Just to share with you guys something, a handy tool when you purchase your aquarium lighting. Download any lux meter from playstore or appstore to your phone. What you need to do is position your phone 12" or 24" facing your current lighting, measure the light intensity. Screenshot the result and you can go ahead to compare the light intensity with the new lighting at your LFS. Make sure to use the same distance and take note of the surrounding ambient lighting so as to not give you a false result. Plenty to choose from With this tool you can now estimate if the new light will be more powerful or less powerful according to the lux meter. I've tried a few apps and they are all similarly accurate in measuring the light intensity. It is a simple tool that make life much easier instead of judging your light from the wattage shown or with your eyes which is 99% inaccurate unless you are an old timer photographer. During my photographing days we do not have digital, we w
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