Archaea Slim-Pro Aquatic Plant LED Fixture

[AUVet14]

Does anyone know anything about this light? http://www.adana-usa.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=72_74&products_id=748. It is one of the lights I am considering for the GLA 36-L that I should receive this week.

I emailed Afa about it and they said it will work fine for growing light-demanding carpet plants and red plants. I'm just looking for further assurance that it is actually worth getting before I spend money on it only to find out it doesn't meet the demands I want it to.

 

[Gerryd]

Does anyone know anything about this light? http://www.adana-usa.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=72_74&products_id=748. It is one of the lights I am considering for the GLA 36-L that I should receive this week.

I emailed Afa about it and they said it will work fine for growing light-demanding carpet plants and red plants. I'm just looking for further assurance that it is actually worth getting before I spend money on it only to find out it doesn't meet the demands I want it to.

Hi,

Unless they can provide PAR values and the setup to obtain them, you cannot know except through usage if a fixture is sufficient for your needs. Sorry but their word tells me nothing. How will the light be mounted? How far away from the plants will it be? Etc, etc. Just be careful of taking their word for it. It is call marketing.

Not saying is not a good light, but plants can grow with many types of lighting including incandescent.

It is attractive but narrow. How about the light on the sides and such where the spread is much less? Would you need 2?

Sorry, how large is the tank you want to use it on?

That said:

1. Most plants do not really require high light. They do fine in med-low light.
2. It is mostly about matching c02 and ferts to the light you have.

Most carpets (and other plants) care MUCH more about c02 than they do high light. I have found dwarf clover, stauro replens 049, glosso in almost no light when they went under wood and the like. I still find clover in my tank months after it was removed and it is buried under other plants, yet still viable and green.

There are of course min light requirements for all species but these for the most part are not that high at all.

 

[AUVet14]

Hi,

Unless they can provide PAR values and the setup to obtain them, you cannot know except through usage if a fixture is sufficient for your needs. Sorry but their word tells me nothing. How will the light be mounted? How far away from the plants will it be? Etc, etc. Just be careful of taking their word for it. It is call marketing.

Not saying is not a good light, but plants can grow with many types of lighting including incandescent.

It is attractive but narrow. How about the light on the sides and such where the spread is much less? Would you need 2?

Sorry, how large is the tank you want to use it on?

That said:

1. Most plants do not really require high light. They do fine in med-low light.
2. It is mostly about matching c02 and ferts to the light you have.

Most carpets (and other plants) care MUCH more about c02 than they do high light. I have found dwarf clover, stauro replens 049, glosso in almost no light when they went under wood and the like. I still find clover in my tank months after it was removed and it is buried under other plants, yet still viable and green.

There are of course min light requirements for all species but these for the most part are not that high at all.

Well I asked for PAR values in the email. They didn't provide any. So I'm left to guess. I can't find anyone with any personal experience with this light either, so I am inclined to avoid it. The GLA 36-L is 36cm x 22cm x 26cm, should be about the same as an ADA Mini M. Other Lights I am considering for this setup are the Archaea 27W Power Compact Clip-on fixture http://www.adana-usa.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=450, which apparently uses the same type of bulb (27W Power Compact twin florescent lamp) as the ADA Solar Mini M, and the 16'' Finnex Ray 2 DD LED fixture.

 

[AUVet14]

Here is a thread displaying PAR values for the Finnex Ray and Ray 2 LED fixtures. I am not sure about PAR data on the Archaea 27W PC light.

 

[iwannagofast]

I've seen these in person and they grow plants well. I live by AFA so I'm there almost every week and have really seen the tanks grow with these lights.

they have 1 of these over a mini-L (slightly larger than the tank you're looking for) and it grows plants and red plants too. They also have a 60H set up with 2 of these but that's because the tank is quite a bit deeper than the mini-L.

The only thing I don't like about the light is that it's too blue looking, about a 10,000k color temperature.