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Fluval Plant LED 2.0 (32w)


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Hello, 

Recently one of the HO-T5 lights on my 4ft tank stopped working.

This was the second time I had to get a replacement, the first one caught on fire randomly.... it was part of my nightmare with that 4ft tank before I sumped it etc. they were very dark times for planted aquaria lol. Anyway.

I have been upgrading to LEDs anyway and didn't want to just grab the same light again, so I ended up using my store credit to grab this 32w Fluval 2.0 LED light for my 2ft shrimp tank.

Just to clarify it's a bit out of my price range and I probably wouldn't have forked out the $300 or so upfront, But yeah I had store credit and all that.

Im very Impressed with it. 

It has blue only, and white 7500k mode which iMO looks more on the red end of the spectrum.

Its fully dimmable,  but doesn't come with an instruction manual, someone on FB told me how to dim it lol you just hold the button in, haha who would have thought? 

The light unit itself is a solid black aluminium, with strong sliding arms also made of aluminium. It's a nice solid feeling unit that has a bit of heft to it -which I like in any product. The arms slide from 61cm to 85cm.

Its wifi compatible, but you need to buy a module for it, then you can operate it from your smart phone-I'm not hugely interested in these features personally but your supposed to be able to change the color spectrum etc from your smart phone. 

So this is a massive upgrade from the diy led floods I used to have over my RCS tank, and I will update as to how the plants like it over the coming weeks.

Would be dope if I could afford one for my 4ft haha. But the 4ft model Is like $5-600. Sad face

This is the most expensive light I've owned to date lol. 

Also has a 3 year warranty and the packaging has QC stickers "Hagen" "Fluval" are literally written all over it.

 

Negatives: 

Didnt come with an instruction manual.

The packaging implies that its wifi compatible with everything in the box. Then you read the fine print and find out you need to purchase a seperate controller.

Nothing that matters really lol.

I walked away from there very happy.

 

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I've been feeding them lots of good veges and stuff lately so it's hard to say but I think this light is really starting to bring out their color more. They are still on the mend after being sold sick cherries that infected my tanks. But I've lost none of my original red colony so that's a good sign.

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That tank grew out great, I ended up selling the tank, waiting now for a new 2ft for this light to go on, it's temporarily over my 5ft ATM- just on the lowest setting- great light plants love these.

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