120 Gallon Progress

Skimmerking · #1 02-11-2006, 04:46 PM

Well I have a FOLWR and i not home for the duration of the lights being on. With that I have no corals in the tank so I dont require actinic all the time.

ANd It saves on buying Actinic every 6months. I only have to buy them every year or something like that, I'm cheap like that.

But with HQI your bulbs are 14K already arent they. If so you can run them all day or part of the day depending on the blue effect you like. shouldnt be a problem. If you had 6500K iwasaki bulbs or 10000K bulbs then you would need actinic's on all day to take out the yellow or to balance out the white....

mike

NanoReef · #2 02-13-2006, 03:26 AM

my HQI's are 10K but i want to upgrade to a 14K of a better brand....who do you suggest? o ya! i will be filling up the tank in 2 weeks!!! we decided to run my sump through the wall into the spare room! we will see how it goes

Skimmerking · #3 02-13-2006, 02:01 PM

Go with www.prairiereefsupplies.ca talk to Quinn he has HQI bulbs pretty cheap that he can get in. PM me i will give you his number and email addy ok .

As for the sump you will love it being on the other side too. Now you can run a refugium thur the wall that is dropping into the tank instead of the return going to the sump.

2 weeks get your dad going on filling it up come on man. Don't make me come over there after my surgery to get you and your dad going on this,....

mr_alberta · #4 02-13-2006, 02:47 PM

Here's my photoperiod:

Actinics & Actinic White : 8:30AM - 7:30PM
HQI - 11:30AM - 4PM

You'll be surprised, but you really don't need your halides on for super long photoperiods.

NanoReef · #5 02-13-2006, 07:27 PM

why dont you need the halides for a long time?? the actinics do it fine for majority of the day??? also, check out my 2 new little guys. here they are! and yes i know i have an alge prob! im looking for a small skimmer for this tank... here they are!
Green coral goby

and my yellow tang....(the size of a toonie!) checking out the hermit!

sorry i couldnt get better pics but these guys never sit still!!!let me know what you think! (as usual)

mr_alberta · #6 02-13-2006, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by NanoReef

why dont you need the halides for a long time?? the actinics do it fine for majority of the day???

I remember reading a thread on RC a while back about people who ran actinics for the majority of the day and saw no difference in growth patterns or colors, so I decided to try this myself. In my experience, there IS no real noticable difference so I left it like that. Save on heat, power and extends the bulb life a little bit.

Skimmerking · #7 02-13-2006, 09:06 PM

Actually Its a Green clown Goby you have there....

looks good thou, let me know when you guy s get in Potters angels i would like to get one .... and some more Cerith snail's

Mike