Nova Extreme Pro

[reeffreak]

I think your eyes finally adjusted.At first,I thought it was too blue and a month later I thought it wasn't bluish enough.

[hotimportknight]

That could be it, my friends tank looks a lot less blue now.

[ladypheesh]

hotimportknight - I called Foster & Smith when we were looking in to these lights. The sale is going on until August.

[hotimportknight]

Ah sweet! Thanks! I'll have made my decision on a new tank right before then I hope.

[jb61264]

I'll be interested to hear more about this...I bought the 36" Nova Extreme Pro...love this light, it runs SO cool and SO quiet!...I think the only "bitch" that I have about it is that you can't be too flexible with the timing of the bulbs...only two AC plugs, one controls 4 tubes the other controls 2...I'm currently just manually turning them on when I get home since I'm just cycling my tank now

What lighting cycle do you run with yours?

[fishbait]

actinics come on at 12:00 pm (only the first two bulbs) daylights come on at 2:00 pm. daylights off at 9:00 pm and actinics off at 10:00 pm. 10 hours total

[hotimportknight]

I'm using the regular nova extreme fixture, 2 cords, 4 bulbs. actinics come on for me at 12:00 noon and go off at midnight, day lights come on at 1:30 and go off at 10:30. I ran them a lot less when i first started my tank and had horrible algae problems, but upped it when it cleared up.

[jb61264]

Originally Posted by hotimportknight

I'm using the regular nova extreme fixture, 2 cords, 4 bulbs. actinics come on for me at 12:00 noon and go off at midnight, day lights come on at 1:30 and go off at 10:30. I ran them a lot less when i first started my tank and had horrible algae problems, but upped it when it cleared up.

So you had a bad algae problem...what did you do that cleared it up?

[hotimportknight]

I cut the lights back quite a bit, that didnt help reverse the problem on its own. I got a small algae blenny and he cleared the tank up in less than a week. He doesnt do glass so much, but all the rocks were covered in hair algae and he dominated those!