Regarding the grow light thing - I think what a lot of higher end fish lights have going for then is the programmability, this one is just on or off with a manual dimmer. Heat output is not much in my opinion, I'd say my tank LED warms up the hood of the 20g about proportionally compared to the plant light in the basement. And lol, I was afraid of the "purple glow" emanating from the basement, but turns out it just looks like I just left the lights on down there at night.
I don't think this type of grow light would be my first choice for tank lighting simply due to the lack of programmability, but if I were to go high tech I would probably couple one of these with a nice programmable light, and then once the programmable one is full brightness have one of these types of lights turn on for a few hours to supplement / simulate "midday" lighting.
Anyway, not veering off topic I just wanted to chime in to my original post there since I was away for a couple of days. Liking what you have going on with the driftwood
I don't think this type of grow light would be my first choice for tank lighting simply due to the lack of programmability, but if I were to go high tech I would probably couple one of these with a nice programmable light, and then once the programmable one is full brightness have one of these types of lights turn on for a few hours to supplement / simulate "midday" lighting.
Anyway, not veering off topic I just wanted to chime in to my original post there since I was away for a couple of days. Liking what you have going on with the driftwood