Added new lights and engineer goby is going nuts

Jmobley · Feb 5, 2020

Just added a 60 watt fluval programmable led light and my engineer gobi has emerged and is swimming around in the open. I haven’t seen Him in about 3-4 years until yesterday, nothing has changed but the new light. This is such strange behavior for him that I’m worried he’s sick, is this normal behavior after a lighting upgrade? I’m just starting a reef so no corals are present yet, and the other fish have been there for year and are behaving normally.

W1ngz · Feb 5, 2020

What did you upgrade from, and are you running the new light full blast right away, or starting low and bumping up the intensity a little bit every couple of days?

Jmobley · Feb 5, 2020

W1ngz said:
What did you upgrade from, and are you running the new light full blast right away, or starting low and bumping up the intensity a little bit every couple of days?

30 watts of 10000k led, just generic display lighting really, until now I have only done FOLR aquariums, I also have a sump with a plant growing led for algae growth.

Jmobley · Feb 5, 2020

Jmobley said:
30 watts of 10000k led, just generic display lighting really, until now I have only done FOLR aquariums, I also have a sump with a plant growing led for algae growth.

As for light timing, I kept the factory preset intensity but I shortened the daylight time in the cycle and was going to gradually lengthen it over time.