How to make an aquarium - Part 3 The lighting

I'm up to the point now where I can start buying some of the hardware for this tank. I already have the heaters and several pumps and I do have a fair amount of lighting however I thought I'd try out something that a lot of YouTubers seem to have used and that's a garden LED floodlight.

These are designed to be mounted outside on a wall and as such have about 6 inches of wire coming from the unit with no plug. I took this opportunity to attach an in-line switch as you can see and then added about 1 meter of wire and a 13amp 3 pin plug. A nice simple project and it kicks out a tonne of light. The beam angle is a little wide but I'm happy with how it looks. It's a 20watt LED with a colour temperature of 6700K. I don't plan on growing anything super difficult but this will cover me for pretty much anything I want to grow.

If you're on a budget this could be a good option for you. I'll give you a 6 month update once this has been running above the tank for a bit.

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