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Reddit mentions of Beamswork EA Timer FSPEC LED Aquarium Light Freshwwater Plant Extendable (50cm - 18")
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Reddit mentions: 8
We found 8 Reddit mentions of Beamswork EA Timer FSPEC LED Aquarium Light Freshwwater Plant Extendable (50cm - 18"). Here are the top ones.
- LEDs: 22x 0.50W (1000 lumen)
- Config: 15x 10000K, 3x Actinic 460nm, 2x Red 620nm, 2x Green 520nm
- Timer Ready, 2 Mode Day / Night
- Suitable for freshwater, plants, cichlid
- 1 Year Warranty*
Features:
Specs:
Color | Green,red |
Height | 1 Inches |
Length | 17.5 Inches |
Size | 50cm - 18" |
Weight | 2 Pounds |
Width | 5.25 Inches |
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/r/plantedtank is a great resource. I will share my personal experience with you to help you avoid some of the pitfalls I experienced.
If you have any more questions let me know. Hope this helps.
I’ve really never liked buying kits and I always have bad luck with them — you almost always get stuck with shitty tanks, heaters & filters while paying way more than what they’re worth. Most cheapy HOBs also don’t provide any real biological filter media either — just charcoal (which is useless & potentially harmful over time) and filter floss that they want you to buy replacements for.
If I were you, I’d invest in a 10g tank (14 usd at petco & 10 usd during the dollar per gallon sale), this heater or a similarly priced one, and a cheap sponge filter like this. Same cost for a bigger, better tank with a reliable filtrarion that you won’t have to suppress the flow on. You can also go with a 5g, but that’s a minimum and if she’s an active fish, she’ll definitely appreciate the 10g. it’ll also be easier for you as a new fishkeeper to keep the water parameters steady in a larger tank.
You may need to buy a light or lid, but you do have the option of buying a light that will grow plants or the cheapest LED you can find.
If your planning to do a carpeted tank like I “thought” I could do, make sure to not add large aggregate substrate as it will make carpeting difficult if not impossible. I do weekly water changes of about 30-40%.
My stocking is 7 (used to have eight) neon tetras, one clown pleco, one albino bristlenose pleco, and one Werner killifish. Since I have a relatively high stocking with so much live algae and microorganisms, my plecos produce a lot of waste, so I feel the need to do regular and relatively large water changes.
I’ve bought like three different lights trying to find a good cheap one that does the job and promotes strong plant growth and i have settled on this one light. I really like it and it has a plug that you can connect a timer to control both, day and night lights if you want to.
Here is the link:
Light:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B019YXYO1E?psc=1&ref=yo_pop_mb_pd_title
Timer:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00EDMOHH8?psc=1&ref=yo_pop_mb_pd_title
https://www.amazon.com/Beamswork-Timer-Aquarium-Freshwwater-Extendable/dp/B019YXYO1E/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491484353&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=beamworks%2Ba120&th=1
Just got this light in the mail today. I am starting a dry start planted tank here soon and it looks like a pretty intense light for how inexpensive it is. Has both a day and night time setting and there is a timer you can buy for it as well.
To be honest, that’s a high light fixture. There are even cheaper models that would be more medium light like a Nicrew or a different model of beamswork like EA. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B019YXYO1E/
$30 to light a 10g is actually a pretty high budget.
When I started my dry start I just used two clamp-on lights from home depot each with a 6500k cfl bulb in them and it worked great. Based on the budget you mentioned below maybe you might want to try this light (https://www.amazon.com/Beamswork-Timer-Aquarium-Freshwwater-Extendable/dp/B019YXYO1E/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491484353&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=beamworks%2Ba120&th=1)? Not sure if anyone else has had experience with it but here's the video in which I heard about it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uun4umTRNxY).
You could try the beamswork one. The timer is sold separately though.
I have a old spec V and a new Spec V and the new light is far better.
I also have used these with great sucess, I have the older version of this on my SpecV.
https://smile.amazon.com/Beamswork-Timer-Aquarium-Freshwwater-Extendable/dp/B019YXYO1E
This is the one I have (6500K version)
https://smile.amazon.com/Beamswork-Timer-6500K-Aquarium-Freshwater/dp/B01A9F85SO