My lighting
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monsinour
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I'll check out Grainger and see what they have.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Al&Burke http:///forum/thread/383308/my-lighting/40#post_3377056
Why don't you use a timer and just forget about the switch?
I would love to get the RKL-1 and solve this entire problem. But the missus says no to spending $100 on the system way to easily right now. Besides, I got other plans for the tax return this year. Who knows, maybe I can get a new PC.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Al&Burke http:///forum/thread/383308/my-lighting/40#post_3377056
Why don't you use a timer and just forget about the switch?
I would love to get the RKL-1 and solve this entire problem. But the missus says no to spending $100 on the system way to easily right now. Besides, I got other plans for the tax return this year. Who knows, maybe I can get a new PC.
monsinour
Active Member
So here is the next set of pics for the tank.
second change
white
ATI Blue +
white
ATI Blue +
Full
Left
Right
Bottom
A few things that I have noticed. I got to remember to turn that light off in the living room before I take pics. The blue tubs look blueer than before. The phosphoreseces (spel chek plese) of the coral shows up better when all the lights are on now. Before, you could only see it when just the night light LEDs were on. The colors of the "pink" zoos are popin, the "red" zoos are looking better. You may have noticed that one of the ricordeas are missing from the bottom pic. I guess someone got a little too vigourus with the cleaning of the tank glass and swooshed it to the corner of the tank. I gotta fix that tomorrow. Aside from the moving ric, all of the coral seem to be loving the new lights as they come out more than they had before.
I changed out one of the white for the purple + lamp this evening as I forgot what bulb was next. If it looks funny, I might change it out for the proper one in the sequence.
Does anyone see a difference in the corals in the pics?
second change
white
ATI Blue +
white
ATI Blue +
Full
Left
Right
Bottom
A few things that I have noticed. I got to remember to turn that light off in the living room before I take pics. The blue tubs look blueer than before. The phosphoreseces (spel chek plese) of the coral shows up better when all the lights are on now. Before, you could only see it when just the night light LEDs were on. The colors of the "pink" zoos are popin, the "red" zoos are looking better. You may have noticed that one of the ricordeas are missing from the bottom pic. I guess someone got a little too vigourus with the cleaning of the tank glass and swooshed it to the corner of the tank. I gotta fix that tomorrow. Aside from the moving ric, all of the coral seem to be loving the new lights as they come out more than they had before.
I changed out one of the white for the purple + lamp this evening as I forgot what bulb was next. If it looks funny, I might change it out for the proper one in the sequence.
Does anyone see a difference in the corals in the pics?
monsinour
Active Member
So here is the 3rd set of changes after a week + a day or 3.
white
ATI Blue +
ATI Purple +
ATI Blue +
Full
Left
Right
Bottom
I noticed the purple right away and when taking the pics tonight, I cant believe that I didnt notice the purple as much before. This did make the colors stand out more in the tank. The majority of the zoos have responded wonderfully to the new lights. When changing out the last bulb tonight, I forgot to kill power to the lights and when I plugged it all back in, I got a sneak peek at the final setup. Wow, is this going to be blue.
white
ATI Blue +
ATI Purple +
ATI Blue +
Full
Left
Right
Bottom
I noticed the purple right away and when taking the pics tonight, I cant believe that I didnt notice the purple as much before. This did make the colors stand out more in the tank. The majority of the zoos have responded wonderfully to the new lights. When changing out the last bulb tonight, I forgot to kill power to the lights and when I plugged it all back in, I got a sneak peek at the final setup. Wow, is this going to be blue.
monsinour
Active Member
Quote:
Originally Posted by 1guyDude http:///forum/thread/383308/my-lighting/40#post_3379227
So u still have one bulb to go monisour or is this it??? Does look diff ! Your right the colors deff pop more!
The Pics are with 3 ATI bulbs but I have all 4 installed now. I will see the tank with its new lighting tomorrow at 11 am.
Originally Posted by 1guyDude http:///forum/thread/383308/my-lighting/40#post_3379227
So u still have one bulb to go monisour or is this it??? Does look diff ! Your right the colors deff pop more!
The Pics are with 3 ATI bulbs but I have all 4 installed now. I will see the tank with its new lighting tomorrow at 11 am.
monsinour
Active Member
Last change. Adding the last bulb really made everything come together nicely. The purple hue is gone. The tank is bluer. The wife likes how thigns look. All in all, a great spending of money to get what we were after.
Last change
ATI Purple +
ATI Blue +
ATI Aquablue Special
ATI Blue +
full
left
right
bottom
Sorry about the fuzziness. It appears that some one with very little fingers got their fingers all over the camera lense making things look sooo rotten. I will clean the camera and take more pics tomorrow once the lights come on again. Just to see what colors can come out of the tank. These are the "red zoos" I got from SWF a while ago. They never looked red in my posession, but these colors are awesomesauce.
Last change
ATI Purple +
ATI Blue +
ATI Aquablue Special
ATI Blue +
full
left
right
bottom
Sorry about the fuzziness. It appears that some one with very little fingers got their fingers all over the camera lense making things look sooo rotten. I will clean the camera and take more pics tomorrow once the lights come on again. Just to see what colors can come out of the tank. These are the "red zoos" I got from SWF a while ago. They never looked red in my posession, but these colors are awesomesauce.
monsinour
Active Member
I need to clean/fix the digital camera to take better shots of it with the better lights. The difference is really incredible. I havent been to the LFS to get new critters/corals in a long time. Now that I have better lights, I can start to look at the xpensive corals. As long as my water says I can, LOL.