I was thinking since every ocean has frequent storms especially around coasts and reefs, i thought that in some way be benificial to the reef, plus be reaaalllly shnazzy to have a "storm " in the tank every now and then.
i am setting up a 10 to transfer away from my eclipse, and before i transfer i have been doing it right , built a NICE canopy and got a proper stand, created a great light setup for what i am keeping, 2 15 watt tubes, 1 actenic420 the other 10,000k, i may switch that to a 50/50 tho, or 18000k. any sugestions on light combos K wise like 420 and a 50 50 or whatever would be nice. anywho i thought since i have a heavy duty weekly timer, and a 12 volt converter, and a few power heads that i can hide, and a spray bar, and tubing with holders......you see what im getting at im sure, i wanted to go to the auto part store and get those 10 dollar wigg wagg strobes that are waterproof mind you, and staple that thing in to the canopy and run the wires to the Control box i am buildin in the cabinet of my stand and put it on a timer so that say 6 pm saturday 1 time a week the timer turns on the pwerstrip that will....
1)turn on strobe light that is wired to "sound pulse" boxes and set strobe to low.*this will requiere adjustments. so when my "sharper image" thunder sound machine is set for say...30 minutes to come one and occasionally with the sinc of the sound flash intermitant lightning strikes.
2) Turn on a hidden pwerhead that will pump up through hid pipe to a spraybar right at the front surface inside the lip of the tank spray right into the face of the reef creating a oxygenating and turbulent water flow for 1 hr.
also at this time a can also plug i light into a timer set to turn OFF at the time of the storm, pluged into the timer they are usually on so when the storm comes..1 light goes out 1hr before...30minutes into storm the "rain" starts...30minutes more, lightning strikes and tunder intermittent for 30 min then the thunder and lightning goes off, rain for another 30 or less then no rain.... then eventually last light goes off and its night time, regular sunny calm seas for 1 more week... things i have thought is using a lunar link instead of strobes to cut down the brightness of the :lightning:
anyway tell me what yall think, i personally thing that i could be benificial in recreating a natural habitat in the tank as closely as possible. now if i can get a hold of some good software development tools i could turn this into a nasty little system by controlling "weather" linked to the jepsen international weather , the weather channel that pilots use basicly and make the weather follow the specific area of which your reef is from, that is only if you keep the tank area specific though. therwise it dosent matter anymore
i am setting up a 10 to transfer away from my eclipse, and before i transfer i have been doing it right , built a NICE canopy and got a proper stand, created a great light setup for what i am keeping, 2 15 watt tubes, 1 actenic420 the other 10,000k, i may switch that to a 50/50 tho, or 18000k. any sugestions on light combos K wise like 420 and a 50 50 or whatever would be nice. anywho i thought since i have a heavy duty weekly timer, and a 12 volt converter, and a few power heads that i can hide, and a spray bar, and tubing with holders......you see what im getting at im sure, i wanted to go to the auto part store and get those 10 dollar wigg wagg strobes that are waterproof mind you, and staple that thing in to the canopy and run the wires to the Control box i am buildin in the cabinet of my stand and put it on a timer so that say 6 pm saturday 1 time a week the timer turns on the pwerstrip that will....
1)turn on strobe light that is wired to "sound pulse" boxes and set strobe to low.*this will requiere adjustments. so when my "sharper image" thunder sound machine is set for say...30 minutes to come one and occasionally with the sinc of the sound flash intermitant lightning strikes.
2) Turn on a hidden pwerhead that will pump up through hid pipe to a spraybar right at the front surface inside the lip of the tank spray right into the face of the reef creating a oxygenating and turbulent water flow for 1 hr.
also at this time a can also plug i light into a timer set to turn OFF at the time of the storm, pluged into the timer they are usually on so when the storm comes..1 light goes out 1hr before...30minutes into storm the "rain" starts...30minutes more, lightning strikes and tunder intermittent for 30 min then the thunder and lightning goes off, rain for another 30 or less then no rain.... then eventually last light goes off and its night time, regular sunny calm seas for 1 more week... things i have thought is using a lunar link instead of strobes to cut down the brightness of the :lightning:
anyway tell me what yall think, i personally thing that i could be benificial in recreating a natural habitat in the tank as closely as possible. now if i can get a hold of some good software development tools i could turn this into a nasty little system by controlling "weather" linked to the jepsen international weather , the weather channel that pilots use basicly and make the weather follow the specific area of which your reef is from, that is only if you keep the tank area specific though. therwise it dosent matter anymore
