My northern fish tank,!!!!!! Video Added !!!!!

[ensquire]

New stock and pics
Between losing some fish to a powerbar failure and getting rid or a few aggressive Damsels the tank looks quite empty these days.
Trip to Edmonton yielded a few of Dez's frags and some nice fish and LPS from Shannon, Taylor at BWA.

Pugley My Bicolor Blennie



Regal Tang from BWA, and a couple of Dez frags. Waiting for a new light as mine is not up to the job and frags aren't looking very healthy ATM.




Feather duster from BWA, it vacated it's home and attached itself to my powerhead base.



FTS



Scoop doing what he does best, spreading sand everywhere.

[jackcool]

Its looks awesome great work buddy. I like your snaps of tank so much. Here you showing nicely maintained tanks. And the corals are so colorful. Some of fishes looks fabulous.

[ensquire]

Everyone at home is very happy with the tank.
Happy wife , Happy life

Originally Posted by jackcool

Its looks awesome great work buddy. I like your snaps of tank so much. Here you showing nicely maintained tanks. And the corals are so colorful. Some of fishes looks fabulous.

[ensquire]

Don't you just love it when the mailman shows up with new toys ?????


New 24" Odyssea 250W MH with 2 T5HO Actinic and 2 Moonlights. External ballasts and fan. 4 plugs so easy to set up on timer or controller.



Well Packed, but did have to take apart because one of the bolts holding MH bulbs had fallen out. No biggie.





I'm sure that individual reflectors would make it a better fixture , maybe a mod in the future.







Ballasts easily installed in cabinet.

[ensquire]

My initial impression of this fixture is, Why didn't I get MH lighting long ago.
I'm going from a 2 bulb Hagen to this so there really should be a huge difference, but I am thrilled with this light. I realize that it is not really high end equipment, but for this system at home it is a huge addition. I only have a few SPS and I think that they were already dead from lack of proper lighting. I am going to leave them in the tank for a few days to see if they come back, I am hopeful.
The mushrooms, toadstool and Nems love the new lights as do the torch and frogspawn.

The current light cycle is
Actinics on at 9:00 AM off at 9:00 PM
MH on at 1:00 PM off at 6:00 PM
Moonlights on 9:00 PM to 9:00 AM

Is this enough MH for my lightly coraled tank (mostly softies) ??
If I add more LPS or SPS should I increase this ??
At present the bulbs are factory bulbs, so I am looking at upgrading the T5s for sure, I have 1 Icecap Actinic and am wondering if I should order one more or a deepwater 14k so that the sunrise sunset cycle has more natural light than straght actinic lighting. What do most others do ???
I am happy with the stock MH bulb, it is very white, so I may pick up a Phoenix for a little more blue to see the difference. Any recommendations ??
I will post some tank pics in a bit.

[ensquire]

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[ensquire]

Originally Posted by ensquire

My initial impression of this fixture is, Why didn't I get MH lighting long ago.
I'm going from a 2 bulb Hagen to this so there really should be a huge difference, but I am thrilled with this light. I realize that it is not really high end equipment, but for this system at home it is a huge addition. I only have a few SPS and I think that they were already dead from lack of proper lighting. I am going to leave them in the tank for a few days to see if they come back, I am hopeful.
The mushrooms, toadstool and Nems love the new lights as do the torch and frogspawn.

The current light cycle is
Actinics on at 9:00 AM off at 9:00 PM
MH on at 1:00 PM off at 6:00 PM
Moonlights on 9:00 PM to 9:00 AM

Is this enough MH for my lightly coraled tank (mostly softies) ??
If I add more LPS or SPS should I increase this ??
At present the bulbs are factory bulbs, so I am looking at upgrading the T5s for sure, I have 1 Icecap Actinic and am wondering if I should order one more or a deepwater 14k so that the sunrise sunset cycle has more natural light than straght actinic lighting. What do most others do ???
I am happy with the stock MH bulb, it is very white, so I may pick up a Phoenix for a little more blue to see the difference. Any recommendations ??
I will post some tank pics in a bit.

Anybody have any advise for light cycle and bulbs???????

[The Grizz]

Hey Mike, sorry I missed the addition of the new fixture.

As for your light cycle I think you should be good with what you have it set at for the moment. You are making a big jump in light so you don't want to cause any light shock by having the MH on to long. This is almost the exact same as my cycle but I shut the moon lights of @ 6am.

As for the bulbs, all the stock bulbs that come in Oydessea fixtures are crap. I changed my MH's out as soon as I got them with bulbs from EBay. I am running 15000K MH and 12000K T5 in my fixtures ATM but also going to add some dimmable T5's to add a few more colors. Probably actinics, 22000K & maybe Fiji Purple.

[ensquire]

Thanks Greg,
I picked up a couple of those ebay bulbs up and have them ready to go.
But need a 14k deepwater for one of the 2 T5 bulbs.
So when I get that I will swap all the bulbs over.
Looks like my plans are getting changed for my tanks again.
Wife thinks it would be a waste to set up nicer tank at work than the one at home,
So a swapout is in the works here. its like she was reading my mind LOL

What are you running for lights on your FOWLR for lighting? I have 3 fixtures for other tank and will probably just start with fish and nems . 6 bulb T5 probably sufficient until I put corals in ?

[The Grizz]

Right now I have a 4 bulb T5 fixture but I think I am going to try some cheap LED panels on the 116 gal just to see how they do.