Can I use a hinged glass lid and LED lights instead of an aquarium hood?
I know LED lights are mainly used for night time viewing and aren’t good for promoting plant growth, but I don’t plan to have live plants in my tank. I’m interested in a 40 gallon tank online that doesn’t include a hood…and they’re expensive for a tank that size. I was just wondering if the glass lid and LED lights would work…THANKS!!
Can you do that? Yes, you could. But have you priced LED lighting systems? Not one that’s just to be accent lighting with just a couple of LEDs, but one to actually light the tank? Each LED only lights a small area of the tank http://me-canada.com/images/b03bb2p_light.jpg That’s just for an 8″ length of tank space, and you can see how the LEDs make cones of light. They only blend as you get deeper into the tank. But notice how they fade in intensity too (remember, this bar covers 8 inches).
You might want to compare the price with a regular light before you make a final decision. A 40 gallon is what, 36 or 48 depending on if it’s a tall or long tank ?
http://www.thatpetplace.com/pet/group/15465/product.web
http://www.thatpetplace.com/pet/group/8290/product.web
Those are just the basic lights, you ‘d still need to have the glass cover, since neither is a full hood. And read the details of each LED lighting system, some require that you buy a separate trasmformer to plug them into.
By the way, they do make white LED lighting. And LEDs come very close to metal halide lights in their ability to produce a rippling effect in the water
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