hygger Submersible LED Aquarium Light, 14W

After mounting my freshwater Kessel lights I realized that I no longer had any “moon” lights, or lights for night time. While these are exactly necessary for any tank, they’re still nice to have and it’s kind of cool looking into your tank at night and being able to see the fish swimming around, and how everything would look as if it were in the wild during the nighttime hours. I needed a submersible light that would be able to illuminate the entire tank (75 gallons), and be adjustable to where it wouldn’t disturb me sleeping, since the tank is in my room. I tried other lights like small “pond lights” and even though they’re good and created a “spot light” effect, there was no way to mount them and I had to manually turn them off and on.

✅ PRESENTATION AND PACKAGING: I’ve seen this brand come such a long way and remember when their packaging was so plain with no colors! LOL. Now they’re literally professionals and have high quality stuff! I love it, and the colors, the inside foam molding to the product, everything looks very classy, expensive, and just screams high quality.

✅ QUALITY: Just as the packaging suggests, the light itself is awesome. Its extremely lightweight, so you can tell there’s nothing extra and unnecessary inside the light. The front acrylic is crystal clear and the entire piece is nicely sealed. I like to be able to shake the light and not hear anything loose and rattling inside. LOL. It’s the very basics of LED diodes inside of a sealed and solid bar. The length is exactly as described and the light would be considered low profile. It comes with three brackets that attach firmly to the light bar, as well as suction cups that are great quality— not those clear, rubbery ones that get hard after awhile and turn white, these are big, have a nice deep cup, and are texture. They’re much different than the cheap kind, so as long as your glass is clean, there’s no question that they will stick and stay (no sliding either).

✅ EXTERNAL CONTROL BOX: The control box is in-line with the light so there’s no extra cords, and it’s small enough to be discreet, but still has all the features and functions of a full size aquarium light. It might be a little confusing to operate and to be able to set the timer on it, but just read the manual and it’s really easy to understand. The icons and the way the control box is set up, has everything labeled and also has indicator lights so you know what’s running and what’s not.

✅ BRIGHT!: Even though the light is slim and low profile, this thing packs some brightness! I chose to mount it against the back glass of my tank, all the way at the bottom; basically down against the substrate to keep it concealed during the way when it’s not on, and at night when it’s lit up and no other lights are on, it creates the most beautiful silhouettes of the pants and fish as they move around the tank. You can adjust the brightness in several stages, as well as multiple different colors, but I keep it on the deepest blue and at 100% brightness and it’s just gorgeous!

✅ POTENTIALLY BENEFICIAL FOR PLANTED TANKS: I also noted that when the white light is on, it’s full spectrum! This lighting is awesome for planted tanks, and this could potentially assist in those tanks that are DEEP and have issues with stem plants that loose their foliage around the bottom of the stem from being over crowded and only have foliage up top closer to the main light! Perhaps that’s a gatekept secret of those that are competitive in the aquascaping hobby, but after mounting this light towards the bottom of my tank and having the full spectrum lit, which illuminates the bottom halves of all of my stem plants, I’ve noticed a visible difference in their growth and appearance! Just a little something noteworthy.

💢 OVERALL: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ FIVE STARS———————————————————————————————————♡
I really wish it were possible to give this item more than five stars, because I feel that it deserves it. Once again, this brand has been typically unknown in the competition as compared to multiple other, popular brands (i.e. Fluval, Seachem, etc.), but I’ve noticed that this company has very quickly caught up to the competition! I’ve purchased and have been running multiple pieces of equipment from this brand for freshwater, as well as saltwater and I have yet to really encounter a major issue with any item. This light is just another high quality piece to add to my huge collection, and I couldn’t be more pleased with it’s function and overall operation. I’m sure you could likely use this light for a wide variety of purposes, as with it being fully submersible, the possibilities are somewhat endless here, along with the various sizes that it is available in. I very highly recommend this light if you’re wanting something that’s budget friendly, but still needing to be able to fully light your tank. It’s wonderful ♡

This light is super cool in my fish tank. It comes with 2 clips to attach via suction cup , or it can float in the water which is what I did with it. I have it just floating on top of the water. There are many color options and the brightness of the light can be adjusted as well. There is also a timer function, and a scheduled clock timer function as well. I have had a little trouble figuring out how to set the timers because there were no instructions included as far as I could tell. But it was easy enough to figure out how to change the color and brightness, though sometimes I just have to click around until I get what I want. Otherwise , it’s good quality and I’m sure it can do much more than I have it doing right now, but without the instructions it’s just a matter of trial and error

This light is okay. It has an easy to use timer/24hr cycle and fits the product description. However, I personally do not like this color of cool white light because it washes out the color in the tank. This light is not very bright, a better option is the Hygger brand.