Oh, the actinics (usually around 10,000K)won't be much help to your plants. You
should replace 'em with lights which have more output in the phytoreactive range.
Prost,
Martin
Jackson, MS
Quoting Bruce Stallsmith <fundulus_at_hotmail.com>:
> I have a general query for the list, as kind of a spinoff to our recent
> threads on parasites and all. I've come into possession of a 135 gal. tank
> that was used as a coral reef tank. I'm setting it up as a Sipsey Fork of
> the Black Warrior River (N.W. AL) theme tank (burrhead, blacktail and
> silverstripe shiners, stonerollers, redspot darters,...). The tank is a
> really nice Oceanic Systems design, with corner uplift and overflow sleeves,
>
> and a sump tank that fits underneath in the cabinet. But I don't really want
>
> to use the sump, because it would interfere with my hopes to replicate river
>
> flow (it's a 6 ft. tank, the flow possibilities are many). I have 3-4 inches
>
> of medium coarse "builders sand" on the bottom, 120 pounds all told, that I
> spent much of last weekend washing out. And I have some serious reef-system
> lighting fixtures.
>
> So, my plan is to use a Marineland H.O.T. Magnum filter (250 gal/hr) as the
> primary filration, aeration and circulation device, with no sump. I've
> started to plant the tank too, before introducing fish. My question is
> whether anyone has experience running a large system with such a filtration
> system. I hope to get the live sand thang going, too, although of course
> that'll take time to get established.
>
> I've never had a tank larger than 55 gal. so this is a learning experience
> for me. I've been working in the 2.5 -- 15 gal. tank range over the past
> several years.
>
> Livestock-wise, I really wanted to keep some tuskaloosa darters, Eth.
> douglasi. But they're listed as S2, Imperiled, because they have such a
> small native range in the upper Black Warrior and Cahaba systems. Those of
> you who went on the Sipsey Fork trip at last June's NANFA convention know
> that tuskaloosa's are locally abundant in that system, but where we saw them
>
> is pretty much groundzero for their range. Oh well...
>
> --Bruce Stallsmith
> Huntsville, AL, US of A
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