kinetic
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After over 3 years with an AI Hydra 52HD, set to a pretty high setting and with cool whites cranked up (because I really disliked the look otherwise), I upgraded to a Reefi Uno with some standard SPS lighting program.
I have one chromis (killed the rest off early on), an orchid dottyback, and two clowns who live in a magnifica. They've been living well in the tank for the 3+ years now, but the chromis was always in the corner near the food, never swam around. The dottyback was always in the rockwork, never came out. The clowns, well, they just hang out in the nem. Even during feeding, they would usually not even approach the feeder, and wait for food to float by instead.
I figured they seemed healthy and fed, so it was fine.
Now with the new light, my chromis does laps around the tank all day, and my orchid dotty back comes out and swims around often as well. When the feeder was about to go off, I saw all the fish (except one of the clowns) swimming around waiting for the food eagerly.
The only difference is, the lights are a lot less "white" and I've kept them pretty blue.
OK, and admittedly there's one other thing that changed, but doubt it's doing anything, is I restarted my algae reactor with chaeto + dosing 3ml of Brightwell Chaetogro using my DOS doser. It runs on a reverse photo period.
Does the light really affect fish that much? Do they feel like they're "deeper" so they come out more because it's bluer? Could it be because the ph or something is more stable because of the reverse photo period with chaeto? Maybe the slight addition of chaetogro is freaking them out?
I have one chromis (killed the rest off early on), an orchid dottyback, and two clowns who live in a magnifica. They've been living well in the tank for the 3+ years now, but the chromis was always in the corner near the food, never swam around. The dottyback was always in the rockwork, never came out. The clowns, well, they just hang out in the nem. Even during feeding, they would usually not even approach the feeder, and wait for food to float by instead.
I figured they seemed healthy and fed, so it was fine.
Now with the new light, my chromis does laps around the tank all day, and my orchid dotty back comes out and swims around often as well. When the feeder was about to go off, I saw all the fish (except one of the clowns) swimming around waiting for the food eagerly.
The only difference is, the lights are a lot less "white" and I've kept them pretty blue.
OK, and admittedly there's one other thing that changed, but doubt it's doing anything, is I restarted my algae reactor with chaeto + dosing 3ml of Brightwell Chaetogro using my DOS doser. It runs on a reverse photo period.
Does the light really affect fish that much? Do they feel like they're "deeper" so they come out more because it's bluer? Could it be because the ph or something is more stable because of the reverse photo period with chaeto? Maybe the slight addition of chaetogro is freaking them out?
