Ok so a bit of an update followed by a bit on my lighting so you can see whats under my hood lol and what i plan to do as iv never really talked about my lighting and what im using.
k so update time
Fish all seem to be healthy and happy which is good. Still have no idea what killed my angel
I had to chop almost all of the leaves off my Echinodorus Ozelot as it melted away into nothing when i was away. Good news is it has sprouted 2 new shoots so its still alive and on the road to recovery
As for the slight case of BBA i came home too, well i chopped off all infected leaves and started dosing carbon on full recommended dosing straight away and hoped nothing would melt as a result. Luckily nothing did and their is no sign YET of the algae returning. I think as long as i dose EI, carbon and CO2 the BBA will never get a look in. So thats exactly what i plan to do
Lights
As some of you may know i have recently added 2 custom made LED light bars to the tank to give me high light
well here a little info on them and what im doing as iv not really spoke about them or how i light my tank
Each bar has 10X 3W white LEDs (6500K) and 9X 3W blue LEDs which come on after lights out. (Moonlighting)
Thats a total of 18 blue LEDs and 20 white. The total wattage of the whites combined is 60W, but im told 60W of high power LED light is the equivalent of 100W of T5 light.
These LEDs run along side my existing T5 lighting which is currently 4X 24W T5s (aqua one tropical bulbs) and 4X 39W T5s (aqua one tropical bulbs)
The total wattage of the T5s is 252W. The wattage of the T5s combined with the "100W" LEDs = a grand total of 352Watts!
And it doesn't stop there. lol I have room for one more light right at the front of my tank. Im planning on installing one last T5, a 54W (tropical bulb of course) using a Arcadia single light controller to power it which hopefully should be on order this Friday.
Heres the Arcadia light controller i plan to purchase for those of you interested..
http/www.ebay.co.uk/itm/220775276178?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
This will give me a new total wattage of 306Watts which will deeeeefinately put me in the high light category lol
The motivation behind this is that all my plant pearl like crazy except my dwarf sag lawn which is the lowest and hardest plant for the light to reach. You will pearl darn it, YOU WILL pearl if its the last thing i doooo!! Even if i hafta cook you alive under 306W of light, I WILL have the last laugh Mwhahahahahaha
Piccy time Enjoy
Here is the tank now with existing T5s, and LED light bars with the hood off