The sunny reef on the hill
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bayview
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Just swamped took out the halide and added a 50/50 48 led bar 450/12k ... to cut down on the power bill ... I think It could still probably use one more bar or t5 back / top of the tank is not lit well ... 140 total watts over the 120 gallon ...
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bayview
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200 watts led and a 4bulb t5 ho now ... starting to add some sps ... I need to get my water tested ... this blind dosing / few water changes is scarey even though I am conservative, I know parameters can get off quick ...
On another note the coral love it and my chato / algae turf scrubber grows minimal and xenia is starting to stop growing ... My skimmer gets nasty quick ... lots of biologicals
On another note the coral love it and my chato / algae turf scrubber grows minimal and xenia is starting to stop growing ... My skimmer gets nasty quick ... lots of biologicals
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sfsuphysics
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Not too shabby!
For the life of me I could never get coraline to grow well on rocks, always grew on plastic surfaces like the acrylic or on pumps, but not so much on rocks.
For the life of me I could never get coraline to grow well on rocks, always grew on plastic surfaces like the acrylic or on pumps, but not so much on rocks.
bayview
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The sand bed of he 120 was looking nasty nasty ... and xenia was starting to grow again ...
So I decided to take charge after ignoring for 6 months ...
I also wanted to change out the system to a newer ones with some of the previous faults fixed with the current tank removed ...
I was looking for a 5x2x2 but ended up with a 190 76x24x24 ... I had my father make a steel stand as the ones at the lfs looked iffy ... I also added to 25,000 pound floor jacks to the steal beam under the tank ...
Lost some of my oldest fish in the the transfer ... a 70+ head Duncan colony meleted in my holding tank taking out my powder brown, Salfin, and large purple dotty ... and damaging a few other corals ... so far everything likes the new tank ... also having my build my led serviced as I noticed some days it was dimmer than other ... I suspect a driver issue as I noticed the power supply was getting hot where I had it
I also ordered a 12k custom super par 72" light I plan on using for the primary lighting ...
So I decided to take charge after ignoring for 6 months ...
I also wanted to change out the system to a newer ones with some of the previous faults fixed with the current tank removed ...
I was looking for a 5x2x2 but ended up with a 190 76x24x24 ... I had my father make a steel stand as the ones at the lfs looked iffy ... I also added to 25,000 pound floor jacks to the steal beam under the tank ...
Lost some of my oldest fish in the the transfer ... a 70+ head Duncan colony meleted in my holding tank taking out my powder brown, Salfin, and large purple dotty ... and damaging a few other corals ... so far everything likes the new tank ... also having my build my led serviced as I noticed some days it was dimmer than other ... I suspect a driver issue as I noticed the power supply was getting hot where I had it
I also ordered a 12k custom super par 72" light I plan on using for the primary lighting ...Attachments
bayview
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The sand bed of he 120 was looking nasty nasty ... and xenia was starting to grow again ...
So I decided to take charge after ignoring for 6 months ...
I also wanted to change out the system to a newer ones with some of the previous faults fixed with the current tank removed ...
I was looking for a 5x2x2 but ended up with a 190 76x24x24 ... I had my father make a steel stand as the ones at the lfs looked iffy ... I also added to 25,000 pound floor jacks to the steal beam under the tank ...
Lost some of my oldest fish in the the transfer ... a 70+ head Duncan colony meleted in my holding tank taking out my powder brown, Salfin, and large purple dotty ... and damaging a few other corals ... so far everything likes the new tank ... also having my build my led serviced as I noticed some days it was dimmer than other ... I suspect a driver issue as I noticed the power supply was getting hot where I had it
So far I have added a rs300 sump with a reef Octopus 180 Skimmer, phosban 550 reactor with sea chem carbon and phosban. For returns I have a 3/4 sea swirl with a jeabo return set to 1000 gph ... and a 1/2 sea swirl on a 550gpg return pump ... returns are two 1" durso's that I somehow got to be silent with ease, after the initial gurgling.
The sand bed is now large grain crushed coral and currently just have two 500 gph power heads that I plan on swapping out to two wp 25's