Lighting schedule ..

[nsr500rossi]

Hi

I am wondering about my lighting schedule

I am running a Ati sunpower 6 x 24w, with 4 narva blues, 1 aqua medic 15000k and a fiji purple

My tank is only 12 inches deep and my sunpower is 8 inches above the water line

I am wondering if i am giving my tank to much light with the schedule i am running..

I have recently added a plating red monti frag that was a dark red, it's now a bubble gum pink, at the same time i added a green plating monti, this is doing well and has kept it's colour

I have attached some pics, not very good i am afraid the blue tint shots are the latest ones

Thanks

Mike

Oh, to add i built my own tank, ;-)

Channel 1
2 Blue tubes 9AM 0% - 11AM 100%
11AM 100% - 7PM 100%
7PM 100% - 9PM 4%
9PM 4% - 10.15PM 0%

Channel 2
2 Blue tubes, 1 Fiji pink, 1 Aquamedic 15000K
10-15AM 0% -11AM 100%
7PM 100% - 7.45PM 0%

What do you guys reckon ??

 

[tankaddict]

Its really up to you, if you have good color then keep it. If the color are getting pale it might be an indication of too much light or low nutrient but by the look of your tank it looks good and very clean.. Looks really new do you clean daily?

 

[sahin]

Nice tank mate! I'm sure you are on UR...

Anyway, coral lightening is usually a sign of 3 things:

1. Too much light or too long a photo period
2. Too little nutrients
3. More for zeovit/ulns tanks; Low potassium

I'd try and either reduce the bulk lighting hours slightly or raise the lights slightly. Try one of these at a time and see how things do over 3 weeks.

If that doesnt work, try feeding your fishes a little bit more, but keep an eye on water quality.

You can also try and replace on the the Blue+ tubes with an ATI Coral plus.

Or if it were me, next time you are due for tube replacement I'd get the following:

Front:
Blue+
Coral+
Blue+
Aquamedic 15K
Coral+
Blue+

You will get really good colour with that.

 

[nsr500rossi]

Its really up to you, if you have good color then keep it. If the color are getting pale it might be an indication of too much light or low nutrient but by the look of your tank it looks good and very clean.. Looks really new do you clean daily?

Thanks, i don't think it is low nutrients, i have chaeto growing well and am running rowa, but my sump is growing loads of algae on the partitions ..looks like a algae scrubber, so i must have a lot of po4 going on, my hanna low res checker says 0.018, but the algae must be masking the real level

Tank is 6 months old, i give the glass a quick clean every day, the sand is only a week old, i replaced the last sand as it had hair algae growing on it, since changing the sand is still clean and white ;-)

 

[nsr500rossi]

Nice tank mate! I'm sure you are on UR...

Anyway, coral lightening is usually a sign of 3 things:

1. Too much light or too long a photo period
2. Too little nutrients
3. More for zeovit/ulns tanks; Low potassium

I'd try and either reduce the bulk lighting hours slightly or raise the lights slightly. Try one of these at a time and see how things do over 3 weeks.

If that doesnt work, try feeding your fishes a little bit more, but keep an eye on water quality.

You can also try and replace on the the Blue+ tubes with an ATI Coral plus.

Or if it were me, next time you are due for tube replacement I'd get the following:

Front:
Blue+
Coral+
Blue+
Aquamedic 15K
Coral+
Blue+

You will get really good colour with that.

Hi

yes i am UR, in the nano section under new opti-white self build if you fancy a look ..

I don't think it is to low on the nutrients as i have a tri colour that is brown, also have a lot of algae growing in the sump, alongside the chaeto .

So what are the Coral+ lamps like, with the suggested configuration you have removed my Fiji lamp, i like a bit of a blue look, at the moment the tank looks pretty white to me

I will reduce the lighting period ..

Cheers

Mike