Arcadia Luminaire

[xxBarneyxx]

Well this weekend I will be taking down my planted tank and moving it to my new place to set up as a marine tank. It has a 4 tube arcadia luminaire which can run 4 54w T5 tubes.

Just wondering what the best mix of tubes would be for this. Mainly all soft corals that are going in.

On a side note I'm really not looking forward to moving everything over so any good tips on the best way to do it would be great (thankfully I dont have to far to travel between my old place and the new one).

My plan is:

Empty the planted tank, take fish to shop, move tank to new flat.
Clean the tank out with RO water (repeat 4 or 5 times) then leave it to soak in RO water for a few days.
Set it up and get the salt in and leave for a day to settle.
Put everything in my nano into clean buckets with water from the nano.
Drip acclimitise everything in the buckets before putting it into the new tank.

Anyone see any major flaws in this plan?

 

[Crazy fishes]

You can't go wrong with 50:50 mix actinic:marine daylight. Plan sounds good. You are not drip acclimatizing live rock are you?? You don't need to once your salinity is where you want it? (I'm sorry if I have misread that but everything sounds like rock as well). I never drip acclimatise anything I see it as superfluous but if that is your system and it works stick with it.

Best of luck

Regards

 

[SkiFletch]

Anyone see any major flaws in this plan?

Dont forget all the Towels you'll need

 

[xxBarneyxx]

Anyone see any major flaws in this plan?

Dont forget all the Towels you'll need

Yeah towels and plastic sheets are a must have as I have just put new carpet in as well.

With regards to the rocks some of them are going to have to be acclimitized because they are covered either in xenia or GSP (god these two corals spread quickly ). Everything that doesnt have something growing on it will just be put in once the SG is the same.

Will go with the 50/50 mix then

 

[fiskkeeperpro]

im about to change my tubes to the ati tubes. I also have a 4xt5 luminaire on my tank and this is the mix im going for:

2x ati aquablue special- 12k light
1x ati blue plus- bring out the colours more from lps and sps corals
1x ati actinic- brings out the colours more in soft corals

i think this will be a good mix as you have 2 different actinics so you wont jsut get a purple or a blue light you will get an inbetween coloured (ati actinic is purple and ati blue plus is about 22k) and they both do different jobs. As in your orca you had lps and soft corals this may prove to be a good mix for you.
The best place that ive found ati tubes is here and i went onto an american reef forum and asked about ati tubes and all i gt were very good comments.

Hope that helps

Will

 

[xxBarneyxx]

Excellent thanks. Sounds like a good plan and these tubes are cheaper then the ones I was looking at, ordering them now

 

[fiskkeeperpro]

great!
id love to see some pics of them when you start the tank
i cant wait to get mine as they seem so much better than the arcadias that i have already, its just i need funds

Will

 

[xxBarneyxx]

Yeah I'm going to start a new journal thread when I get going

Just need to bring myself to pull my planted tank apart now

 

[fiskkeeperpro]

Yeah I'm going to start a new journal thread when I get going

Just need to bring myself to pull my planted tank apart now

That must be hard , that tank is amazing!

 

[xxBarneyxx]

Yeah I'm going to start a new journal thread when I get going

Just need to bring myself to pull my planted tank apart now

That must be hard , that tank is amazing!

Yeah it really sucks to pull it down after all the work that went into it but I only really have the time, space and money for one tank now so would prefer it to be a salty one