Reddit mentions of Finnex Stingray Aquarium LED Light, 24-Inch

Whats the height of your tank?

Stingray is suited for low light plants. To my knowledge, is has a single row of LED's you can see here on Amazon and also shows the Planted+

For the Planted+, I think there are 2 rows (maybe 3) of LED's and more of the 660nm red LED's as well but also has a stronger output of light.

Ive never owned a Stingray cause Ive always kept high light tanks. I just took my 30" Planted+ on my 20 long off and tore the tank down, but had great growth of course with fertilizers and pressurized CO2.

Myrio in general is pretty easy, but getting the red color in plants can be harder:

• Lighting - A light with more red in it might help your plant show off more red. What size is your tank? 24"x12"x12"? If so, NICREW lights have always been great for me as well as the Finnex Stingray, but the Stingray is not adjustable so it either works for your tank or it doesn't. For a tank that short, you'll likely need a dimmer and this one also comes with a ramp timer: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F8NS5SR/
  
• Substrate - Pool filter sand with root tabs like Nilocg's ThriveCaps would work fine. Otherwise, any aquasoil would be fine. Just be careful of their other side effects of the aquasoil like ADA Amazonia leeching ammonia for a while or some substrates raising or lowering pH.
  
• Fertilizer - Nilocg's Thrive or Aquarium Coop's Easy Green.
  
• Water Quality - Make sure there are some nitrates (around 20ppm is fine) in the tank so that plants have that food.
  
• Cheat sheet for plant nutrient deficiencies: https://www.reddit.com/r/PlantedTank/comments/7nbpx1/cheat_sheet_for_plant_nutrients/

Try to find the hardscape first before you focus on growing your plants. It'll make it much easier to create the scene.

For a light, moss can grow (slowly) with almost any cheap crappy light, but I'd recommend this light. It's great for low to medium light plants, and I feel like, as you get more into aquascaping, you'll want to explore into a bit more variety than just mosses.

https://www.amazon.com/Finnex-Stingray-Aquarium-Light-36-Inch/dp/B00NAFQ6RI?th=1

You could try EcoComplete Fine, it looks like people have had success raising corys on that.

I feel like it's worth noting though that with the cost of buying enough special substrate for a 75gal, it might actually be cheaper to just buy a grow light...EcoComplete is about a dollar a pound, and you can get a light for around $50-70: [1][2]

Yeah that's the planted + 24/7. Just a heads up I hate them so I'm not going to give a favorable review but some people love it. It does all settings from day to night, turn on and leave it, you're done. I think it's a gimmick. I had one, it died within 4 months due to that feature, got stuck on reds and never was happy to work again. They do have a warranty but I was just done at that point

If you're down for having a shading on one side, do it, I wouldn't say it's inadvisable but I like very high lights and very few shadows in my tanks. You could always upgrade to it one day in the future if you wished.

I run these on 3 of my tanks. They're a good light, I adore them. Another light you could upgrade to.

This light I run on the other 5. It's much cheaper and it's very much a low light on higher tanks. I get better growth out of stuff with the planted+ but with what you want this could work. It's cheap enough you can always try it out and if it's not bright enough for you, you can upgrade.

I have no idea the lifespan honestly. Let me check when I bought my first one. Apparently I got it last year on my birthday lol. A year in it's still going great, everything grows way too fast. I believe it's about five+ years. Honestly it's still as bright as the day I got it a year ago.