Best 48 Inch Led Lights For 55-Gallon Aquariums

Nicrew LED light is an affordable lighting system you should consider if having a fish-only tank. With total 180 LEDs including 150 white and 30 blue, the light provides a very bright daylight that really brings out the colors of your aquarium inhabitants. It comes with a 3-position switch for 3 different modes: all LEDs on, only Blue LEDs on, all LEDs off, which respectively provide daylight, nightlight, and off.

The white LEDs combined with the blue LEDs provide bright white light during the daytime while only the blue LEDs provide moonlight at night. This ensures your aquarium is supplied with appropriate lighting at day and night thus ensuring the quality life of your fish is maintained all through.

The Koval LED aquarium light is perfect in lighting an aquarium considering it has 156 bright LEDs with five colors. It is able to provide a full color spectrum for the vivid growth of your plants and the stunning view from your tank. The light has three optional control modes – all LEDs on, only Blue LEDs on, and finally all LEDs off, which respectively offer daylight, moonlight, and off setting. You can switch between these modes by using a three-position switch on the fixture.

The Beamswork EA Timer is another LED aquarium light that you should consider for your fish tank. Being pre-installed with 37 10000K, 9 Actinic 460nm, 4 Red 620nm, 4 Green 520nm LEDs, the light is ideal for a cichlid fish tank with some low light level plants. Its total 54 high-quality LEDs will help provide additional lumen output for the vivid growth of your plants as well as the better coloration of your fish.

This LED light features a configuration of 104 white LEDs 10000K and 16 Actinic LEDs 460nm offering two lighting modes – all LEDs on for daytime and only Actinic LEDs on for nighttime. Its daytime light color mimics that of the natural living conditions of cichlid fish under rivers making the light an ideal choice for cichlid tanks.

The Current USA Satellite Freshwater LED Plus is one of the best LED lights for fish tank on the market today simply because of the amazing features it possesses. It is fitted with super bright 6500K white LEDs and full spectrum RGB LEDs. The intensities of these LEDs are customizable independently to offer countless lighting colors you can see in nature.

The product comes with a 32-key customizable wireless remote. The remote comprises of six optimized color presets, four memory buttons suitable for saving your own custom colors, 12 dynamic effects and presets which comprise fading lunar, storm, cloud cover and much more. The six optimized color presets are pre-established and optimized for different types of freshwater fish tanks including community, planted, cichlid, goldfish, shrimp…

The Finnex Planted 24/7 Automated Aquarium LED light gives some unique features you will benefit from. Its fully automated 24/7 feature allows for automatic lighting cycle and hands-free control. This wonderful feature stimulates a day under the sun with sunrise and sunset inside your aquarium by automatically transitioning between different lighting colors. It starts with a cool lit dawn light, transitioning into a warm sunrise morning, followed by an intense color blazing high noon, scaling down to a red sun drowned sunset and finishing with a starry night blue moonlight.

If you don’t want to use the 24/7 feature, there are also other preset modes for you to choose. These lighting and weather modes are preprogrammed and ready to use by only a single click on the corresponding button on the remote control. Besides, there are four memory slots (M1-4) on the remote control for you to save your own lighting settings.

If you have Arowanas, Flower horns, Discuss, Goldfish, etc in your fish tank, you will need a specific LED light to bring out the most coloration of these species. Being fitted with 128 high output Multicolor LEDs, each LED bulb consists of 3 fixed colors: Red, Green and Blue, the Finnex Monster Ray Color Enhancing LED strip is designed for the main purpose of boosting the coloration of your fish.

This is one of the best LED lights for planted aquarium. It is fitted with 180 white LEDs (7000K), 96 red LEDs (660nm) and 12 blue LEDs that offer a very bright daylight for plant growth and a shimmer moonlight for nighttime enjoyment. The durable high output LED bulbs makes it an ideal for planted tanks with low-medium light needy plants.

If you have a 55 gallon saltwater reef tank with many corals to care for, the Current USA Orbit Marine LED light is a great choice for you. It comes with a Ramp Timer Pro controller which automatically controls the LEDs according to a pre-established cycle for automatic operation and free-hand control. Moreover, the smart timer also offers short transient periods (15 – 30 minutes) between day and night modes that protects your fish and corals from sudden lighting changes.