Which lighting fixture should I buy?

[S0K]

Originally Posted by Myka

Personally, I prefer the look of T5 over LED, so I would go with the first fixture. That debate is really personal preference though, so you should choose whichever one you like better. The third one won't be very bright - even with that many LEDs. 0.2 watts doesn't punch very deep. Also, those LED fixtures are 10,000K which is much whiter/yellowish than most people prefer their marine tanks to be, but that is personal preference too. I'm not sure if that is something that will bother you or not.

You're right t5's will give me more flexibility as far as color goes...but not sure I want to buy new bulbs every year. I'll cross the last one off my list though and make it between the evo and the t5 fixture. I just want to know if either of those will allow me to have mushrooms or other corals in my tank. If neither will then I'll just get the evo led fixture.

[Aquattro]

Either of the those first two will grow mushrooms. Assuming this isn't for a 3' deep tank

[Slyguy00]

I had the marine land led fixture that looks almost the exact same as that one, and I wasn't very impressed. Way to much white, and the lenses were very direct and not a good spread. Thats just my opinion, but I know when I upgraded to my razor I saw colours I never even knew existed in my tank with that cheap led. As stated before though, its pretty much all personal preference.