advice on lighting, used mh or t5 glo

Navarchus · #1 07-09-2009, 03:34 AM

My tank with T5 (7*54w)

Navarchus · #2 07-09-2009, 03:35 AM

btw It is diy fixture….

xtreme · #3 07-09-2009, 03:57 AM

Wow, Navarchus only one of the three pics works but I'd like to see more. What are the dims of your tank? The trio of Regal Angels don't bother any of your corals?

whatcaneyedo · #4 07-09-2009, 04:18 AM

This is my soft coral 20gal with Hagen Glo. But I still prefer the MH on my main tanks.

megs_clark · #5 07-10-2009, 06:51 PM

Well thats a bummer, lol. I will deffinitly wait then on the anemone. How long do you figure till its safe. A couple more months???? And then mabe could i buy a hardier one. I was also told not to buy a hammer coral as my clown fish would eventualy love it to death.

. They are sure pritty lol. I was hopping to buy off someone whose anemone had split or something but they dont seem to come up that often.
While im still asking for advice, iv been reading alot of forums, recently when first setting up the tank i bought for a filter a marinland hot magnum bio pro 250 filter with the bio wheel. Im reading the canister filters and bio wheels are bad. Do you agree. Can i take off my bio wheel and keef the filter? I read you can take out the spunges and put live rock in it? In my filter its not actual spunges, its a carbon media container (which iv been running empty) with a rite sleeve on it. It says "necessary for everyday filteration. The sleeve screens out free floating dirt and debris" Theirs also a micron cartrige for polishing the water? Can i use this and just rince it one a week. I have a aquaclear hang on the back filter and the guy at the pet store said to buy the marinland hot magnum bio pro 250 filter with the bio wheel. And not use the aquaclear. I also just put in a karilia 3 so i have tons of flow. Think i might need to tone that down a notch even. What do you think? Its a 30 gallon bowfront
Wow my messages are alway so long!

Navarchus · #6 07-09-2009, 05:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Navarchus

My tank with T5 (7*54w)

Hi
The first pic is from day 1 just to show the light intensity.
This was a sps dominated tank so no problem with the diacanthus!
In the beginning all of them where chums but one bright morning the yellow belly started chasing the blue belly, and as you probably know stress is one thing you don’t want you diacanthus to have!

Tank dimensions 50 * 24* 22(h)

But let's not snatch the thread…..

megs_clark · #7 07-09-2009, 06:48 AM

Snatch away, lol, i love seeing full tank shots off peoples established tanks. I spend toooo much time looking at peoples journals or blogs of them going through their tanks growth from begining to end. But i cant stop myself. Navarchus, i love your tank. I think its one of my favs. Im torn between yours and a bonsai thread i seen on here. I think yours is winning, lol. I usualy like the tanks with lots of different color, but your speratic shoots of green everywhere is really neat and clean looking. Feels more naturalm like theirs trees in your tank. I love it. Its exciting to see such neat and pritty tanks done with T5s

Whatcaneyedo, your tank to is very nice, 20 gal would be such a nice size. And the purple theme has a warm feel to it. Do you have it hooked up to a sump or on its own. And if its on its own do you have a hard time keeping it stable. Im wishing id had my 30 gallon set up for a sump and drilled before i cycled and put anything in it, but will just keep it in mind for future tanks, lol How long have you all been in the hobby for. Crazy how much so many of you know since their is so much to remember long term with these tanks.

Navarchus · #8 07-09-2009, 07:00 AM

whatcaneyedo · #9 07-09-2009, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by megs_clark

Whatcaneyedo, your tank to is very nice, 20 gal would be such a nice size. And the purple theme has a warm feel to it. Do you have it hooked up to a sump or on its own. And if its on its own do you have a hard time keeping it stable. Im wishing id had my 30 gallon set up for a sump and drilled before i cycled and put anything in it, but will just keep it in mind for future tanks, lol How long have you all been in the hobby for. Crazy how much so many of you know since their is so much to remember long term with these tanks.

The tank is drilled and connected to a 20gal rubbermaid tub sump. In the sump I've got an aqua C urchin Pro skimmer (really over sized for this tank but I already had it before I set up the tank), ATO float valve and heater. The return is a Mag 7 that pushes through a SCWD to two return jets in the tank. The salinity, temperature and cleanliness of the tank stays very constant.

I've been doing saltwater for 5 years.

I used to light this tank with a 10K 65W Coralife PC. After I switched the tank looked much brighter and I noticed the big pink leather opens up far more often now.