any experience with lunar cycle timers?

Bruce, how do you like your incandescent moon lights? Do the corals floresce with these? Also are they too bright or do you use a dimmer? Ok, one last question  Do you use the lunar cycle on the neptune?

Thanks,

Mike

xokay wrote: Anybody have any experience with that led lunar cycle timer setup thing? I'm getting one unless someone knows of something better.

Why get that? It's a fancy gadget that serves no useful purpose, IMO.

Something better...tell us about your tank and I'm sure we could suggest something. Increased circulation, a wave or surge device, live food, etc, etc.

Mark Peterson wrote: xokay wrote: Anybody have any experience with that led lunar cycle timer setup thing? I'm getting one unless someone knows of something better. Why get that? It's a fancy gadget that serves no useful purpose, IMO. Something better...tell us about your tank and I'm sure we could suggest something. Increased circulation, a wave or surge device, live food, etc, etc.

Already bought it : ) I thought it was cool enough to spend the money on, it's like a living self-varying night light and I heard it can be good for coral spawning or something, plus it just seems like it'd add more realism to the tank inhabitants and scheme even if only aesthetic.

Feel free to give me more suggestions on what to buy for my tank though! A week ago maybe I put in a SCWD closed loop submerged in the tank under the sand with a Mag 7 running it. The mag 7 is incredibly loud and the flow is pretty weak in my opinion, but then it looks strong when blowing against the algae that's starting to grow on the rocks.

That and my Mag 3 return are the only circulators I have in the main tank. Do I need more? Right now I'm only planning on softies like xenia and those green star polyps that I saw in your main window tank. Maybe an anenome and a clam if there's one that doesn't need MH and can subsist on my pc/indirect window combination.

Below I have a big refugium/sump that looks like it might be 20/10 gallons with a 3" dsb of mostly oolitic in the 20g refugium part (maybe for mangroves in the future if I can increase the humidity/temp back there [I'm thinking of putting a plastic semi-covering cap over the sump to create a mini-sauna/tropical rainforest]) Then I have a CPR HOB mini refugium that intakes from the main fuge and outflows into the sump where I'd like to grow some macroalgae or something else. 3 or 4" of oolitic in there too. Maybe it's 2.5g? In my sump I have the Mag 3 return along with a CPR skimmer that I don't have running yet (need another venturi adapter that's coming tomorrow) and if I need to I might put the turbofloto 1000 in later).

I have lots of water oxygenation going on via major ripples going on in the maintank due to 2 1/8" anti-siphon holes right at the surface from the return, a 2" water fall from the mini-fuge outlet into the sump. I don't mind the trickling/gurgling noises they make, they're kind of soothing.

hmm, that's all I can think of right now. My tank's still cycling with high nitrites.

where'd you go mark?

Still haven't received the lights but I'll keep you posted.