I’ve used a variety of strip light fixtures from Finnex Planted Plus to Walmart shop lights and I’m trying to find a good combination of lights that’ll reach the bottom of this thing without making it look insanely bright at the top.
So far the lighting on top will be:
1 Arcadia UVB 12” fixture
1-2 heat elements, maybe one basking and one ceramic heat emitter
1-2 probably white label RGB planted aquarium lights
I’m looking for maybe 3-5 spot lights that’ll reach the bottom that can be placed at the very front of the top of the enclosure. Full spectrum is a plus. Please don’t come in here and suggest super commonly used products unless it’s something really good that I may have overlooked.
Enclosure is roughly 5’ tall.
by Drunken_Botanist6669
6 Comments
NE Herp (the online vendor) has some spotlights you can look into.
For deep PAR penetration, you need an LED fixture that has optic lenses. There’s many of them on Amazon. The Viparspectra black box is one that’s popular in the reef community I think they also gave a plant one. Or Kessil spotlight style pendant for planted.
Or, if need to go T5HO fluorescent, use a horticulture fixture that has wrap around individual polished aluminum reflectors. They have dual bulb models.
Arcadia lumenize led!!
arcadia jungle dawn seems good but holy moly i love that hardscape
What kind of plants are you thinking?
Look into 6500k garage LED bulbs. I had 250 plants in may apartment and I use them as grow lights. Cheapest lumens per dollar I’ve been able to find.