Lighting advice needed please

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    I was wondering if I could use those led spot lights in my tank. The ones with the different colours. Any advice please ?
     
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    You could if you want to. But it won't really matter since you don't have any live plants in your tank. If you don't plan to do live plants you could use any light you like since it will ve for display purposes only. But if You wish to eventually add live plant then getting a light conductive for plant growth will be a good idea
     
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    Awesome thank you. Any good lighting ideas besides mine?
     
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    @Jarryd are you trying to grow or just display? if you are growing listen to the lady @Ladysphinx if not i would look at led strips rather than spots. again depends on what you tryna do!
     
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    Just for display?
     
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    Wasn't meant to send the question mark
     
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    I’ve used a Lumo 6500k 10w slim LED flood light from Makro in my 120l tank. Growth on the plants has been geeat, just that the water does look a little yellow under the light.
     

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