Sumpin'fishy: Yes, to have a light turn on in the room first, then the strip light comes on is the IDEAL situation. However, since I wake up at 5:30 am and my fish wake up at 5:27am, there is no way Im going to wake up earlier by another light turning on in my bedroom. But that would be the best situation.
80GJoe: you have 5 LEDS? what colors are they? I have them shinning through the tank glass top to the bottom of the tank. I have 2 blue ones in the 60 gallon tank as of now.
Experiment those far:
60 gallon: This morning (with 2 blue LEDS) the strip light turned on and the tinfoils did pace fast from one side of the tank to the otherside MANY TIMES (Not hitting anything though). The first experiment went well with the green led, but what I am going to try is to add another BLUE LED to my 60 gallon to total 3 blue LEDs. I would love to add the green led (because that setup proved successful), but my elephant nose doesnt like that, so off to buy another BLUE LED. Walmart sold out of that color, so Im going to have to find another place that sells them or order them off of bigals online. So the next update may take a week.
20 gallon:
Another night using the Red led. Another FAILURE. They did not come out 1 hour after turning off the lights and when I woke up at 5:30 am, they were still not out. so Red and blue leds both do not work. And i could assume the other colors would not work as well (orange, yellow, purple and green).
The 3 petricolas in 60 gallon DOES come out when the blue LED is on. Why the 10 1-2inch petricolas does not come out? who knows? Perhaps Half the tank has pipes and Rocks filled half way
up the tank and they LOVE their maze's and rock homes. But, as of now...the cause of them hiding all the time? Dont know. No aggressive fish and the water quality is good. Even if the tank is small, they should still swim to the open areas and all over the inside of the tank.
