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That's great. I'm looking forward to seeing how the new spectrum and added light affects things.@Tristren - I am extremely happy with the light results.
I had a few bumps, as I had my lights about 10 inches above the water at 60 percent power but what I learned after really understating the illumination manager is that my three lights were throwing out only 35 watts of power each based on the lighting intensity and channels I was using.
I then bought a par meter and measured and went oh wait 30 par on the sand bed need to fix this. The light was distributed great across the tank and even and lookedbright but it was not.
I took @Lasse and the BRS video they did on WWC 900 gallon lighting and mimic both of them in a hybrid approach. When doing this my wattage to 265 watts from roughly 100 and my readings are now 150 on the sand bed to 300 to the top of my tank at 80% power with the lights about 6 inches off the water. If want to go to 200 on the sand bed all I need to do is bump up to 100%.
I am still accliminting my lights with the new settings and have one more week but the results are even more amazing. My clam is much happier, and my coral are all extending now.
I was going to add T5 supplement lighting but really no reason to do it now as everything is looking so good.
Hi there,Hey all,
My three Mitras have arrived and are going into my SCA 150 next month. When it is done cycling and I finally turn the lights on, I had been contemplating adding two 48" T5 retrofits from BRS. However, Ditto and Lasse pointed out the LB2's in my other "what should I get thread."
Now, I am thinking...
How do these compare to T5's regarding shading? And what LB2's should I use to supplement the LX7's? I am thinking the 120's for sure (60" tank), maybe one deep actinic and one actinic? Or maybe two deep actinics and one regular actinic?
??? Kind of clueless here.
And thanks for sharing your experiences (AGAIN). Very super awesome cool of you to be so awesome.
@Tristren - Sorry for the delay
I am noticing even at 20K I have a very nice white, at 50% whites, I can go more whites if I need to by just increasing the white or lowering the blue. I have my lights on for a long period of time, because I work and want to at least see them when I do get home, so I have an extended blue period. Again I am mimicking closely the WWC 900 gallon lighting schedule.
As for the spread it is even throughout the tank, I was toying with getting T5, but I have yet seen no reason not to. Everything seems to be growing, nothing is wilting or dieing. Yes i have a few dark area's in my tank but that is well under my rocks in some caves which I would expect it to be dark.
Attached is my LPC file renamed to .pdf, do not forget to rename it
@Lasse - How are you doing with yours? I know you and I have been running about the same amount of time.
I have an expansion box so I have 2 lights plugged into the one and one light plugged into the other I assigned different channels on the expansion box to see if I could do different things and alas I could actually have different illumination channels on the P4 and the expansion box could have it’s own.
I´m sorry for my late answer - I run my in a rather simple set up for the moment
As you can see - I have a rather long period in the morning only running RGB. Start 08:00 and 100 % at 12:00. Real blues and 8000K 0 at 12:00 and 100% at 13:00. ¤500 and 6000 K starts 13:00 and all channels 100 % at 14:00. At 20:00 I start to ramp down 4500 and 6000K . For the moment I have an upper limit of 85 % of max intensity.
The reason for the long "daybreak" is that I notice that my shy fishes just love the weak morning light an show up a total different pattern in this rather weal light.
The short video shows how it looks like when all are at 100 %
Sincerely Lasse
ThanksThe 100 % run have I rise during a couple of months. I start with blue and RGB 100 % for 6 hours and White´s for 3 hour. after that I have ramped up the whites slowly - now I run the whites 100 % for 6 hours (the 8000 K for 7 hours)
The long start period is for my fish
Sincerely Lasse