T5 Tubes Or Led's?

[Rob5]

I have a 1020x470x610 200 litre quite heavily planted tropical tank

It is lit by 3xT5 39w tubes built in the hood

I have been looking at LED lit tanks and wondered if the lighting is more beneficial than my T5 fluorescent tube set up?

If LED's would be better, what hardware would i need and where would i purchase the items?

Any advice will be gratefully appreciated

Rob

 

[Chad]

I use LED's and love them. The heat reduction and bulb replacement savings alone are worth the switch from T5's. I was running the Nova Extreme Pro light which has 6 bulbs, I had two units, and it was just so costly to replace bulbs and my study was a hot box. Now that I have LED's the house is cool and I don't have to replace any bulbs. Also the growth of corals in the reef tank and plants in the planted tank are excellent with the LED's.

 

[Rob5]

Did you buy your led unit pre built or did you build your own?

I want to keep the price down so I am prepared to source and build my own

 

[Chad]

Because of the corals and anemone I have I really wanted to go with a prebuilt system with a controller. So I got the AI Sol Super Blues but for many applications prebuilt (like the ones that our mod Steve) builds work perfectly.