CURRENTUSA TrueLumen Pro LED Strip Light with Canopy Brackets, Deepwater Blue (3015), 24 Inches

I saw these in a pet store when I went to get a few more fish and loved the color of the lights and how great the tanks looked. I had to purchase 2 12" and put them together slightly overlapping in the middle to fit my tank hood as the 24" was 2" too big. They were super easy to setup and I was able to use the hood from the tank kit to hook them up into using the supplied screws and brackets.The lights barely get hot and are very powerful. I could have gotten away with one but having the two let me get the light to be edge to edge on the tank. They illuminate all the way to the bottom with no problem. I did find that the cables on each could have been a bit longer so I can hide them behind the tank better. They are a little short for my liking. I did have to purchase the splitter to connect the two strips to one power transformer. Although everything I purchased added up quickly and became expensive, I have already noticed a huge difference in the overall quality of my tank. ( i have uploaded photos and descriptions).I'm very happy with these LED strip lights and hope that they last as long as they claim. The startup costs are a little high but you will be very happy with the lighting!

I have several setups of these lights for a number of years, and although I like them, they do have some issues. The quality of the light is quite good. I usually run two blues and a mixed white/blue for my coral tank. Most of my mixed reef tanks are 22-24" deep and I get reasonably high light on top and moderate light towards the bottom. I place my corals accordingly. I tend to run open top tanks with egg crate coverings or something similar. Therein lies the problems. I have had a number of the lights eventually burn out the LEDs, one at a time, and become unusable. Recently I had a 3-stick setup loose the 3-way splitter and one of the lights due to salt corrosion at the connector. I am replacing the splitter and the light, but this time I am sealing the connection point with hot glue inside heat shrink to protect it. I like the lights but I think they should be available with reds, greens, and UV options. And better waterproofing for the lights and the connectors.

I retrofitted my biocube 29 hood with these. Wanted to grow lps and sps coral. Ultimately used 4 actinic and 4 of the marine fusion modules. I also purchased the ramp timer (which was great) and the appropriate splitters and power supply. The color spectrum is OK. Many of my coral dulled significantly despite changing the intensities and placement. The strips have hot spots and do not diffuse the light well. With all the money I spent on these and finding a reasonable mix I was only about $100 dollars away from a Radion. I wasn't happy with the coral coloration and decided to make the leap to a radion xr15 pro. Wish I would have gone with the radion in the fist place. First, there is no comparison when it comes to spectrum. That dumpy looking orange brown acan is now purple blue and red again. Second, par is much better with the radion. I ran the trulumens at about 70% actinic and 80% fusion which would get me 200 par at the top and around 75-100 at the bottom. I run the radion at 30% and get better, more even par values all over the tank. 3rd, the level of control you can have with the radion is insane. The ramp timer was a great addition to the trulumen straps but doesn't even compare.Do yourself a favor and just save up for the better light.

I bought two of these to upgrade the stock CFL lights in my JBJ Nanno 24. The fish and corals love it!Install was easy with the supplied brackets- all I had to do was 1. remove the original CFL wires, mounts exct. 2. Remove the stainless reflective metal 3. Install the mounting brackets on new LED'S 4. Use the reflective stainless as the mounting board. Locate the LED's where you want them. 5. Mark the holes 6. Drill the holes 7. Bolt the new LED's in place (I had to purchase stainless bolts and nuts) 8. Screw the reflective backing back in place 9. Run your wires and wala. I now have great looking LED's in my old Nanno tank! I'm taking one star because if you want to hook these lights together to run off the same supply you have to purchase the connector to do so. And you can only run the lights in parallel. There is not an option to "daisy chain" them together in series.

I have an old SunPac compact flourecent lighting fixture that I used for years on a 46 gallon heavily planted tank. It wasn't until I purchased and setup a new 50 gallon acrylic tank that I was reluctant to lay my 90 watt compact flourecent lighting fixture on top of the acrylic so I looked into the TrueLumen which is also manufactured by SunPac. I have a freshwater partially planted tank and wanted a lighting affect that wasn't just a brighter-then-bright-blinding-white so I chose the combination blue/white strip that was recommended for marine tanks however this exceptional LED fixture is keeping my few real plants thriving! I'm so pleased with the lovely cool color this fixure puts out. I'm also soooo pleased that the LED fixture only consumes 23 watts! These things are also water proof!!! I'm planning on purchasing another one of these LED's soon. I highly recommend this product, you won't be disappointed. Oh the only complaint I have is the power line comes out of the strip in the very back of the strip instead of the side of the strip so if you have a canopy hood with little wiggle room you may need to carve out a little room to accomodate the power line or else it may wear away and expose the wires over time if you find yourself with a really tight fit. Mine has held up just fine so far but I sometimes wonder if it might stop working one day.