*** Some aspects of this manual apply only to this tank and its surrounding ***

To my children and friends willing to enjoy maintaining this tank and make its inhabitants happy.
Thank you!

Wednesday, 7 February 2018

Flickering lights

I have changed the design of this site and static pages that will be easier accessible by clicking the links located on the top of this site.

The menu on the right side consists of the posts related to changes in my tanks done over time and that timestamp is important to see how things changes - either progress toward development, or they go in a wrong direction and things die-off.

For some time, I noticed that my lights are flickering and some lines are visible on pictures and videos taken especially on the top of tank.  Also, I noticed that the quality of light is somehow not one I wanted.  The light is too sharp, too artificial.  I expected to be more mellow as it was in fluorescent tubes case.

I called the seller and I was asked to perform some tests.  I found that when lights are only connected to a power supply, they do not flicker.  So, it must be something fishy with a controller that governs the dimming process.  Some electronics must be wrong and must be replaced.  The lights cannot work on full power all the time - that is why a dimmer is used.  And dimmer cannot make lights flicker.  I heard that while lights are dimmed, they produced totally different spectrum of light and wrong one may actually harm the corals and make them loose color and be not developing as they could with a proper lightning.

Let me wait and see if the controller will be changed. 

Saturday, 6 January 2018

Changes in the macro-reef tank

Since the beginning of October 2017, I have experimented with different lights and some instructions in this manual did change or are not there at all. For instance, the is no hood over the tank and that is why there is different way of removing existing new lights from the top of tank. Also, I have another smaller tank with macros and ... gorgonias. Yes, I added gorgonias to both tanks and ... a lot of new macros.  I have to update my story about my new setups.  This will be done soon.