Well I've hammered the credit card again and bought some new lights for the tank, below are a couple of pictures and a question!
Setting it up was a bit tricky as my tank rim was too thick for the standard frame adapter so I had to by the large frame adapter from arcadia, even after getting that I had to do some DIY on it to make it fit the tank - It contains the following lamps;
2 x Actinic Blue T5 (12 hour photo period)
2 x 14,000K T5 (10 hour photo period)
I have a quick query the moonlighting effect looks great however when both sets of lights are on it does look a tad too (blue) should I be running both types of lamps simulatenously throughout the day, or should the blue Actinic be turned off when the 14,000k's kick in?
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Next up is the UV filter a 25 Watt Vecton - nothing too exciting about it but it certainly has reduced some algae growth
As usual all constructive comments welcomed :)
![Luminaire1.jpg](/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.livingreefs.com%2Fgallery%2Ffiles%2F1%2F0%2F9%2FLuminaire1.jpg&hash=5e0dced319f30282a7758ec9c0555b2e)
![Luminaire2.jpg](/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.livingreefs.com%2Fgallery%2Ffiles%2F1%2F0%2F9%2FLuminaire2.jpg&hash=6b6517b7b6bf5fc8947085e3a3781f79)
Setting it up was a bit tricky as my tank rim was too thick for the standard frame adapter so I had to by the large frame adapter from arcadia, even after getting that I had to do some DIY on it to make it fit the tank - It contains the following lamps;
2 x Actinic Blue T5 (12 hour photo period)
2 x 14,000K T5 (10 hour photo period)
I have a quick query the moonlighting effect looks great however when both sets of lights are on it does look a tad too (blue) should I be running both types of lamps simulatenously throughout the day, or should the blue Actinic be turned off when the 14,000k's kick in?
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Next up is the UV filter a 25 Watt Vecton - nothing too exciting about it but it certainly has reduced some algae growth
![UV.jpg](/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.livingreefs.com%2Fgallery%2Ffiles%2F1%2F0%2F9%2FUV.jpg&hash=dbba87c84aafdda32ed85259886c9edf)
As usual all constructive comments welcomed :)