![]() ![]() ![]() GH 10 (after adding a lot of CaCl2 and Epsom Salts. KH 6 (up from a natural 1.0 by adding baking soda) I really appreciate the time you prolific contributers make here!! - Chris in Durham, NC (Raleigh Aquarium Society member) Still too much? Any other suggestions for my setup? Anyone? If I yank one bulb, I get 480W for the 180G (2.7 wpg). After a few hours I got some very nice mist and lots of pearling (even some on the swords).īased upon FF's post, I assume I would be better off with less light. So I doubled the bubble count and improved the general circulation. The pH/KH ratio told me there was a lot of CO2, but I wasn't seeing any pearling and my internal reactor w/venturi loop wasn't misting. I was already at stagnant/slow growth with lots of brush algae before these changes and now I am experiencing a BGA bloom.ĭepressed, I did a lot of Barr Report reading yesterday and decided to attack the problem by cranking up the CO2. ![]() Icecap ballasts allow some long life in VHOs), lowered the lights closer to the tank (from 4" to 2"), and removed the glass panes that used to sit in-between (I built a new canopy that allowed the latter two moves). I recently replaced the bulbs bulbs (all 3 years old. I am running a 180G with 640W (3.555wpg) of VHO lighting (10+ hours a day). Frolicsome_Flora wrote that "4.6wpg Waaaaaaay too much light" and then went on to describe the downside (the rest of FF's is below). I was reading another recent thread and wanted to pursue a topic that was discarded early on. ![]()
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