5.56 225 gallon nanoreef
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It's a Griezmann fixture with radium lamps 250 watt but the fixture and ballasts will also do a 400 Watt. I absolutely love to halide but you cannot get the same pop out of the overpriced tenius corals like homewrecker and Walt Disney. You only get those colors with LED. But as far as natural look and overall Aesthetics oh, I don't think anything comes close to it metal halide T5 yet.
The heat is fairly easy manageable with fans and using efficient pumps. A lot of heat comes from pumps also. And every now and again I have how lights off during the day if it gets real hot during summer they will shut off if it tank water hits 81 degrees
The heat is fairly easy manageable with fans and using efficient pumps. A lot of heat comes from pumps also. And every now and again I have how lights off during the day if it gets real hot during summer they will shut off if it tank water hits 81 degrees
Nice. I found a 72" spectra that I was thinking about grabbing. Such a sleek fixture.
I've had issues getting all my radions to calibrate to eachother properly and dont want to drop near 3k for g4 pros. That has me leaning towards mh/t5 with led supplement or t5 w/LED supp. My biggest concern was heat/creating a sauna in my living room but its good to know it's not all that bad even in socal.
I've had issues getting all my radions to calibrate to eachother properly and dont want to drop near 3k for g4 pros. That has me leaning towards mh/t5 with led supplement or t5 w/LED supp. My biggest concern was heat/creating a sauna in my living room but its good to know it's not all that bad even in socal.
This is new to me. I have had tanks smell in the past due to very poor husbandry but this new setup smells almost all the time. I’m running ozone 24X7 as opposed to 3hrs a night now, fresh carbon every week and cleaning the skimmer cup every other day and changing socks every 2-3 days and still it stinks much of the time.
Not real thrilled with running that much carbon or that much O3 but I have to get rid of the smell. It’s not strong or pungent but it is there.
I’m thinking of ordering one of these
https://www.dyson.com/purifiers/dyson-pure-cool-link-tower-white-silver.html
Not real thrilled with running that much carbon or that much O3 but I have to get rid of the smell. It’s not strong or pungent but it is there.
I’m thinking of ordering one of these
https://www.dyson.com/purifiers/dyson-pure-cool-link-tower-white-silver.html
Good/bad news today.... same thing really, it's that I'm starting to get purple corraline algae on the rocks and glass.... at least I don't have to scrape it off the rocks LOL
I'm going to have to start the cacl2 reactor up sooner rather than later, corals are growing and encrusting and I'm consuming alk and calcium faster than I can replenish with saturated limewater.
Quality problems, the corals which survived the last tank are coloring up amazingly!
I'm going to have to start the cacl2 reactor up sooner rather than later, corals are growing and encrusting and I'm consuming alk and calcium faster than I can replenish with saturated limewater.
Quality problems, the corals which survived the last tank are coloring up amazingly!
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Others have said that it’s just the tank setteling down, it’s common and the smell will go away on it’s own. I think it’s due to my massive alage scrubber.
My dad’s 80th bday party was saturday and I get home late in the evening to find that apperantly a snail has decided to take a tour of my plumbing system. No problem I think, that’s what the emergency overflow is for and it’s workign fin for now. Then about 4:00AM a tremendous thought occurred to me: “what if another snail decides to tour the emergency overflow? By 6:00 AM I had him out. He had gotten stuck at the bulkhead.
I took enough water out that I decided to just falllow up with a 30 gal WC. Tank is looking great and I have started playing with FRP and magnets and building a skin for the stand.
My dad’s 80th bday party was saturday and I get home late in the evening to find that apperantly a snail has decided to take a tour of my plumbing system. No problem I think, that’s what the emergency overflow is for and it’s workign fin for now. Then about 4:00AM a tremendous thought occurred to me: “what if another snail decides to tour the emergency overflow? By 6:00 AM I had him out. He had gotten stuck at the bulkhead.
I took enough water out that I decided to just falllow up with a 30 gal WC. Tank is looking great and I have started playing with FRP and magnets and building a skin for the stand.
My new custom 3D printed probe holder from 123eustratios on eBay. makes all sorts of reefing goodies and is really a top notch dude. He original shipped me 2 pieces in black, mostly due to my poor communications skills and ended up making and shipping this one to my specs and wouldn't even let me pay for any of it. We agreed that I would donate the black holders to the raffle at the next SCMAS meeting. Mine holds apex temp, pH, space for ORP if I get it, and float switch spaced away from the magnets.
Here's some photos with my walkaround lens @2K iso
The FRP skin is still a work in progress. i'm waiting for more magnets so I can cinch it up closer. It was a bit of a rush job because we are dog-sitting or the in-laws starting tomorrow and I didn't want their little bundle of hair and slobber getting into my sump LOL
You can see the refugium light through the FRP at night but I really don't care.
Here's some photos with my walkaround lens @2K iso
The FRP skin is still a work in progress. i'm waiting for more magnets so I can cinch it up closer. It was a bit of a rush job because we are dog-sitting or the in-laws starting tomorrow and I didn't want their little bundle of hair and slobber getting into my sump LOL
You can see the refugium light through the FRP at night but I really don't care.
First off, THANK YOU for the help! It was a daunting task and you made it easy.
Yes, same tank. I went to town on it with a stainless steel welding brush and an angle grinder with diamond cutting wheel. I lost some encrusted coral but I took no prisioners. I’m very happy with the results. Now I have a giant refugium with a LED fixture for growing pot plants and a gynormous alage scrubber. Never want to deal with that again
Yes, same tank. I went to town on it with a stainless steel welding brush and an angle grinder with diamond cutting wheel. I lost some encrusted coral but I took no prisioners. I’m very happy with the results. Now I have a giant refugium with a LED fixture for growing pot plants and a gynormous alage scrubber. Never want to deal with that again
It’s funny, I have been in the hobby (salt and fresh) for 40 years and never gave scopes a 2nd look. I always thought: “why would anyone want a brown fish?” Well, this one was given to me about 2 years ago and I absolutly love him! Besides the subtle colors and textures, he has a great personality though this one is a bit of a bad-ars and wa picking at the 12” vlamingi for weeks. Now they are best buds but he was plunking a fish 4X his size for a while there.
Fish photography is about 97% luck. You just have to be there with the right equiptment and the right settings when they decide to sit still for a moment.
Fish photography is about 97% luck. You just have to be there with the right equiptment and the right settings when they decide to sit still for a moment.
