Reddit Reddit reviews Finnex Stingray Aquarium LED Light, 20-Inch

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28 Reddit comments about Finnex Stingray Aquarium LED Light, 20-Inch:

u/AlwaysChangingMind88 · 17 pointsr/Aquariums

FIRST OF ALL: Good on you getting a proper tank for your betta!

Here's what I would do with this tank. Take what you want from it.

Lighting: Finnex Stingray Aquarium LED Light, 20-Inch https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NAFQ6FK/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_QuphybE4CPE6A

I'd get a timer for the light and set it for 8 hours a day.

Substrate: Flourite Black, 7 kg / 15.4 lbs https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0019J0ISU/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_nxphybZM3Y2ZD

And add plants. I think moss would be a nice plant to add with that light as well. Maybe every now and then dose some ferts. I think I see a box to which is a filter. So I'll leave out my filter of choice.

If this were my tank for a betta I'd do this (:

u/RobScoots22 · 3 pointsr/PlantedTank

Many people here, including myself, get awesome results using finnex lights. Their Stingray is designed for low-light setups.

u/bogart16 · 3 pointsr/bettafish

Best advice is to take your time and buy what will make you happy. You'll only spend more money in the long run if you compromise now. Luckily, not everything needs bought at once. Tank, filter, and heater are necessary purchases now. Lighting and decor can be figured out more slowly.

I can recommend what I'd get in your position.

If you're going to buy a kit, this is a good one. Personally, I like this heater, but they do sell a cheaper version. So, about $100 for the tank, heater, filter, and light.

If you want to buy the parts separately, you can get a 10 gallon tank for $10-$15 or cheaper checking craigslist. You'll also need some kind of lid to cover the tank. You can buy glass ones or some people get a piece of glass or acrylic cut to cover it. Tank + lid: $25-$30

Aquaclears are my favorite filters for my tanks, but you could use a sponge filter. You'd need an air pump for the sponge one. So, $20-$25 for a filter.

Real plants are nice, but not necessary. You can do fine with fake ones, just make sure the edges aren't sharp. If you do want plants, the Spec V light should be plenty for low light plants. If you want to buy the light separately, this or this would be fine. I've had a Nicrew one on my larger tank before and it's enough for low light plants.

Or you could just get a clamp on lamp from the store and a daylight bulb. That whole set up would be about $10.

Until you get a new set up, I would recommend water changes at least once a day, if not more. I would also strongly recommend buying a water testing kit.

u/corn_n_potatoes · 3 pointsr/PlantedTank

I'm running the 20 inch Finnex Stingray. I was worried it would be too low light but it seems to be working fine. I also get a couple hours of indirect ambient light from outside hitting the left side of the tank.

I also use a siesta light cycle. I use a timer to turn the lights on between 7am and noon, off from noon to 4:00 and then on again from 4-9pm. Helps keep the c02 levels up and algae down.

Substrate is about 3/4" miracle grow organic choice potting mix, and about an inch of spectrastone gravel.

And no dosing. The dirt does the work.

Finnex Stingray Aquarium LED Light, 20-Inch https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NAFQ6FK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apip_Hx9aYepIqhl9o

Spectrastone Special Black Aquarium Gravel for Freshwater Aquariums, 25-Pound Bag https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002DHKI0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apip_mZuyBmBB33TVi

Miracle-Gro 72986510 Organic Choice Potting Mix, 16-Quart (currently ships to select Northeastern & Midwestern states) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BQLVNI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apip_1xxL3WbowmVhP

u/justCral · 3 pointsr/PlantedTank

I had a Nicrew 12-18 inch LED light on my 5 gallon for a while and it worked splendidly. Nothing spectacular, but it grew my Swords and Java Ferns. Great for low light, not so much for carpeting. Also it's cheap. But I don't know how much that matters to you.

You can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0191EWII2/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_HiqIDbZ9F02HN

I've recently upgraded the tank to 10G and am now using a Finnex stingray on it. I have to say that it is one of the best lights I've ever used. It's just the right amount of light and is great for low maintenance/low light plants and high maintenance/high light plants, so it's good all around. I'm not sure if they have a model suitable for a 5 gallon but it may be worth checking out. It's a bit more expensive but worth the price IMO.

You can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NAFQ6FK?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Hope this helps a bit OP

u/Kaleb_epic · 3 pointsr/Aquariums

Here let me price out a decent tank for you.

10 dollars for a 10 gallon tank, dollar per gallon sale at petco

20 dollars for a heater, This one will work with a 10 gallon

10 dollars for sand It's only 5 pounds though so you may need two

30 dollars on a filter, This is on the expensive side, there are much cheaper you could do.

45 for a light. This is a plant light, it can grow plants, you can go cheaper if you don't want to grow plants

After that your only cost is your pets. Aquatics is a expensive hobby but with this set up you could easily do a betta. If you want to skip the heater you could do some shrimp or some other subtropical fish. Filter can be downsized too, I personally like to go with a stronger filter. Light could also be fairly cheap, it's a light to see your animals if you don't wish to use it to grow plants. That's my go to when setting up a new tank.

u/mmmichelle · 2 pointsr/PlantedTank

Finnex Stingray (if $40 is what you consider cheap).

u/plantederp · 2 pointsr/PlantedTank

finnex stingray

If you want a little more light/features and ability to grow a little more in a low tech, I recommend the Current USA satellite+, it's what I use on my 10gal.

u/Urbanscuba · 2 pointsr/Aquariums

If you just want light then you can go for whatever cheap lights you want. LED's are cheaper electricity wise, and without live plants you can go for normal white.

Something like this would be a very cheap and good solution if you don't care much about aesthetics and you're willing to build a mount. You won't have a moonlight for night though, but as long as the room isn't completely dark at night it should be ok.

If you want an all in one solution then this is about twice as much (you want the 36 inch one) but it's very low profile and comes with a moonlight.

The cheapest possible solution would be 1 or 2x of these mounts which you can get bulbs in the 4-6 dollar range, like these. If you tank will be sparsely ornamented then one would work ($12 is cheap as hell to light a 29g) but it won't be lit brightly and it will cast shadows and you'll have a lot of light pollution in your room.

u/caitlinisgreatlin · 1 pointr/Aquariums
u/Jadis4742 · 1 pointr/bettafish

That's just the tank, though - the filter, light, and heater are what's gonna eat up your budget.

Here's the heater I have for my 5-gallons, both going strong for two years now.

This is the filter I plan on getting for my 10-gallon although I am not sure how rough that current will be on a betta yet.

And this is the light I will get, but this is a really nice light for a low-tech (no injected co2), low-light planted tank. There are plenty of good, cheaper lights out there.

u/bobbleprophet · 1 pointr/Aquariums
u/aquariumkeeper · 1 pointr/Aquariums

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00NAFQ6FK/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?qid=1416628211&sr=8-6&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70 Thus us a great light kan, it looks nice too. Its par is about 32 for 12 inch deep, and with the 10 percent off, the light is around 48ish bucks. Great deal, its better then the fugeray. Not the planted plus however. Its around half of the planted plus.

u/Camallanus · 1 pointr/bettafish

I'm not sure what the Walmart tanks are, so I'll just assume a standard 10g. With any lights, I always recommend ones that come with dimmers or can be easily attached to some cheap dimmer.

I use the 20-27" NICREW Classics on my 10g tanks, but they're high light by default, so I got a $6 dimmer dial to lower them to a setting that worked for me. The new NICREW SkyLED lights might be a better choice thought since they have less LEDs and probably have more appropriate light spectrum (more red) and PAR for the 10g tanks (I haven't tested the PAR on these). Their design is also a lot sleeker IMO:

https://www.amazon.com/NICREW-Aquarium-Planted-Spectrum-Freshwater/dp/B07C5JCYWP/

Finnex Stingray are also recommended a lot because they're the famous brand name. They have red LEDs for plants and would probably be low lighting for a 10g, but you'll be limited by that low lighting. Also, with general Finnex products, you can't dim them (not including the 24/7 that you can't run 24/7 without growing algae) and you can't attach any cheap third party dimmer to them because they use some proprietary power supply. Still, here's a link if you want to try them:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NAFQ6FK

You can also try Beamswork lights for a cheap light, but I've never really liked the look of them and how many different models there are that aren't clearly marked as different models. Even the smallest ones are high light on a 10g, so you definitely need a dimmer for them too. They also seem to use more energy than other light fixtures.

u/ePiCRaiSiN · 1 pointr/Aquariums

How much does that run you? I've never understood what exactly co2 does or how to set it up but really want to make a planted shrimp tank

Is this the light?

Finnex Stingray Aquarium LED Light, 20-Inch https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NAFQ6FK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_DxuiybD1R5CHM

u/Elhazar · 1 pointr/PlantedTank

Without going to deep into the theory, a light that mirros daylight is a good balance between aesthetically pleasing and effective for plants.

That said, LEDs use less power and live longer than other lighting types and are cheaper, at least in the long run. A cheap LED is a better choice than a floodlight.

u/xMcNerdx · 1 pointr/PlantedTank

Yes, I realize now that I should have refined my original post. As far as what I have going right now:

Lighting - Finnex Stingray; buying two clamp lights isn't going to be much cheaper than this at $44.

Filter - Sponge filter with the powerhead listed above. I'm not set on one for now because I'll see what's at my LFS and go from there, but I have one in mind.

Tank - standard 10g tank from LFS

Substrate - I plan on using either black sand or normal sand, whatever I can find, along with root tabs. I like the look of sand and from what I hear it's easy to use for rescaping, which I will probably be doing. I had dirt capped with sand in my last tank and it looked horrible after a while because it mixed too much.

Is Seachem Prime the typical dechlorinator? I saw it recommended somewhere and that's what I plan on getting. I'm also looking at getting these tools. I'm not sure how much quality differs but they're cheap and have some good reviews.

I plan on sticking with RCS and some snails for now, fish can come later. As for plants, I think I'm gonna go with some java fern and java moss. I'll see what else my LFS has and recommends.

I greatly appreciate the help by the way.

EDIT: I wanted to add that I'll only be using root tabs on plants that would need it, I know I'm not supposed to plant java fern in the sand. I was just reading about staurogyne repens and how it could work in sand and low tech as long as I use root tabs and fertilizer. Do you have any thoughts on this?

u/Supasouljer · 1 pointr/PlantedTank

Does S. Repens need high light ? I am going to be using a Finnex Stingray

u/MaxGriefen · 1 pointr/shrimptank

This one? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NAFQ6FK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_RtJjzbF6XV9HK

Are you sure it won't be too bright for my low-tech tank? I don't want a ton of algae growth. One review said it happened to them.

What's the best heater for a ten gallon tank?

u/CuteKittyCat2 · 1 pointr/AquaSwap

It's not as cheap, but I use the 20 inch finnex for my 10 gallons and like it a lot https://smile.amazon.com/Finnex-Stingray-Aquarium-Light-36-Inch/dp/B00NAFQ6FK?sa-no-redirect=1&th=1

u/Ka0tiK · 1 pointr/Aquariums

I highly recommend a low/medium light LED. My personal favorite for low light tanks is the finnex stingray (I use one on my 55).

If you need a cheaper option you can use desk clip lights with CFL 6500K lights that you can buy from a home department store of your choice (Home depot, Lowes, etc.)

u/whale52 · 1 pointr/PlantedTank

Mmn, I'd be wary since it doesn't have any reds. If you can spare a little extra money I'd get lights specifically made for planted tanks, like the Finnex Stingray.

I also have a bookmark for this LED - it's not made for planted tanks specifically but I heard from somebody on this sub that they had success with it in their tank (which is why I saved the link).