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Posted by Alan Silver on May 9, 2005, 9:53 am
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>First off, I think that is ALOT of light for that tank.
I know, but the whole point of the tank is for it to be seen, and with
less light, it just doesn't show up. With the higher light, it looks
stunning.
Anyway, I would have thought this was fairly low compared with the
African sunshine, no? I don't know how that rates in wattage, but I can
look directly at the lights above my tank, I can't do that to the sun
here in England, so the African sun would be way brighter.
> If you must keep all
>that light then shorten the photo period (only put the lights on at night
>while you are home, no need for them to be on all day long.
Problem there is that the tank is in a room that is occupied most of the
day. Ideally we would like the lights on all day long as the room is
used from about 7:30am pretty much non-stop until about 11pm. We have
compromised and cut the photo period back to about 2pm to 10pm.
> Try to angle the
>lights so they are shining toward the back of the tank and not onto the
>front glass.
Already done that. The halogens were pointed more at the middle and back
of the tank. I just changes them for some less directional lights, but
they are still over the middle of the tank.
> Really no need for all that light on a Malawi setup, unless
>you're growing marijuana at the base of the tank :) HTH
I didn't know it grew under water!! Not that I want doped fish... unless
it might calm them down a bit!! I could do with getting Biffer to mellow
out a bit, he's always chasing the other fish around. Beautiful fish,
but a bully.
Thanks for the reply.
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Alan Silver
(anything added below this line is nothing to do with me)
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