Odyssea Lights

Northernseacorals · #1 11-02-2012, 10:43 PM

From my personal experience the Odyssea systems are excellent; however the bulbs are not great at all, I have been running Odyssea light on smaller aquariums for a long time, and they have always been up to snuff.

Hanging will still give heat back into the aquarium mate, if you have a controller with a temperature probe you could control a small fan blowing on the surface to help exhaust some of the heat, I have a 178w MH Odyssea over a nano cube now; the light creates quite a bit of heat, however does an excellent job of lighting.

Plan to have a little bit of air movement over the top of the tank, and I think you should be just dandy.

syncro · #2 11-02-2012, 11:59 PM

I have the 24" with a MH + 4 T5 bulbs + moon. This was my first fixture and pretty happy with it. Great value. No problems.

Bulbs: 10K MH + actinic T5s look really good color-wise though I've never owned anything else. In the past few months my nice green algae has been replaced with cyano. Some have guessed that it might be the 1 year old MH bulb. I am dubious but it is a possibility.

Heat: puts out a ton of heat. As Northernseacorals suggested I have a small fan hooked to a controller. During the summer the fan is running at least 50% while the MH light is on which means a lot of evaporation (around 1g on a 45g system). Now that it is colder outside the fan rarely runs.

Quality: construction is a bit cheap feeling. No problems with it though. In the past there have been problems with the ballast causing fires. Apparently they moved to a new design a few years back that solved the (serious) problem.

canadianbudz604 · #3 11-03-2012, 12:08 AM

I've got a set of the 4 bulb t5ho odyssea lights and I'm pretty happy with them for the price. But if u can, definatly buy different daytime bulbs. Odysseas blue lights are actually pretty good.

daplatapus · #4 11-03-2012, 03:25 AM

I've got the 48" 2- 250W MH, T5, LED moon light combo and it's never given me any problems either. Like Syncro, I thought the bulbs were ok and they worked well. I struggled a bit with algae so I broke down and bought Hamilton bulbs. Gotta say, what a difference. A decent quality bulb is waaaaayyyy better than cheapies.