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05-12-2008, 05:17 AM
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| | Sea Dragon
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: West Midlands,UK
Posts: 505
|  Mushroom lighting
I have a 20" deep tank with a hanging luminaire, i have 2x39 watt actinics & 4xwhite 39watts on around 10 hours a day, is this too much or to less for my watermelon mushrooms, i also have a piece of perspex that slides across the luminaire to protect the bulbs its about 3 mm thick can i expect to lose some light because of this? _________  | 
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05-12-2008, 06:11 AM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Manchester UK Age: 24
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mushrooms do well under most lighting conditions! _________ You will never know whats in my tank as i can only type 15 words  | |
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05-12-2008, 07:03 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami Age: 39
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From my exp. they like low to med lighting. I have have mine at the bottom(sand) and I have (2) 250w MH, tank is 24" deep and they look good. Just my 2 cents. Luna _________ 9YR OLD 90G 30G w/d Mag18 150G skimmer 692w MH,yel&kole tang,foxface,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Goniopora(2), Acropora(2),Brain, Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, R&G open brain, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, enias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew  | 
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05-12-2008, 01:08 PM
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| | Sea Dragon
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: West Midlands,UK
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Cheers, i put the actinics\blues on at 12.00 noon then a hourb after i turn on the whites, their on till 9.00pm then go off and the actinics/bluesstay on for another hour till 10.00pm,
blues on for 10 hours, 78watts
whites on for 8 hours, 156watts
Does this sound good or would you recommend them on longer or shorter hours??? | |
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05-12-2008, 01:18 PM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Manchester UK Age: 24
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Im no lighting expert but..... when i had my t5's i just had the blue and whites on at the same time.
I dont now tho as i have MH and T5 but when it was just T5 yep had them on at the same time!
I thought you bought a unit with 8 bulbs?? are you only using 6 of them? | |
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05-12-2008, 01:29 PM
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| | Sea Dragon
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: West Midlands,UK
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yes m8 only using 6 at the moment, all i have is a mushroom coral & few fish and inverts and was thinking this was more then enough for now, would you not agree? | |
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05-12-2008, 01:43 PM
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#7 (permalink)
| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Manchester UK Age: 24
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I would agree - 4 is prob enough hell even 2 - thats all i used when i had t5's and my mushrooms did great!
but be careful you dont get salt creep in the ballasts of the 2 not being used, this is what caused my t5 unit to totally break and consistantly blow fuses!
Last edited by phoenixhieghts : 05-12-2008 at 01:43 PM.
Reason: 4got ballasts
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05-12-2008, 02:04 PM
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#8 (permalink)
| | Sea Dragon
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: West Midlands,UK
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its ok my luminaire bulbs is covered with a piece of 3mm perspex that slides in tight nothing can get into the bulbs/ballasts, | |
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05-12-2008, 03:32 PM
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| | Zoanthid
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: valencia,pa. Age: 34
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i have 4 54watt t's over my 55gallon tank and i've been raising them higher cause its to much light for most of my mushrooms
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05-13-2008, 04:49 AM
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#10 (permalink)
| | Sea Dragon
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: West Midlands,UK
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Ziggy how deep is your tank m8? and how do you know the lighting is to much for your mushrooms i have 240watt shining on mine but i'm a newbie to corals so i don't know what to look... | |
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