No I don’t plan on having lots of fishes. I looked into it some more after your reply yesterday and I didn’t even think about how even with the gate valve the flow would fluctuate depending on the other things plugged into the manifolds. Should I reduce the manifold down to 2 for GFO and Carbon or keep it at 3 in case I need some other type of reactor later on. TBH I don’t even know what kind of reactors are out there other than carbon and GFO
Based on this, @MarcosDelgado0 let me ask Telegraham about it too see what he recommends
Following along, as I have the same lights, I haven't ran the 150s longer than an hour only to get par readings. I have a 50 watt, On my im15 i've run several months no issues however. I'm hoping this isnt a issue with the power supplies for the 150s they are $50 bucks wouldn't be fun needing to replace those.
Thank you!!
Beautiful tank! I am going to end up running the Nicrews just gotta figure out how to mount them because they can’t be mounted to the tank with my current setup. The two I have are running on the dart frog tank in my living room which is complete overkill, so I’ll switch those out with some basic plant growing LEDs
If you didn’t toss them away and you got them new they came with a wire hanging kit. I used that to suspended them a inch from the top of my canopy in the hood. They are very strong wires, with a little thought you should easily be able to suspended them over the tank. You could do the ceiling as well if you ensure you tap into one of the ceiling studs. You could also make a temporary wooded 2x4 frame until you figure out something that works better.
I think I still have those somewhere I’ll have to double check. Do you know how to check for ceiling studs? I’m guessing one of those stud finder thingies?
That too, but you could also measure from the corner of the wall and ceiling their should be a ceiling rafter every 16 inches apart per building code for refrence. Measure in two spots for a straight line of the stud same as cutting a sheet of plywood. However Harbor freight has the stud finders for like $10 bucks and Amazon shouldn't be much more. I think that would be the fool proof easy way lol. What I mentioned above is how they were found before stud finders were a thing.
If you want to go the easy route, just use a ceiling hook. Get a dry wall anchor type. The light's aren't that heavy. Little old houseplant ladies (that includes me) hang plants using those. This potted plant is at least 10+ lbs. Even heavier when freshly watered.
+1. Hooks + Anchors + fishing line is the way to go IMO. From my build thread:
Thank you! I actually do need something like that. I didn’t think about it till they were hung up but the cords hanging down definitely bother me
Something else to consider to help get them centered, is to hang a 1x4 off the two hooks. Then attach the lights to the 1x4 wherever you desire.
