Hey guys, I got a few corals in right now, with just a frag rack for now. I got the ATI Powermodule LED on it. its a fantastic light. I'll post pics soon, just having some hair algae issues
Hey guys, I got a few corals in right now, with just a frag rack for now. I got the ATI Powermodule LED on it. its a fantastic light. I'll post pics soon, just having some hair algae issues
Hey Nik, what % are you running the leds? Asking because as much as I loved my ATI light, i noticed that unless i ramped up the leds more than 50%, the t5's really outshined the leds and i got no shimmer in my tank which for me is a must have in a sw tank.
After not liking any of my aquascape ideas I decided I would put a frag rack in until I came up with something, thanks Tony for making me that. Now I've got an idea but I'll wait till my corals grow some more. I was fighting some diatoms and drop in salinity from using an uncalibrated refractometer but now things have been pretty stable for past month or so. I added a few more fish with some more coming. I still have some burnt tips from correcting the salinity too fast but its getting better. Most of my coral came from steve garret. His sps are strong, I'm surprised I haven't killed anything yet.
I'm glad I went with the ati t5 hybrid. Its a fantastic light and the colors I'm getting are great. I highly recommend the geissman lagoon blue bulb, nice crisp white light with a hint of blue. I also added two buildmyled actinic LED strips, awesome lights adds more pop but I only run them at night after the ati turns off.
Really cool light hanger great seeing out of the box thinking on builds I have owned several of Jeff's skimmers and have a like new XRC 250 w/1262 now to use when my two 4" x 36" air stone skimmers can't keep up with my future bio load all of them have been quality kick butt skimmers with great customer service.
Your build is coming along nicely!
thank you! Yeah Jeff has been really great to deal with. I like the fact that this can be run in or out sump and that water level wont affect its performance. I ordered the XRC 1000.4, with the option of adding the 5th 1262.
thank you! Yeah Jeff has been really great to deal with. I like the fact that this can be run in or out sump and that water level wont affect its performance. I ordered the XRC 1000.4, with the option of adding the 5th 1262.
Jesus that's a huge skimmer. Isn't your tank only 250g? That skimmer says it's rated for a 800+ gallon SPS tank.
Any reason why u went with that versus a bubble king? Having 4 separate pumps seems like it could be a maintenance head ache.
I've got 600-650 gallons of water with the sumps. I wanted room to expand. I like the recirculating design and RD is local so if there are any problems I wont have to ship. The pumps come off easily and I don't have to run them all at the same time. I plan on keeping two off during the day. Apparently turning off a few pumps during the day produces more skimmate overall. I'm not sure why but I have seen the results.