LED Lights for Loaches

[Boromark]

IKEA LEDs

Not sure if anyone has mentioned these before, but IKEA in the UK do a range of LED strips called ‘Dioder’. These are pricey - £29 each - but use hardly any power once installed, and create a nice low-light twilight effect.

I have two strips, and they come on before the fluorescents in the morning and stay on after the fluorescents in the evening to encourage my Clowns to come out. (There is a blue strip as well, but it costs £45 – ouch!) One strip is too weak for my 4’ tank, but two strips are quite effective, and you get the shadows of ripples from the surface running across the sand.

Also, Screwfix do 3’ Sylvania T5 lamps cheap (marketed for cabinets), but I’m not sure if they are the same intensity as aquatic ones. They seem to be running ‘Cool White’ tubes, but I wouldn’t be surprised if these grow plants just as well as the fancy aquatic sunlight ones!

Mark