Blue Haddoni, do I have enough light?

[bobpiker]

Hello,

I'll be adding a large blue Haddoni quite soon. I'm picking him up from a fellow enthusiast and know to plant him on the glass after digging out a hole and I'll make sure to drip acclimate over 2 hours with some water swap in between to make sure to match salinity and other parameters. I believe the fellow who has him now has a bit more T5 light that I do but not too much more. I've got a 220 that is 30" deep without about 4 inches of sand, so the nem will be somewhere between 30 and 35" from my lights. I have an ATI Powermodule 6 bulb with ATI bulbs...a common group with a bit more of a blue spectrum.

Is that going to be enough light? I had planned to screen the top with stacked egg crate and remove a piece every couple of days to allow him to light acclimate.

Thanks, Bob

 

[OrionN]

Don't take that long to drip him in. If salinity is clow, 15-20 min max to get temp to stable. Keeping him in a bucke with that slow drip will get the bucket cold and temp drop, then there will be shock when you get him into the tank. Much faster drip rate will keep temp the same. Beter yet put him in the sump and drip water into the bucket and spill into the sump.
My goal is to get temp the same and salinity the same whenI get him into the tank. Long drip will help with salinity but temp will not be the same.

 

[bobpiker]

Thanks for the advice. I realize now that you point it out that temp would definitely be lower in the bucket so likely a bad shock once put in the tank. I wonder about a small heater for the bucket for a longer drip. My salinity is 1.026 whereas the nem is coming from 1.025. I would bet a 20 minute drip would get the salinity similar, so that' what I'll do and avoid a bucket heater. I wouldn't have believed that 20 minutes would be enough but you obviously know what you are talking about.

Thanks again.
Bob