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03/18/2017, 07:49 AM | #651 |
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The tank progression shots are incredible! The fish shots look like you need to go work for a magazine! The coral shots just look like you need to start selling!
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03/20/2017, 11:12 AM | #654 |
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I used to have Aquascience special 15000K but I have been using the ATI Blue Plus for over a year now and like it well enough to keep using them. The T5's are mostly there for increased PAR and to smooth out the lighting. LED's tend to have harsh shadows that the corals seem to really notice. At least my GHL Mitras do that.
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04/10/2017, 10:46 AM | #655 |
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My nitrate and phosphate dosing is now working well. I have registrable amounts of both in the tank now. Got a little overzealous with the nitrates (10-12 ppm) so I dialed that back to get it more into the 5 ppm range. Phosphates are sitting nicely at .04 ppm. I have a little green algae growing in the sand as a response to the increased nutrients but I am not losing any sleep about it until everything is balanced. The RR Walt Disney is starting to get some nice pink edges to the corallites! Will take some pictures in a bit
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04/29/2017, 06:02 PM | #656 |
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Wow, just catching up and still recovering from the March photos. More would be fantastic!
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11/29/2017, 07:14 PM | #657 |
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Couple bad shots of the frag tank:
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12/01/2017, 11:32 AM | #658 |
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Amazing tank !
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01/01/2018, 10:27 PM | #661 |
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Hey Scott, love your build. I noticed you work away from home.
Im planning a new tank build, 225 gallons, but just took a job up in ft mac. working 14/7. Is there any advice you could give for people like us, who are away from home alot? This is the 1 hobby that relaxes me, and the wife is ok with. So any input would be awesome. Sent from my LG-H831 using Tapatalk |
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Hey AR! Biggest thing I'd say is automation with simple failsafes. Something as simple as my automatic top up (tunze) which runs from a 5g pail. The pail will only fill twice a day. That way if the ATO fails and stays on, worst case scenario it dumps one or two 5g pails into the system before my wife notices something funny like the red light blinking on the tunze controller or the sound of the pump just whirring away in an empty pail. If I had it tied into a large RO reservoir it could be catastrophic. My dosing being run through the GHL Dosers is very slick as well. I just make sure my 5L reservoirs are full before heading out and they will last for two weeks.
I like to be able to look at my parameters on my phone at work through the GHL Profilux. Plus it gives me alarms for if there is water on the floor below the tank and sumps, also if there seems to be a flow issue, raising the water level in the sumps. And in the end I have an emergency drain that means if the system over fills for some reason it goes down a drain, not on my floor. It really comes down to buying high end equipment, keeping your equipment in decent working order, and trusting those you leave in charge. My wife doesn't test unless she notices something is weird and then I direct her on which test to do. She simple feeds the fish every evening and that's it. Have a friend your tank sitter can call if SHTF, and be calm with her if something is going wrong You know your system better than anyone, it can be tough to explain things in the heat of the moment if you're panicking and they are as well. I'm sure there are plenty of other things I do but I can't really think of them all off the top of my head right now. Ring ideas off me and I will let you know what I do
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01/03/2018, 11:22 AM | #663 |
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Awesome. Thanks for the reply. I trust my wife with the tank, for the most part haha. Ill definitely be looking into an apex or something simular.
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Happy New Year!
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Thanks Kmoo! How's the solid LED working on your system? I could have added another GHL but went with a hybrid setup and T5's.
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Great looking tank man!
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01/12/2018, 10:07 PM | #668 |
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Those corals filled in nicely!
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That was the hope with the open rockwork. I now need to start trimming the corals to allow for new ones to take hole and plump up the tank a little.
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So I am pretty sure i am going to pull the trigger on a GHL KH Director. Just add a little more stability to my system. I'm going to run it only as a monitor for the first bit so I can make sure it doesn't have any large shifts that could over/under dose my system. I am assuming GHL has built in some sort of hysteresis so that I can have it ignore one bad test and wait until the next one to react. While I am at it I may put a Doser Maxi on as well to do my water changes and refill the SW that is used up during KH testing. Ideas, concerns, etc?
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Bought a little frag setup for going to shows and such! The bucket systems are pretty cool and the egg crate inserts transfer directly into the frag tank. The tank is 18" x 24" x 6" and holds around 11g. I bought a reefbrite XHO 24" for above it. Haven't figured out quite how I am going to mount that yet though. So 3 pails, the tank & lights and I'm good to go!
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Some great shots in here! Great progress...
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