180 lighting sugestion Lumenarc owners

[ireefny]

in efforts to cut my electric bill, I have experimented in cutting photo period & actually eleminating my middle Lumenarc set up.

I have a regular 180 AGA with corner overfows, 6' long & 2' wide ,devided by two braces forcing me to get three reflectors hunged in the conventional method. Lumenarc clains a 30" spread & this was the main purpose of buying this reflector. hanging this reflector leveled ceates alot of traped heat that then is transmited to our tanks, I guess this is why they came out with a newer vented version. my tanks temp shot up to 87 deg at one time that I had to turn the lights off.

tilting my reflectors (30 deg angle) that they almost face each other vented the Lumenarcs and elimenated the dark spot in the middle of the tank. & droping my LIPA bill too. I will try to take some shots later when my lights turn on

growth appeared the same as noted in a 2-3 month period.




also, moonlights are an awsome idea too, but it used to be that we needed several strands to produce a desired effect, by the deflecting one blue LED to the Lumenarc reflector.....well try this tonight & Im sure you will be happily surprised

 

[ireefny]

lights on

 

[reefman]

good idea. i had the same idea with tilting n provided better spread. i just change out to L3 a month ago.
where r u mounting the moonlights? do u have any clams?

 

[cali_reef]

do u have any clams?

I see three, but not for long :knockedou :lol2:

 

[PalmTree]

Wow thats a good idea. Are your MH 400watts? I see that you are not using any other supplemental actinics.

 

[ireefny]

Iam using 14K 250W Hamiltons run by Ice Caps.

4 clams, & 1 Majestic angel....thanks for noting Cali. Pecan did say he will either wind up with 4 clams or 1 fish eventually.

moon lights are mounted on a 1/2 pvc resting on top front of the tank, you ill see in the pics. mibble moonlight has no reflector so its kinda like a spotlight.

 

[samksy]

Dex, thanks for the ideas and pics.

Nice collections of fishes.
How long did you have the fat head anthias?

 

[ireefny]

fathead was there about 3 mo. now, thanks a group buy. he eats with the rest of the comunity

 

[pecan2phat]

What's a mibble

 

[ireefny]

What's a mibble

its the thing you had surgically removed:teeth: