Colin's 150g Tank Build

[Snufflupagus]

Originally Posted by kien

Looks great Colin, wow! Are those AI SOLs over your tank?

Hey Kien, thanks, I'm starting to be super pleased! Yes those are AI SOL's over my tank. Seem to be growing my SPS nicely too. These pictures area little bit older, the corals are quite a bit larger now.

[kien]

Originally Posted by Snufflupagus

Hey Kien, thanks, I'm starting to be super pleased! Yes those are AI SOL's over my tank. Seem to be growing my SPS nicely too. These pictures area little bit older, the corals are quite a bit larger now.

Cool. My light fixture is acting wonky on me these days. I'm hoping I just need new T5 bulbs but it may end up being a bigger problem. If so, I'll be on the hunt for a new light setup..

[Snufflupagus]

Originally Posted by kien

Cool. My light fixture is acting wonky on me these days. I'm hoping I just need new T5 bulbs but it may end up being a bigger problem. If so, I'll be on the hunt for a new light setup..

Well I hope new T5 bulbs work for you, but I must say I love my lights and they are growing both LPS and SPS great in my tank. They were easy to program and easy to figure out the levels the lights needed to be at, but like all the threads have said, start low and increase slowly, I had a few SPS burn at the start because I was to high, but they are coming back now after many months of staying white.

[explor3r]

Looking very good there, if you dont mind sharing your light intensity very curious to see whats working for you. I used to have 4 SOLS over my 72x30x22 tank and I went back to T5s (60" 8x80w ATI) and sometimes I regret it but sometimes I don't...lol I miss the pop out .

[Snufflupagus]

Originally Posted by explor3r

Looking very good there, if you dont mind sharing your light intensity very curious to see whats working for you. I used to have 4 SOLS over my 72x30x22 tank and I went back to T5s (60" 8x80w ATI) and sometimes I regret it but sometimes I don't...lol I miss the pop out .

Sure I can no problem! Personally I love these LED lights and I've never had a major problem with them. Here is what I'm using for my light schedule, I've been thinking about changing the length of on time, but right now everything is working so why change right?

8:00am w0b04r04 10min ramp
9:30am w03b07r07 10min ramp
10:30am w20b27r25 10min ramp
11:30am w45b35r30 14min ramp
4:00pm w50b40r43 10min ramp
8:00pm w20b33r22 10min ramp
8:30pm w08b30r30 5min ramp
10:00pm w0b10r10 5min ramp
11:00pm w0b0r0 10min ramp

I've had these setting for a long time now, at least 6 months and the corals love it...I am slowly moving my 4:00pm white intensity up, I'd like to get it to around 60, but I'm doing this very slowly.

Anymore questions please let me know.

[explor3r]

Originally Posted by Snufflupagus

Sure I can no problem! Personally I love these LED lights and I've never had a major problem with them. Here is what I'm using for my light schedule, I've been thinking about changing the length of on time, but right now everything is working so why change right?

8:00am w0b04r04 10min ramp
9:30am w03b07r07 10min ramp
10:30am w20b27r25 10min ramp
11:30am w45b35r30 14min ramp
4:00pm w50b40r43 10min ramp
8:00pm w20b33r22 10min ramp
8:30pm w08b30r30 5min ramp
10:00pm w0b10r10 5min ramp
11:00pm w0b0r0 10min ramp

I've had these setting for a long time now, at least 6 months and the corals love it...I am slowly moving my 4:00pm white intensity up, I'd like to get it to around 60, but I'm doing this very slowly.

Anymore questions please let me know.

Thanks for taking the time to answer I do love AI SOLs too got good experiences with them.

[Snufflupagus]

Originally Posted by explor3r

Thanks for taking the time to answer I do love AI SOLs too got good experiences with them.

Your welcome. My high time light setting is slowly going up, going to get to 65% or so, but it'll take some time as going slow is very important.