I was just wondering what kind of schedule people are running on their Fluval Evo 13.5 with the stock lighting. I’m going to upgrade eventually but for now I’m gonna keep the stock lights. Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated
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Want to be able to have some nice corals, nothing epic, just worth the adventure into saltwater. Most shops say the stock light won't cut it.What are you trying to achieve with the upgrade? That will determine what route to go.
My personal opinion, is that the Fluval options might not be a big enough step up over the original to make it worthwhile.
You won’t need a timer for the AI Prime. It is fully programmable using the AI app.
Want to be able to have some nice corals, nothing epic, just worth the adventure into saltwater. Most shops say the stock light won't cut it.
Can you explain in more detail how this works?To the timer? It’s here:
Get the Pro version (which is $1 more expensive!). Whilst it can’t control the blues and whites separately, in practice the whites dim down first when both are on. So by using this you do get blues in the evening and white during the day, even though it would appear that isn’t possible from the Fluval LED.
Can you explain in more detail how this works?
I’m trying to use this timer with the stock light and can’t seem to understand how both white and blue lights can be on together to dim like you mentioned....
Thanks for any clarification!
Franz in NJ
I was under the assumption that the touch switch on the hood only allows white, blue, off….I don’t see both white and blue at the same time…. I might be mistaken!If you have the blue and white lights on, and use the Nicrew timer to dim them, then when it gets to a low percentage (e.g. 3%) then you can only see the blues.
Technically the whites are still on at this point but they are so dim that you can’t see them. At this point you can still clearly see the blues.
I was under the assumption that the touch switch on the hood only allows white, blue, off….I don’t see both white and blue at the same time…. I might be mistaken!
Thanks!
Franz in NJ
Cool! Thanks for clearing that up!No, the options are white AND blue, blue only or off.
So, how do you get blues exclusively? My Evo has white, a mix of blue and white, and off. I have once or twice managed to get very blue light... but can't seem to get it on purpose. On mine, dimming the blue/white setting fades out the blue first, not the white. Any thoughts?Answering the original question, I added a cheap LED strip to the hood that I got off amazon, and I run the stock light on a timer:
The schedule:
LED Strip:
12 hour cycle with dimmer; starts coming on at 10:30 a.m., goes off at 10:30 p.m. (fully automated)
Stock Light:
Turns on at 12:00 p.m.; I switch to blues between 4:00-5:00 and leave the blues on exclusively until the stock light goes off automatically at 9:30 p.m.
Been running this cycle since I started adding livestock to my tank in December and so far everything seems to be doing pretty well.