Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 11:50 pm Re: Toku's 150 gal build
Thank you so much! Yeah, I'm scheming on a multi light system. I have the 48" 4 bulb T5 lighting system sitting in my living room and I was talking to some of my herp gals and pals. Apparently there is new T5 UVB bulbs on the market, made by Arcadia. Arcadia is a European company that makes very good bulbs. I believe one online site is a North American distributor of the bulbs. So I'm thinking of running 2 UVB T5 bulbs and 2 full spectrum High LUX output T5 bulbs. Then I will maybe run a Metal-Halide UVB bulb for More bright white light and heat with UVB. Then a halogen bulb. Basically it will work like this..... The halogen will come on at sunrise giving that light hue of light, at 8:00am the MH bulb will come on, at 11:00am the T5 bulbs would comeon to mimic mid daylight. Then in reverse order the T5 bulbs go off at 3:00pm, then the MH at 5:00pm and finally the halogen at sunset. Now this will change with the seasons to best mimic the sun that he would experience in the Rio Grande basin. This would be my ideal lighting scheme but unfortunately this will be very expensive so I may not get to do it for some years to come. I'm trying something new, Toku is always in the tank when I introduce stuff so naturally he goes after it, i.e. fish, plants, food, so on. So I took the advantage of putting everything from the fish to the moss ball in the tank before he every touch a wedded foot in it, lol. Seems to be working so far, I will keep you all posted.