165w Aquarium lights for growing?

YoMamasFlowers · Apr 17, 2023

I've had a friend give me some aquarium lights he had going on some salt water coral tanks. I pulled out the par meter and got 700 umols off this thing wide open. ( has a dimmer) these could very well run a small veg or clone right?

YoMamasFlowers · Apr 17, 2023

PipeCarver · Apr 18, 2023

YoMamasFlowers said:
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Ya you bet, it can fry a sprout too. Not sure if that light has more than 1 setting but give sprouts distance and a low setting if there is one.....Babies don't need much light, I use t5 fluorescent right through veg.

YoMamasFlowers · Apr 18, 2023

PipeCarver said:
Ya you bet, it can fry a sprout too. Not sure if that light has more than 1 setting but give sprouts distance and a low setting if there is one.....Babies don't need much light, I use t5 fluorescent right through veg.

I haven't got into fluorescent yet. Just hid and led

PipeCarver · Apr 18, 2023

YoMamasFlowers said:
I haven't got into fluorescent yet. Just hid and led

I like the heat t5's put out with the ballast, I need all the heat I can get in my basement grow even with t5's I have a 150 heat lamp running in my veg closet.....in my 3x3 tent I have a 75w and a 150w reptile heat lamps just to get up to 76f with blankets on the top of the tents......

steamroller · Apr 18, 2023

I own those lights on marine reef aquarium.
I would not use them for weed.
They are 10k with a strong blue color also.

YoMamasFlowers · Apr 18, 2023

PipeCarver said:
I like the heat t5's put out with the ballast, I need all the heat I can get in my basement grow even with t5's I have a 150 heat lamp running in my veg closet.....in my 3x3 tent I have a 75w and a 150w reptile heat lamps just to get up to 76f with blankets on the top of the tents......

In my 4x5 a 400w hid keeps the temp perfect right now. You might wanna look into just using a hid for the watts you've got tied up. They grow nice and tight under mh

YoMamasFlowers · May 1, 2023

steamroller said:
I own those lights on marine reef aquarium.
I would not use them for weed.
They are 10k with a strong blue color also.

This is the growth between 2 days of being under this light with both sides of the fixture running 100%. I say it does great for veg/clones.

GoldenDragon · May 1, 2023

I know someone else who uses aquarium lights to veg, he said there great and give very good veg results.

YoMamasFlowers · May 1, 2023

GoldenDragon said:
I know someone else who uses aquarium lights to veg, he said there great and give very good veg results.

I believe it. This was in my bath tub with nothing regulated at all and I got that much growth lol.

TomH · May 2, 2023

I gotta say, I just took a couple rips and that second pic makes your plant look like it’s leaves are almost as big as your feet!

YoMamasFlowers · May 2, 2023

TomH said:
I gotta say, I just took a couple rips and that second pic makes your plant look like it’s leaves are almost as big as your feet!

That's a solo cup so not quite lol

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