Aquarium Lighting

[vetteguy53081]

Me

Has anyone had their AI Prime HD lenses melt?

not personally but I’ve seen it and often being light too close to glass

 

[Melissa31595]

With the addition of @Dana Riddle to the community we have created a new lighting specific forum. We still have the LED Lighting specific forum and will keep that as is for now. General lighting threads usually have been created in the general equipment forum but now will have it's on forum. We will begin to move lighting threads to this new forum.

Please post all lighting specific topics accordingly!

We are looking to find new lights for our 125g reef tank. Our current lights are wimpin out on us so we are looking for new ones. Any suggestions on type?

 

[Melissa31595]

Has anyone had their AI Prime HD lenses melt?

Yup! All 3 of mine did. It’s apparently a common issue. You would think the manufacturers would fix that but whatever.

 

[vetteguy53081]

We are looking to find new lights for our 125g reef tank. Our current lights are wimpin out on us so we are looking for new ones. Any suggestions on type?

Three Ai Hydras or 3 noopsyche K7 pros
Or
3-4 Orphek OR3-150 (sky blue and blue plus

 

[Melissa31595]

Three Ai Hydras or 3 noopsyche K7 pros
Or
3-4 Orphek OR3-150 (sky blue and blue plus

Thank you!

 

[justlooking]

My coralife trichromatic 6500k f30-t8-bp 36" bulb just went dead. What would people suggest I get to replace it? I cant seem to find the same bulb so something similar will do that I can get quickly

 

[vetteguy53081]

OR

My coralife trichromatic 6500k f30-t8-bp 36" bulb just went dead. What would people suggest I get to replace it? I cant seem to find the same bulb so something similar will do that I can get quickly

3-90 light bars (sky blue and blue combo or pair of Ai Hydra 26 or 32hd

 

[justlooking]

OR

3-90 light bars (sky blue and blue combo or pair of Ai Hydra 26 or 32hd

Thanks for the quick response, you have a good link for a spot to get them quickly?

 

[justlooking]

I see those but am looking at a bulb to just fit in my current fixture

 

[vetteguy53081]

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I see those but am looking at a bulb to just fit in my current fixture

Try live aquaria, AquaCave.com and ebay as these bulbs are less common

 

[Cichlid Dad]

https://www.chewy.com/zoo-med-6500k-ultra-sun-t8/dp/344964

Is this what you are looking for

 

[justlooking]

Yes even though I am not sure why its listed as 25x36. I have a 46 bow so wouldnt mind getting a newer light system to upgrade my existing hood but would want it to fit the length of the tank

 

[Cichlid Dad]

Yes even though I am not sure why its listed as 25x36. I have a 46 bow so wouldnt mind getting a newer light system to upgrade my existing hood but would want it to fit the length of the tank

Is this a reef tank?

 

[justlooking]

Is this a reef tank?

Salt water but not reef

 

[Cichlid Dad]

Salt water but not reef

Gogailen Odyssea T5 Dual Marine Aquarium Light FOWLR Cichlid (48") https://a.co/d/0Eu2UpS. Try this

 

[Cichlid Dad]

Salt water but not reef

Odyssea T5 Dual 6500K Aquarium Light Freshwater Plant Extendable (48") https://a.co/d/6MwxzzL
Or this for a more yellow. I would recommend the salt water t5 as it will be better for keeping algae under control

 

[oreo54]

Yes even though I am not sure why its listed as 25x36. I have a 46 bow so wouldnt mind getting a newer light system to upgrade my existing hood but would want it to fit the length of the tank

25 watts 36"
Not sure why it's that low in wattage.

T8 Ultra Sun® Super Daylight | Zoo Med Laboratories, Inc.

zoomed.com

 

[vetteguy53081]

25 watts 36"
Not sure why it's that low in wattage.

T8 Ultra Sun® Super Daylight | Zoo Med Laboratories, Inc.

zoomed.com

Orphek OR3-90 is 36”

Same CC applies to reef breeder light bar and even reefbrite light bars

 

[nano reef]

Anyone use Noopsyche k7 11? I am running the lps mode and was recently given the schedule by noopsyche manufacturer in China. Couldnt get it from USA and had I of known what it was I would have switch back when I got well!

Long story but was very sick and heading to hospital and lost the program some how and couldnt remember what I was running, so just quickly set LPS.

I actually thought it was high par because it was shutting of with whites on.

The schedule is as follows
0.01 whatever that is! there is no such military time

Channels 1 wh 2 bl 3 bl 4 uv 5 r/g mix
0.01 0 0 0 0 0
9000 0 10 10 2 0
1000 1 30 30 5 2
1100 3 60 60 8 0
1800 1 50 50 5 0
1900 0 50 50 3 0
2359 0 0 0 0 0

I recently bought a par meter and found out that my corals are mostly sitting in lower par then they require. Cant believe this is an LPS schedule!

I dropped my meter in tank for a sec and its a goner LOL. Waiting for a new one to arrive and super ticked at my self but I do know from notes that my par for the majority of the time is always below 100 like an example torchs at 82 and hammers 65 @1;45 pm 10:35am hammer torches 70 ect

I know the smart thing to do is bump it up slowly but the problem is its a 14 hours schedule! So that makes me wonder if it better to run lower par for longer periods or change it complety to 12 hour like I was running before and bump up the par more!

Before I changed it I ran 12 white and 72 blues and same uv. There lps schedule runs low uv though.


I have a huge order coming in in a little over a week. Timing really bad but they been holding my order since feb before I knew my par was low! Last order that came in I did have some die might be from this schedule so I dont want to loose this 1,8k order! Definitely lower par corals did better! Like acans and blasto ect but I have hammers and torches.


Advice please.

Love to hear from some noopsyche k7 pro 11 people. No one seems to answer my posts!

 

[vetteguy53081]

Anyone use Noopsyche k7 11? I am running the lps mode and was recently given the schedule by noopsyche manufacturer in China. Couldnt get it from USA and had I of known what it was I would have switch back when I got well!

Long story but was very sick and heading to hospital and lost the program some how and couldnt remember what I was running, so just quickly set LPS.

I actually thought it was high par because it was shutting of with whites on.

The schedule is as follows
0.01 whatever that is! there is no such military time

Channels 1 wh 2 bl 3 bl 4 uv 5 r/g mix
0.01 0 0 0 0 0
9000 0 10 10 2 0
1000 1 30 30 5 2
1100 3 60 60 8 0
1800 1 50 50 5 0
1900 0 50 50 3 0
2359 0 0 0 0 0

I recently bought a par meter and found out that my corals are mostly sitting in lower par then they require. Cant believe this is an LPS schedule!

I dropped my meter in tank for a sec and its a goner LOL. Waiting for a new one to arrive and super ticked at my self but I do know from notes that my par for the majority of the time is always below 100 like an example torchs at 82 and hammers 65 @1;45 pm 10:35am hammer torches 70 ect

I know the smart thing to do is bump it up slowly but the problem is its a 14 hours schedule! So that makes me wonder if it better to run lower par for longer periods or change it complety to 12 hour like I was running before and bump up the par more!

Before I changed it I ran 12 white and 72 blues and same uv. There lps schedule runs low uv though.


I have a huge order coming in in a little over a week. Timing really bad but they been holding my order since feb before I knew my par was low! Last order that came in I did have some die might be from this schedule so I dont want to loose this 1,8k order! Definitely lower par corals did better! Like acans and blasto ect but I have hammers and torches.


Advice please.

Love to hear from some noopsyche k7 pro 11 people. No one seems to answer my posts!

I have k-2 but have my own settings