Could I Get Away With 3 AI Sol?

[RedCoralEdmonton]

As for strength, I've had my 5 units 18 inches over the 225 (72,24,30deep) for 4 weeks now, and they are running at 70 white and 100 both blues for over a week now, everything is growing like mad, I did have some cyano on the sand for a bit, but I just broke out the Hanna checker and found out that my gfo needed to be changed, sitting at .22 phosphates..... So ditched the gfo and put in some foz down and the next day cyano almost gone..... So it wasn't the lights causing the algae, but an underlying problem of phosphates.....

Steve

[Parker]

Originally Posted by RedCoralEdmonton

As for strength, I've had my 5 units 18 inches over the 225 (72,24,30deep) for 4 weeks now, and they are running at 70 white and 100 both blues for over a week now, everything is growing like mad, I did have some cyano on the sand for a bit, but I just broke out the Hanna checker and found out that my gfo needed to be changed, sitting at .22 phosphates..... So ditched the gfo and put in some foz down and the next day cyano almost gone..... So it wasn't the lights causing the algae, but an underlying problem of phosphates.....

Steve

I saw the tank at the store yesterday, SOL's or SOL blues?

[MarkoD]

Originally Posted by Parker

I saw the tank at the store yesterday, SOL's or SOL blues?

they're all SOL blue now

[lorenz0]

One my 48x18 footprint I'm only planning on running 2. look into changing out your 40 degree optic lenses to something with more spread like 70 or 80. should reduce the spot light effect

[Parker]

Marco did you go with the blues?

[MarkoD]

Originally Posted by Parker

Marco did you go with the blues?

Yeah I did. I didn't realize there was others

[Parker]

My wife gave me the go ahead to buy 3 for now. We'll see how it works out.