Best light to use for a planted aquarium

[Ayman Roshdy]

Hi Everyone,

I need to have a good light for my 35 gallon tank while all the available lights in my country are using white LEDs, so I am going to a DIY light and was wondering which LEDs should I use, should I go for White + Warm (Yellow) + Blue or White + Red + Blue + Green or should I use some other combination?

Thanks

Edited May 29, 2021 by Ayman Roshdy

[sudofish]

What kind of lighting do you have access to? Are we talking LED bulbs?  What socket? Or the LED strips? And what dimensions are your 35 gallon tank as I haven't seen that one. Also what kind of plants do you want to grow? If it's going to be low light plants then obviously that makes it a lot easier.

Here's a good video @Cory did on lighting:

 

Edited May 29, 2021 by sudofish

[Ayman Roshdy]

Thanks, will check Cory's video

To answer your questions, my tank is 80 x 40 x 40 cm and I was thinking of using LED bulbs, whatever socket available, probably I will have access to all the needed components

For the plants, I was thinking of low maintenance plants but probably will need 1 or 2 medium maintenance which would have orange or red colors as I don't want everything to be just green inside the tank

[Tanked]

Nothing scientific here, so for what it is worth, my 29 gallon has "(2) puck style LED work lights.  each is 1000 lumen and 4000 k (yellow)  They should be adequate to grow any of the low- med. light plants. Adding a single 65 watt 800 lumen 6000k (daylight) white LED has improved the overall appearance, and improved plant growth.  This would be the standard screw in bulb found in a lamp.  My future DIYs will be the daylight LEDs