Aqua Illumination Vega!!

[TwistedMind]

I would recommend turning them down even more.

id start around 25% and work your way up 5% per 24 hours. It might look the same to our eyes but I promise the light is much more intent to the livestock.

My mazarras bleached all the algea and killed the coraline on all my snails in 48 hours. lol, now I have some white margarite snails crusing my rocks which the algea is eaither bleached or dead on the rocks.

after a week I am running mine at 65 % and I think it's still to much, gunne try 60 % tomorrow and see what happens.

[350gt]

At that height he should be alright in the 40's imo..... I started in the 30's at that height and should have started a little higher...


I would keep the whites 20 below the blues.. and other colors, dont under estimate the white, its powerful. And the whites are 5 watt now right? I would be even more careful with them being more powerful...


this is just from my experience with the Ai's

[zerreissen]

I lowered the lights to 9" off the water. I also dropped the whites to 20% and kept the rest at 40%. Everything is looking happy so far. I'll start increasing them next week.

We keep our house at 78 degrees during the day. With the halide/vho setup, I was seeing the tank max out at 83 some days. Yesterday, the tank didn't get above 80 (although it was also cooler outside). I'm also seeing at least 5 kWh in energy savings on our electricity yesterday (not factoring our AC), compared with previous days this week.

All around I'm very happy with the lights.

[Big_Pun]

what pumps are you using for return and skimmer and circulation? may be time to upgrade those to reduce heat.

[350gt]

What happened to the disco effect?......




Chris which pump would you recommend to replace a mag 9.5..

[Big_Pun]

I love all my sicce pumps, they are low wattage and quiet. a lot of people complain about noise but I don't think they have them mounted right and sometimes hard plumping will transfer vibration. if you don't really need that much flow a #3 would be good if not a 4.... sorry didn't mean to hijack thread but I figured it could help you with heat issues

[zerreissen]

I'm using a Mag 12. I've thought about moving to a Sicce, just not high on my priority list yet. I've been itching to switch over to LEDs and when the Vegas came out, I jumped on them.

[zerreissen]

What happened to the disco effect?......

Still there, not as bad though. It's the reds and greens that are causing it though...

[350gt]

Would love to see the specs on them.....

Any chance you might be borrowing the par meter soon?

[Ms_Big_Pun]

hey chris at the last meeting alton did a great presentation and one thing we discussed is as pump get old they start to wear out and draw more energy which can mean more heat so an old pump even if its working may be running at less capacity and run hot

( sorry emilys comp isnt signing her out still big_pun)