Turtle's Deep Blue Sea

SashimiTurtle · Nov 11, 2017

Lights are dimming because they are about to turn off, but I bumped them into manual where they are at the peak and took a picture. Hey @saltyfilmfolks check this out. 2230EST, 4 1/2 hours after adding GAC and GFO... water is clear as crystal.
Thanks bro

;Turtle

saltyfilmfolks · Nov 11, 2017

Robin Haselden said:
Lights are dimming because they are about to turn off, but I bumped them into manual where they are at the peak and took a picture. Hey @saltyfilmfolks check this out. 2230EST, 4 1/2 hours after adding GAC and GFO... water is clear as crystal.
Thanks bro ;Turtle

Oh saweeet! No prob man!!

SashimiTurtle · Nov 11, 2017

Now I have something to do on my Saturday night.

Yes guys, that IS what you think it is.

SashimiTurtle · Nov 12, 2017

We finally spent some time with the new Seneye today.

It came in Thursday, but the tank has been really cloudy the past few days so we couldn't use it. I tested the lights at 100% intensity and 50% color. 60% color actually reports the highest PAR, but it's a bit too white for my tastes. 30% is my favorite color setting but PAR drops off just a little bit. We will probably run 30% anyway as we have a long lighting interval. Here's the numbers.

Oh I do have the lights over the middle of the tank, but tilted towards the back of the tank. This gives us the best possible coverage as most of my scape for the higher light corals is in the back of the tank.

Scurvy · Nov 12, 2017

Nice! So thats at 100/30? How high off the water?

I just started using a seneye too. I was pretty happy with it as a tool. Not so happy with what I discovered though.

saltyfilmfolks · Nov 12, 2017

Set the color you like and adjust intensity.

saltyfilmfolks · Nov 12, 2017

Scurvy said:
Nice! So thats at 100/30? How high off the water?

I just started using a seneye too. I was pretty happy with it as a tool. Not so happy with what I discovered though.

What did you discover?

SashimiTurtle · Nov 12, 2017

Tests were done at 100% intensity, 50% color. All pumps turned off.

Scurvy · Nov 12, 2017

saltyfilmfolks said:
What did you discover?

That i was well under 100 Par at the sand and the areas I expected i was near 250/300 i was closer to a 200 average.

Wound up lowering the fixture to 6” from surface for a small boost and ordered a new light to timately replace this one.

Katrina71 · Nov 12, 2017

Gosh. I just pushed a button on mine

saltyfilmfolks · Nov 12, 2017

Robin Haselden said:
Tests were done at 100% intensity, 50% color. All pumps turned off.

50 color is your preferred ? And it didn't seem like it was enough?

saltyfilmfolks · Nov 12, 2017

Katrina71 said:
Gosh. I just pushed a button on mine

Oh great , the t5 koolaide has arrived.
We have more buttons than you. We don't always know what they do. But we have more.
Cuz more.

Katrina71 · Nov 12, 2017

I shave my legs, so there!

SashimiTurtle · Nov 12, 2017

I'm going to do some more testing here shortly... what I found is 60% color is the most PAR. Anything on either side of that the PAR drops just a bit. 30% color is my preferred setting. Anything higher than 50% and sticks look brown. Lower than 30% and eveything is just blue. I'm gonna play with the frag tank too and see how I like different colors. I know at 60% my blue stag is a brown stag.

saltyfilmfolks · Nov 12, 2017

Hahaa.

saltyfilmfolks · Nov 12, 2017

Robin Haselden said:
I'm going to do some more testing here shortly... what I found is 60% color is the most PAR. Anything on either side of that the PAR drops just a bit. 30% color is my preferred setting. Anything higher than 50% and sticks look brown. Lower than 30% and eveything is just blue. I'm gonna play with the frag tank too and see how I like different colors. I know at 60% my blue stag is a brown stag.

At 30 do you get the par you want?

You're correct "white" has more par but that's irrelevant a bit as white has a few more colors a par meter reads but we don't need.

Once you get the apperant par, and color , then it's time to consider the pur in that choice.
No, not the meter. Jury is still out on the seney pur. (That gets real complicated for a number of reasons , and I don't shave my legs)

SashimiTurtle · Nov 12, 2017

Give me a bit and I'll have a bunch of info for you at 30% color where I am happy. I know the seneye reports higher PUR at bluer spectrums. Jumps from under 60 at 100% to around 90% I think at 0%. Don't quote that yet.

saltyfilmfolks · Nov 12, 2017

Fwiw, Dana Riddle is analizing the seney pur. He indicates that its readings are set for generalist Zooox

By indicate, I mean he talks like Yoda.

And yea, pur for most general zooox / coral is blue weighted. Ie ocean and sky light.

SashimiTurtle · Nov 12, 2017

saltyfilmfolks said:
Fwiw, Dana Riddle is analizing the seney pur. He indicates that its readings are set for generalist Zooox

By indicate, I mean he talks like Yoda.

And yea, pur for most general zooox / coral is blue weighted. Ie ocean and sky light.

Red spectrum the Kessil has not. Blue spectrum it is heavy.

siggy · Nov 12, 2017

Robin Haselden said:
Honestly it doesn't have a strong odor. I have to get on top of the tank or in the sump to smell it. Smells like the pukani, so I'm guessing it's just built up dead organics...

How much GFO and GAC do you recommend?

saltyfilmfolks said:
I'd bet it's the diatoms then.

Your using it pretty passively , so a couple tablespoons of gfo.

5-6 of the gac.

Hello All, I see The Deep Blue was giving you the blu's for a minute, literally an amazing comeback. So a noob question here... GAC ? and GFO usage, I'm having a spike of nutrients and algae and was thinking of running
GFO and carbon then someone mentioned loss of corals? what gives?