI are in fact more intense but 250 watts vs. 36 watts is a huge jump in power consumption and heat output.

Internal and external testing have demonstrated our LED systems will support coral growth and make for visually stunning illumination. Depending on species of coral, growth rates and overall look of the lighting will dictate which lighting system should be used. The photosynthetic pigments are capable of adapting to different light sources but I would review literature about success and make gradual changes.

The size and number of LED lights are completely based on your lighting requirements. Please see the link below to the lighting specs for those lights and our other offerings. We do not currently have any LED lighting with a 3 watt LED.

http://www.marineland.com/uploadedF...

Unfortunately, you are not able to use a timer with this light. We are working on improvements to this in the future.

Lux is basically Visable light, heavily weighted toward the green spectrum (what we see). LUX is the measurement of apparent intensity, as viewed by the human eye, per square meter. Because the human eye weights certain parts of the spectrum (certain wavelengths) as brighter than others, two light sources can have the same intensity but a different LUX. LUX is a unit of measurement of lumens per square meter, sometimes (and incorrectly) used synonymously with light intensity. Instead. Hobbyists that use LUX as a unit of measurement would typically keep their reef aquarium or freshwater planted aquarium light intensity between (3000-14,000 LUX), depending on how heavily stocked it is with soft corals, hard corals or plants. LUX was somewhat useful to the aquarist before PAR meters became relatively affordable, and can still be useful if a PAR meter is unavailable.

Par is Photosynthetically active radiation (I think it might be "Available") anyway, basically it's light that coral or plants can use for the process of photosynthsys. This includes little of the green specturm because it's not super usefull to our coral. When hobbyists refer to light "intensity" in an aquarium, PAR is what they are actually referring to, as PAR is literally the amount of light energy usable by chloroplasts per given area. Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) is considered by many the best way to measure light energy and quantity for the aquarist, and is much simpler to define and measure than any other form of light measurement. For the home aquarist's purpose, PAR is the number of photons per meter squared per second of light that falls between ~400 nanometers (nm) and ~700nm in wavelength. Photosynthetic efficiency peaks at around 430 nanometers, which is approximately the major spectral output of a standard blue (actinic) bulb, and 680 nanometers, which is approximately the major spectral output of a (white) daylight bulb. Both bulb types and wavelengths are useful in providing PAR to photosynthetic invertebrates, therefore it is recommended to use both types of lamps.

Yes this is, you will enjoy the shimmer effect. I would also recommend that you check out our light specs that gives the LUX/PAR values for all of our LED lighting systems.

http://www.marineland.com/uploadedF...

The dimensions of that light is 53.125"x7.125"x4" (LxWxH). There is only one cord that powers the unit. Please let me know if you need anything else. Thanks.

Measurements Reef Capable lights:
Cord length is 2781 mm
All are 128.2 mm front to back
All are 22.8 mm thick
Lengths: 18-24” (33000) 424mm
24-36” (33001) 576.4mm
36-48” (33002) 881.2mm
48-60” (33003) 1186mm

The legs on all extend about 25 mm fully retracted on each side and then sit on the top of the aquarium frame.

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Do you have a "canopy" that you are trying to remove your legs? What is the exact lighting system that you are using for your 150 gallong tank? If you can give me a bit more details, I will be able to give you the correct information.

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Sorry, I gave you the dimensions of the unit in packaging. You are able to fit a 48" tank with the legs.