Salty_Northerner
Valuable Member
Good day all, I trust everyone is having a great weekend!
I've been reading alot and watching alot of videos but I'm having a hard time finding anything really concrete in my searches when it comes to lighting my Nano reef.
I've kinda modded the stock canopy on the fluval to fit the fluval 24" marine 3.0 light along with two 2' 453nm actinic reef bars from 21ledusa.
Ok the question is what isn't going to fry my corrals? I read other posts but they seem to fizzle off as info starts to get good then nothing. I have been running my light minus the 2 light bars, let me explain.
My lighting starts like this, light come on at 10am and ramp up to max at noon. Then they ramp down from 8 till 10 pm and the last hour I'm at 5% blue and off at 11pm.
For one, is that to long of a cycle?
My settings are like this and I'll post pics shortly below.
Red 10
Cyan 100
Blue 100
Purple 100
White 45
The light bars turn on manually at noon and been toying with 25-50% intensity. Am I doing this wrong? I know I know every tank is different I get that!
In my photos you can see what corals I have. I used pro mode on my Samsung phone @7500k and 10000k to take a few pix as not to have the blue screw with the visuals.
So what do you pros have to suggest in the lighting levels and time running. I don't care nor have algae issues as I think I missed the ugly phase.
I have been running this light in auto mode and last night did a 10 point set in pro mode for the first time.
New corals I just got on Thursday shipped to me overnight and really don't want to bleach or brown out anything.
I ordered silver pulsing Xenia, 19 polyps of pink Zoa's and a small blue mushroom. The other corals I've had for 6 weeks or so.. given to me despite being a young tank.
I have no idea on the par of this lighting from fluval nor the light bars.. and hearing I can fry the corals with the blue/purple spectrum has me guessing now, and I don't like guessing! I'd like some honest educated advice from the community that has used these lights and if not maybe give me some insight on to how much light I should be giving the tank. I did watch Randy's BRS TV investigates about what we knew about lighting, we've been so wrong episode.
I'd love to grab a AI Prime 16 light but I have a cat that will jump into the tank, lol I've caught him sitting on the light a few times I guess because he likes the heat from the light... My luck I'll get the AI Prime and screen top and he'll jump up and splash!! I can't have that lol.
Anyways photos are attached.
I've been reading alot and watching alot of videos but I'm having a hard time finding anything really concrete in my searches when it comes to lighting my Nano reef.
I've kinda modded the stock canopy on the fluval to fit the fluval 24" marine 3.0 light along with two 2' 453nm actinic reef bars from 21ledusa.
Ok the question is what isn't going to fry my corrals? I read other posts but they seem to fizzle off as info starts to get good then nothing. I have been running my light minus the 2 light bars, let me explain.
My lighting starts like this, light come on at 10am and ramp up to max at noon. Then they ramp down from 8 till 10 pm and the last hour I'm at 5% blue and off at 11pm.
For one, is that to long of a cycle?
My settings are like this and I'll post pics shortly below.
Red 10
Cyan 100
Blue 100
Purple 100
White 45
The light bars turn on manually at noon and been toying with 25-50% intensity. Am I doing this wrong? I know I know every tank is different I get that!
In my photos you can see what corals I have. I used pro mode on my Samsung phone @7500k and 10000k to take a few pix as not to have the blue screw with the visuals.
So what do you pros have to suggest in the lighting levels and time running. I don't care nor have algae issues as I think I missed the ugly phase.
I have been running this light in auto mode and last night did a 10 point set in pro mode for the first time.
New corals I just got on Thursday shipped to me overnight and really don't want to bleach or brown out anything.
I ordered silver pulsing Xenia, 19 polyps of pink Zoa's and a small blue mushroom. The other corals I've had for 6 weeks or so.. given to me despite being a young tank.
I have no idea on the par of this lighting from fluval nor the light bars.. and hearing I can fry the corals with the blue/purple spectrum has me guessing now, and I don't like guessing! I'd like some honest educated advice from the community that has used these lights and if not maybe give me some insight on to how much light I should be giving the tank. I did watch Randy's BRS TV investigates about what we knew about lighting, we've been so wrong episode.
I'd love to grab a AI Prime 16 light but I have a cat that will jump into the tank, lol I've caught him sitting on the light a few times I guess because he likes the heat from the light... My luck I'll get the AI Prime and screen top and he'll jump up and splash!! I can't have that lol.
Anyways photos are attached.
