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@WWIII - I was going to give it a few more days to see if the nitrate goes does down.
My KH on the tank is 4.8 so was going to begin to slowly raise that while the cycle is underway.
I am figuring another week for it to stabilize not sure if I should ghost feed the bacteria or not.
Surprised at no algae bloom but that may because of no lights being on, so this weekend mount the lightbars and let the light begin on the tank.
Then the automation begins
@WWIII - sorry mistake on the Red Sea kit it was 0.
I did ghost feed today just to keep the bacteria feeding on something.
I plan to do it in both so users can go to one thread and see ghl configurations with some apex configurations where I can do the compare but here will be very specific GHL configurations and may do some step by step videos also.
So this weekend it begins the configuration steps
That's great, thanks for taking the time to go through all of this in such detail.What a great time at Reefapoolza, met some great people, some good conversations. Special call out to @Matthias Gross @Vinny@GHLUSA for spending extra time with me to answer all my questions!! I am looking forward to going next year.
With that said, now that the new tank is cycled it time to begin to hang some lights
I am using 160cm Light Bar 2(Mitras Lightbar 2 Actinic & Mitras Lightbar 2 Deep Actinic) from GHL, and 2 Mitras-Simu-Stick 95 also from GHL.
I am doing the same setup as my old tank, as I like the even lighting throughout the tank the Light Bar 2 have to offer, and the Mitras-Simu-Stick 95 will be used for Moonlight on the tank.
Flipping over my Tank Hood, I was easily able to mount them underneath the hood. I had to use a 2x4 so that I could have the Mitras-Simulation Sticks (Which overlapp in the middle of the tank) would shine light even and not be blocked by the Mitras lightbar 2.
Also trying to keep the wires as neat as Possible
Installation onto the Tank hood completed. When done they will be 8 inches above the water-line.
Still programming them, but this is at 40% power.
Mitras-Simulation Sticks
Programming
After you connect your Mitras-Simu to the Mitras Simu Driver (https://www.aquariumcomputer.com/usa/product/mitras-simu-driver-usacnd/) to P4 ports L Ports show on the arrow below you can begin to program the Simu Lights. You will be using two L ports for the Simu Lights.
Since I had my GHL Breeze on the Yellow Ports L1/L2 I am using on my P4 L3/L4 for one connection and L5/L6 for the other connection.
First your going to Create a Illumination Channel that is on 100% from 12:00am to 11:59pm. This is going to allow us to know what color simulation channel is on what L port.
Open GCC desktop software
Expand Illumination, and choose a illumination channel your not using and make it 100%. For me I am using channel 30. (Make sure you click Dimmable on the menu so you can enter a brightness)
To program a time for the channel click New and enter the time and the Brightness.
Now that we have a always on programmed let now figure out what L channel is what Simulation led channel.
Determining which Simulation LED channel is what L Channel.
Since I plugged mine into the P4, L3/L4 and L5/L6 are my simulation channels.
Click System
Click 1-10V Interface
Click L3
Choose Function Illumination, select Channel you are using to have the LED turn on at 100% for me Channel 30, place in your description Simu and click ok
Then click save, and look at your Simulation Led stick. One LED color should be on. For me it was Blue.
Go Back and Edit your L3 and lable the Description of Sumu - And the color it was for me it was Blue so mine was Simu - Blue
Do this 3 more times till on the other 3 channels. For me it was L4, L5 and l6. Repeat the steps.
Since I wanted my Blue Channel to be the Moon I program Illumination Channel 31 to be Moon lighting, and applied that Illumination channel to L3. (Make sure you click Dimmable, and if you want to use the P4 moon phases then click also dependable on moonphase)
I created a Illumination channel 32 to be dark and applied that to the channels I was not using for now
Overall very simple, easy to do. I will take some pictures tonight of the moon light.
Oh I forgot, moon light is seen in the simulation section of both the GCC desktop software and the GCC App and my GHL and the P4