- What's up curl people. My name is Remy,
and today we're going to go through the basic setup
on the most popular,
affordable,
controllable and compact lights
that you'll use over your macroalgae display tank,
the Aquaillumination prime freshwater.
We're going to do an unboxing.
We're going to set it up on your tank.
We're also going to pair it with your phone
and I'll set you up with a macro friendly lighting schedule.
The Aqua illumination prime freshwater
has not only been a popular option
for our freshwater counterparts,
but it's also becoming widely accepted
in the refund community
to light your macroalgae display tank.
Let's go ahead and get this out of the box.
Inside the box,
you're going to find the AI prime fresh water,
you're also going to find the power supply,
a little tool that we'll get to here in a second
and also the quick start guide.
When you get your AI prime freshwater
or any of the prime or hydro line,
you will also have to decide how you're going to Mount it.
And there are several different ways you can do that.
AI has a hanging kit and I think out of all the ways
that you can Mount this slide,
that's probably going to be the most versatile,
a gooseneck option,
which we will be utilizing in this build
and there's also an aluminum mounting kit as well.
I chose the gooseneck option for this build
and it's currently sitting about 10 inches off the water.
To install, It's pretty easy.
You just got to set the bracket up on the rim of the tank,
you go ahead and tighten that screw.
For the gooseneck option, they also provide these clips
that you can clip on the cord too.
So you can go ahead and use those if you want
or you can just kind of wind the cord around the gooseneck.
However you prefer.
Then just set the post into the bracket,
adjust the height and you're all set.
It's a really easy installation.
Even easier is pairing this light with your phone.
All AI devices include smart control standard.
Make sure to download the,
my AI app for your iOS or Android device
and we can easily set it up from there.
If you've got Bluetooth on, it makes it a breeze.
It's super easy to find.
Once you've paired your device,
you can immediately see how intuitive
the app is to use in controlling your light.
Let's run through some of the options here.
Now that we're in the app,
we can go to live demo and we can start just messing around
with some color spectrums here.
So let's start with the cool white,
go ahead and turn that on.
Maybe a little bit of warm white.
The reds are going to be nice
as we try and highlight some of these red macroalgaes.
We'll up that green a little bit and the blue as well,
remember,
we're trying to get that fresh water spectrum
that this light does so well.
What I like about this app,
is that especially in the background,
you can kind of see that spectrum wave form
happening in the background of it.
We'll get to the schedule in a second,
but you can also,
if you just want to turn the lights on for maybe one minute
or 10 minutes or 30 minutes or an hour,
you can also do that.
And what's really nice about the my AI app,
is that it's going to encapsulate everything
from pumps to lights right here on one screen
so I can control everything that's on one tank right here.
Unlike most freshwater lights on the market today,
the AI prime freshwater offers
an abundance of controllability.
Most of the freshwater lights on the market, just turn on
and turn off.
Maybe some have a timer,
maybe some have a plugin an extra plugin that you can buy
to ramp up and ramp down.
But you get all of that in this AI prime freshwater.
Having control is a great asset
given the wide spectrum of Macroalgaes is in this hobby.
Macroalgae are classified into three major groups.
There's the brown,
there's green
and there's also red.
These are the three major ones.
Red, green and brown macroalgae all have different needs.
That's why these fresh water full spectrum lights
cover all the bases.
I found it interesting that red macro algae
is found at the deepest of all of the three.
The light absorbing ability of red macro algae is so good
that some of this can be found at depths of 800 plus feet.
Your brown algae species,
are the ones that you're going to find
the least of in the hobby
are found in between the red and the green.
And of course, green macroalgae
usually found in the shallow waters of the ocean.
Now remember, a full spectrum lighting
is the entire visible spectrum of light.
So it's going to try and mimic daylight as much as possible.
It should have a color temperature between
5,000 and 6,500 Kelvin.
Natural daylight around noon is like 5,600 to 6,500 Kelvin
and of course, that can vary based on geographic location,
time of year, et cetera.
Most macroalgae is highly adaptive to different spectrums,
which is nice because you're probably going to want to keep
reds, greens and Browns all in the same tank.
Based on some of the characteristics of macroalgae,
let's go ahead and set up our lighting schedule.
When it comes to schedule, where do you even start?
Well, it's super easy in the app.
You just click down here on lighting
and then you go to easy setup.
I think this is a good place to start,
especially if you're brand new to this.
You're going to choose your sunrise.
And for me,
my sunrise, isn't going to be until like 2:00 p ...
We'll go 1:00 PM on this one.
And then my sun set is probably going to be more
in the area of nine o'clock at night
because I work mornings
and I usually don't get to enjoy my tanks
until the afternoon, so that's where we're going to start.
We're going to make the ramp time just an hour.
Again, you can control that as you wish
and then we'll choose the spectrum.
Right now this has everything set at 60%,
which is a place you could start.
I'm just going to back off the cool whites a little bit
down to 30.
And as you can see here,
it's going to give us a little preview
of what that's going to look like.
I'm going to keep the warm whites at 50.
The moonlight is one led,
So we'll just leave that at 60 for now.
Deep reds I'm going to move up to 70%,
same with those greens,
so we get there
and as we approach the blue, I think I'll probably
knock that down just a bit, maybe to 50% right there.
I think that's a good place to start for now.
What's cool is you can go in here
and select the preview button
and it will take you through the entire day
so you can see what this looks like.
This is a pretty basic program,
once it ramps up,
it's there and then it will ramp back down again.
But as we approach that 1:00 PM, mark,
it'll start that ramp up
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and then it will ramp back down towards the end of the day.
If at any point of the day
you wanted to alter any of this,
you just drag it to that point that you would want
go ahead and hit this plus button
and now you can go ahead and manipulate
where you want that light to end up during that point
and then once you've selected that,
you can see where we've made that edit.
You can do that as many times
throughout the day as you want.
If you want to simulate clouds or anything like that,
there are those features as well,
but that I think is a good starting point.
Another important and often overlooked feature
of these new AI prime lights,
is the way that you can take off the mesh screen
to clean it.
If you've got an older generation AI light,
you know how difficult those mesh screens are to clean.
Well, AI makes it super easy with this tool.
Remember that tool I showed you from the beginning,
don't throw this out
because it's going to make getting that
screen off of the top of your AI prime freshwater
Really, really easy.
Just go ahead and push down,
lift up a little bit and there you go.
Now you can get your mesh screen out and get all that dust
and crud out of there.
So your AI prime freshwater can be working
at maximum potential.
And just like that,
you've got your AI prime freshwater all set up
and ready to go.
Pick one of these up from the link right here
and I'll catch you in the next one.
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