Salty_Northerner
Valuable Member
We went onto the AI Facebook group and got so much rubbish, as in everyone responded saying this and that, but nobody would match advice so we just left it.
People said the light setting was bland and basic among other things, WOW it was a harsh ride I tell ya!
Anyways the tank is the Waterbox 35.2
Dimensions
- 23.5" wide (across front panel)
- 17.5" deep (top to bottom)
- 14" (front glass to rear chamber) display volume
AI Prime 16 HD came with a 12" flex arm that was 6.5" off the water line.
We were able to get it to 8" off the water line so that's the max we can do with this arm.
What do you guys recommend for channel settings?
We used the Salty Pop's lighting schedule but didn't like the day time look.
The ramp up and ramp down looks amazing but that's all we liked and the CW was way to high IMHO @60%
So I have came up with my own schedule but not sure if we're driving it to hard or not hard enough?
I plan to rent a BRS Par meter but at $500usd deposit and convert that to Canadian dollars that's a lot of money to have sitting on hold when bills need to be paid.
I'd like some advice from someone that can guide me in the right direction and not give us misleading info or just winging it out there.
Sorry that sounded harsh but I mean no disrespect
We need a rough guideline on what's what.
Attached is my new lighting schedule.
Is this enough to drive some growth?
Note I also have this setting in Acclimation mode.
One side note corals are real sad looking and the Forest fire montipora has bad tissue recession.
Can't keep Nitrate not Phosphate in the water, and halted everything else except dosing and testing for these 2.
Everything else is now just letting the tank figure itself out with little intervention.
I'd like to nip this in the butt asap.
Advice?
People said the light setting was bland and basic among other things, WOW it was a harsh ride I tell ya!
Anyways the tank is the Waterbox 35.2
Dimensions
- 23.5" wide (across front panel)
- 17.5" deep (top to bottom)
- 14" (front glass to rear chamber) display volume
AI Prime 16 HD came with a 12" flex arm that was 6.5" off the water line.
We were able to get it to 8" off the water line so that's the max we can do with this arm.
What do you guys recommend for channel settings?
We used the Salty Pop's lighting schedule but didn't like the day time look.
The ramp up and ramp down looks amazing but that's all we liked and the CW was way to high IMHO @60%
So I have came up with my own schedule but not sure if we're driving it to hard or not hard enough?
I plan to rent a BRS Par meter but at $500usd deposit and convert that to Canadian dollars that's a lot of money to have sitting on hold when bills need to be paid.
I'd like some advice from someone that can guide me in the right direction and not give us misleading info or just winging it out there.
Sorry that sounded harsh but I mean no disrespect
We need a rough guideline on what's what.
Attached is my new lighting schedule.
Is this enough to drive some growth?
Note I also have this setting in Acclimation mode.
One side note corals are real sad looking and the Forest fire montipora has bad tissue recession.
Can't keep Nitrate not Phosphate in the water, and halted everything else except dosing and testing for these 2.
Everything else is now just letting the tank figure itself out with little intervention.
I'd like to nip this in the butt asap.
Advice?
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