I am looking for LED strip (prefereably front hood light) that emulates my unavailable Aqueon Colormax 36" flourescent.
Does anyone find they need two types of lights to get what they want? I have brighter overhead to look like sparkling sun but then separate low output frontlight that makes the reds and blues of the cichlids pop. I can no longer secure my frontlight flourescent 36" aqueon T8 Colormax, anywhere, for a year. None of the places recommended by aqueon have them, nothing from any online retailers including Amazon has the 36" any more. So I am looking for an LED replacement with the same spectral output as it augments my main light with something a bit more warm and purple. I have tried and failed to get what I want with other aqueon flourescent options or aquasky led strips. I am tired of experimenting and feel bad about returning.
Here is the specific colormax spectrum I like:
None of the other aqueon tubes provide nearly the correct spectrum to augment my Tuna Suns with subtle front lighting.
Here is my partially working 125 with the light combination I like. It's the combination of the Kessil Tuna Sun LED pendants with the frontlight of the flourescent Aqueon colormax fixtures. The relatively low PAR frontlights are what is giving the blue and red colors here for the fish up front.
I sought out LEDs that woul deither provide the colors I want (basically white without being weirdly blue/UV (the saltwater coral types) or weirdly cold/green (aquasky and everything else I have tried). I thought tunable would be the way to go and setlled on Kessil A360x Tuna Suns which are very expensive tunable white. They are beautiful but I found I needed to frontlight with a low output with the spectrum characteristics of the My setup from prior saltwater included flourescent 36" aqueon T8 Colormax. Then other aqueon I have is quite green and only the colormax has a warm yet purple output that brings out the Malawi cichid colors.
So I am looking for an LED strip anything that will provide the similar uniquely beautiful flourescent colormax spectrum. I think that aqueon colormax LEDS may be my best bet but I hate returning orders and I've done that once already for two lights.
Does anyone find they need two types of lights to get what they want? I have brighter overhead to look like sparkling sun but then separate low output frontlight that makes the reds and blues of the cichlids pop. I can no longer secure my frontlight flourescent 36" aqueon T8 Colormax, anywhere, for a year. None of the places recommended by aqueon have them, nothing from any online retailers including Amazon has the 36" any more. So I am looking for an LED replacement with the same spectral output as it augments my main light with something a bit more warm and purple. I have tried and failed to get what I want with other aqueon flourescent options or aquasky led strips. I am tired of experimenting and feel bad about returning.
Here is the specific colormax spectrum I like:
None of the other aqueon tubes provide nearly the correct spectrum to augment my Tuna Suns with subtle front lighting.
Here is my partially working 125 with the light combination I like. It's the combination of the Kessil Tuna Sun LED pendants with the frontlight of the flourescent Aqueon colormax fixtures. The relatively low PAR frontlights are what is giving the blue and red colors here for the fish up front.
I sought out LEDs that woul deither provide the colors I want (basically white without being weirdly blue/UV (the saltwater coral types) or weirdly cold/green (aquasky and everything else I have tried). I thought tunable would be the way to go and setlled on Kessil A360x Tuna Suns which are very expensive tunable white. They are beautiful but I found I needed to frontlight with a low output with the spectrum characteristics of the My setup from prior saltwater included flourescent 36" aqueon T8 Colormax. Then other aqueon I have is quite green and only the colormax has a warm yet purple output that brings out the Malawi cichid colors.
So I am looking for an LED strip anything that will provide the similar uniquely beautiful flourescent colormax spectrum. I think that aqueon colormax LEDS may be my best bet but I hate returning orders and I've done that once already for two lights.