Aquarium Light –3rd Generation A029 Aquarium LED Light 30 Watts Saltwater Light with Touch Control, 5W LED Chips for Coral Reef Nano Fish Tank Marine Tanks with Timer & Screen (A029)

The brightness intensities of both white and blue vary alot depending on your specific style and what you want in your tank! which I love! It also has a cool sunrise sunset option that I use for my fishies

Honestly for the price these are great. Been running a few months and my shift corals are growing and splitting. My SPS are doing ok so far also, they are too new to show much growth yet. My GSP, mushrooms and Duncan have all split in the last month.

So far quality and functionality seem good. Great Price for a budget reef build. Time will tell what sort of coral it will support. Should be fine for soft coral and some LPS, but looking to eventually get a few sps once tank is established. Will update if I need to upgrade to AI prime or not once we get there.

Wanted something cheap for a 12 gallon bookcase quarantine tank that I would also put coral in. The led control is so much better than their older model I have with just buttons. My only thing is with this one and the older one mounted to the same tank the blue color is a little differnt between the two.

This light provides decent flexibility and PAR for a nano reef tank. I measured PAR with varied settings (white and blues) and found a sweet spot for my tank setup. At full brightness (100% whites and blues) and the light at the lowest height possible for the light above the water, I measure around 400 PAR just below the surface of the water (6" below the light and about an inch under water). Near the bottom of my 12 gallon all in one, PAR drops to around 200 at full bright. I set the lights to 40% white and 60% blue for 200 PAR at the top of my aquascape and 100 near the bottom where my leather corals live. I love the color and usability of the light but the sunrise and sunset mode is a joke. I have another LED light that doesn't match the PAR of this light, and the basic controller of that light has an amazing built in sunrise and sunset. This light comes on instantly, based on the start time, at some level of brightness less than the programmed setting. Then after some period of time (listing states 30 minutes) it jumps to the full programmed setting. It's not a gradual sunrise, just on. Sunset is the same. Some time before powering off, it drops to some level of brightness less than the setting, but same colors, not dimming to blues/moonlight. Then after the programmed time has passed, it shuts off completely. My other LED light would keep blues on very low for about 4 hours after the whites went off and I loved the look of the nightlight. The whole plug it in to start the timer feature is ridiculous as well. Holding down the white and blue light buttons turns the light on and off. How hard could it be to have a similar feature to set the start of the timer? Lastly, the mount is not designed to support a rimmed tank. I was able to make it work, but it really needs a spacer to properly mount on a rimmed tank. This one works fine overall but sunrise and sunset are just terrible. The price is great if you can accept how it works, but I'll keep looking for a replacement.

This is a very well designed, engineered, produced and finished device. ;0The light fixture itself reminds one somewhat of a "VCR" cassette. approximately the same width and thickness and height but about two inches linger.The "feel" of the light portion is nice and the finish on the "arm" is rather amazing, it really does feel rather like "skin" when one is handling it, it reminds this person of what is called a "powder" finish.There are multiple screws with turning knobs, two large for the mounting bracket an "cap nuts' again, all well finished. A couple of the cap nuts were missing and the company replaced them quickly, .....arriving on a Sunday! :)Since one will be manipulating it several times during it's lifetime having something pleasurable with which to work is a good thing in terms of repeat orders! :)It has a set of VERY BRIGHT actinic lights and also blue lights of which I cannot opine but they do produce a very nice bright effect in the corals... Quite a "glow".One fish which was acclimated to a "fluorescent" actinic ( which is not as strong ) went and hid under a coral but new ones did just fine with it.I am also using it as a "test" for culturing algae, I teach college biology, and the algae are thriving! :)One of the problems with raising algae in a laboratory / classroom situation is that of it being a multi -use room and I plan to make an "L" frame upon which I will attach this so that the materials can be moved as necessary.The power cord is quite long, 6 feet approximately with a "banana plug" in the middle so that one can get a setting correct on the light itself and not have to turn it on and off when entering and exiting the room.And the reason for that is...The light fixture uses two "touch pad" buttons ( on the top ) with a plus sign and a minus sign, to cycle through pure blue light to the white "actinic" mode. This is a great thing in that it produces a situation rather like " a dimmer" but at no extra cost or extra device which can fail and that, again, in a laboratory / classroom setting a teacher can change the lighting for a particular use and another professor can so do also.The only slight criticism that I might have is that it might be nice to include maybe "two" ( 2 ) red LEDs in the follow on product but that, in and of itself, presents engineering problems and also USER problems in that another button would have to be added for the red LEDs and the USER would have manipulate three buttons. The best fit answer might be...a remote....but again, that presents problems in terms of getting lost, battery acid messing it up and such....so..maybe the best thing is to let an already good thing alone. :)All in all it is VERY well designed, I would recommend it for anyone who needs some kind of design that is not attached to "the underside of a shelf"; and I will be purchasing another for use in the laboratory.

The media could not be loaded. You can see clearly in video that the light just auto shuts off...it really is crap. . you have to unplug it over and over throughout the day just go get it to work again....so what good is that ..if the hiparago company follows through with a replacement one as they say I will change my review....otherwise it's a one and Amazon continues to send out defective items and pass them off as new be careful UPDATE: received my replacement light and it is actually worse than the original light. It auto shuts off way more than the first one did! So now I have two aquarium lights that are basically worthless. I wish I could change my review from 1 star but I can't. My fish are freaked out now. It has been a bad experience. The makers of the product don't have a customer service phone line either so imagine that.