And the project begins! T5HO Build.

[e_murray]

The nice UPS man brought my surprise today while I was shopping for Dinner!

ATI bulbs, Tek Reflectors, Endcaps, Ballasts. etc.

Thanks to AquaCave for a great deal!

I will be starting to put this all together tomorrow!

 

[e_murray]

Forgot to attach the pic of the goodies!

 

[zparticle]

I'm a newbie so ... what is a T5HO?

 

[carey]

Looks great! Can't wait to see it all in action! Aquacave has the best stuff, I swear. LOL I could shop there for weeks!

 

[e_murray]

He he me too! If I was only rich!

 

[e_murray]

Welcome newbie, T5 is the size of bulb and HO means high output.

 

[e_murray]

Old Bulbs out canopy cleaned up...

Makin some progress...

If my helpers would leave me alone.. LOL

 

[dollabill420]

Kitties love helping lol just not what your trying to accomplish

 

[e_murray]

Ok, got it together...

 

[carey]

Wow, impressive. Looks great so far. Nice work.

 

[hackteck]

nice work you did there so far

 

[e_murray]

Thanks guys I Love the color!

 

[e_murray]

Before - old lights

 

[e_murray]

After - new lights

 

[hackteck]

looks great just curious what type of lighting were you using in the old picture

 

[e_murray]

T12 VHO's

Think I'm gonna use them on my fresh water tank. It currently has 2 18'' crap lights.

 

[e_murray]

I set up 2 blue+ on their own power cord, can I run those in early morn and late afternoon/night for like dawn and dusk effect?

or do they need to be off with the other lights?

They look really nice when they are on by themselves would be nice evening effect for the living room!

 

[carey]

OMG, like a whole new tank! Beautiful

 

[Grizz]

Very nice when can you do mine? kidding. You can run the blue the way your thinking i run mine for 12 hrs and the whites for 10 The blue come on at 6 am(12hrs) the white at 7am(10hrs) Then the moon light come on at 9pm and shut off at 12am

 

[e_murray]

Well, My Xenia dont like the new lights... Its all shriveled up!