Upgrading 36 gallon Bow Front Lighting

My tank is the 36 gallon Bow Front. It has the standard black hood and lighting that the tank came with. I was thinking about upgrading my lighting and switching to the glass hood because I think it looks better.
I do not have live plants so I know switching lighting isn't necessary, but what are you thoughts on upgrading to some kind of LED lighting system instead? What are the benefits and downfalls to this?
Thank you!

 

Benefits of LED is longer lasting, cheaper energy usage, low profile.

Good leds lights are moderately priced to ridiculously expensive. The cheap ones are low grade leds that could last a month to a few years they can be hit or miss.

I have a ton of planted tanks. I use cheap uv fixtures and cheap t8 bulbs on all my small tanks that I grow out plants for my larger tanks. On my "display" tanks I use a variety of LED companies and some t8s.

LEDs I use; Vivosun 35-80 $ Finnex 75-150+ $ and Twinstar 100-400+ $

I've never spent more than 120 on leds and honestly the cheap 7 $ uv fixtures grow my plants the same as the expensive leds. Since you're not worried about plants, marineland makes reasonably priced good leds or you can go on Amazon and find a great set for less than 50 $ just read reviews and avoid horror stories.

 

Thank you for the suggestions! I will check them out! I think the LED lights look a lot better as well. They make the tank look better (Or maybe it is my imagination?) haha

 

For fair priced decent LEDs I have multiple sets of these and find them to be just as good as my twinstars

 

The Nicrew LED has the day and night lighting on them. Is it beneficial to have lights on at night or is it better to just have them in the dark?

 

The vivo set also has a lunar light and can simulate weather lol.

I'm no expert but I run moon lights on most of my fish tanks. Though I do not run them for the entire "night" period. My light schedule is generally this;
-8.5 hours of daylight
-30 mins before daylight is off lunar lights come on
-lunar lights for 3.5 hours
-12 hours of darkness

I like the lunar lights because some of my fish are more active when they're on. But they also need a period of complete darkness most fish will stay active with lunar lights which isn't healthy if they never sleep.

Some tanks I have little h2show single led accent/nightlights in that remain on 24/7 but they're hidden in caves or rockwork. For example in a community tank with breeding rams I keep one of these leds in their cave because they have horrible night vision and it allows them to protect their fry during black out

 

Thank you so much for the great advice!