PigDaddyF15E
Active Member
I have a 48" 100 Gallon Tank. 2 x AP9X's 13" in from the sides of the tank and centered front/back. 10" off the water.
In the next month or so I'll borrow/rent a PAR meter and annotate the photo above so I know what readings I have.
I'm following the recommendations for soft/LPS from the BRSTV video.
Right now all I've got is some GSP and Xenia near the bottom. Tank has been running for about six weeks now. I'm not going to be adding any other corals until after the holidays since I want to make sure the xenia/gsp is doing fine and hopefully some coralline algae will start to develop. The "plan" is some more soft or possible LPS coral and maybe a move in the distant future to some SPS.
My question is about the duration (discussed quite a bit) and/or ramp up/down settings (not discussed that much). seems to be lots of opinion and one thing I didn't really find from BRSTV or is how long to ramp up to your "noon/max/middle of day" settings? I'm using the Kessil moolight from 2000-0700. I took the default TB schedule and set my "middle of day" settings to the picture above. I didn't adjust the violet/red channels up/down during the day...only the INT as I ramped up/down. Should I also be adjusting the violet/red channels as starting near zero in the morning and then ramping up to the 20 V 4 R 0 G as noon then down as the "evening" progresses? or is it really the INT that is the "strength" of the light ?
One other thing I didn't know. I kinda assumed that the lights would slowly ramp up/down from one set point to another as the lines that connect one set point to another go up or down between the two points. If I put INT 100 at 1200 and then my next point was INT 50 AT 1700...I wrongly assumed it would slowly ramp itself down from 1200 - 1700 so it was at INT 50 at 1700. but no...it's instantaneous at 1700. In my settings below I could delete the 1600 set point as it's not needed. The lights would ramp up at 1200 and then instantly switch at the 1630 set point.
In the next month or so I'll borrow/rent a PAR meter and annotate the photo above so I know what readings I have.
I'm following the recommendations for soft/LPS from the BRSTV video.
Right now all I've got is some GSP and Xenia near the bottom. Tank has been running for about six weeks now. I'm not going to be adding any other corals until after the holidays since I want to make sure the xenia/gsp is doing fine and hopefully some coralline algae will start to develop. The "plan" is some more soft or possible LPS coral and maybe a move in the distant future to some SPS.
My question is about the duration (discussed quite a bit) and/or ramp up/down settings (not discussed that much). seems to be lots of opinion and one thing I didn't really find from BRSTV or is how long to ramp up to your "noon/max/middle of day" settings? I'm using the Kessil moolight from 2000-0700. I took the default TB schedule and set my "middle of day" settings to the picture above. I didn't adjust the violet/red channels up/down during the day...only the INT as I ramped up/down. Should I also be adjusting the violet/red channels as starting near zero in the morning and then ramping up to the 20 V 4 R 0 G as noon then down as the "evening" progresses? or is it really the INT that is the "strength" of the light ?
One other thing I didn't know. I kinda assumed that the lights would slowly ramp up/down from one set point to another as the lines that connect one set point to another go up or down between the two points. If I put INT 100 at 1200 and then my next point was INT 50 AT 1700...I wrongly assumed it would slowly ramp itself down from 1200 - 1700 so it was at INT 50 at 1700. but no...it's instantaneous at 1700. In my settings below I could delete the 1600 set point as it's not needed. The lights would ramp up at 1200 and then instantly switch at the 1630 set point.
Last edited:
