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01/06/2015, 06:21 PM | #26 | |
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Thanks everyone! I hope that something that I post can help another reef keeper out!
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I was not surprised at the numbers being high in the center and top, but I was surprised at how high and how constant the PAR was throughout the tank. When you have 8 bulbs throwing light from all different angles there is very little drop off of PAR between the top of the rock work and the sand, which gives me a lot of flexibility for positioning. The local fish store is an all-radion lit store, and we looked at numbers on his display tank for reference. The drop-off for intensity was very fast as we went from the top to the bottom, at the sand directly below the Radion Pros he was around 100. It is an unexpected benefit of T5s that I didn't know about On my attached naughty tank I have a 70watt DE metal halide(Ushio 20K) and I found the same thing. At the top of the rocks, center of the tank, par is around 360. on the bottom, 6 inches below that the par is only 150. I highly recommend getting your hands on a meter, ask around - someone local to you may have one for rent.
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01/08/2015, 05:14 AM | #27 |
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A very nice system with lovely SPS colours. Thanks for sharing with us.
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01/08/2015, 06:28 AM | #28 |
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Tank is looking great! Nice Job.
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Very cool!!!... Above pictures remind me when I lived in California.... We reefers just made the whole house about reef... Hahaha
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01/08/2015, 10:43 AM | #30 | |
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01/08/2015, 10:44 AM | #31 |
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Thanks Very much! I'll be carefully following your rebuild, keep up the good work!
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01/08/2015, 10:46 AM | #32 | |
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"Ok baby, there is going to be some drilling...please don't worry about it"
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01/08/2015, 12:41 PM | #33 |
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Before my wife and I had kids, we lived in an old small rowhouse. I put a 220 in the living room and took over an entire room in the basement below the tank for filtration. I drilled 3 holes through the hardwood floors for drainage and return. And the basement sump room was like a mad scientist lab with pipes and wires and tanks all over the place. Was awesome!!
The tank was part of the house..
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01/08/2015, 12:57 PM | #35 |
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Some coral shots:
Blue Tenuis coloring up nicely, this had almost no blue in it when i got it: And a new acro, maybe a horrida. Its light blue with electric green polyps and its a pain to get a good photo of it:
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01/08/2015, 03:02 PM | #37 |
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I love looking at the set-ups from warm weather reefer's. If I ran a pipe outside, or kept my filtration in the garage it would be so cold in my tank right now I would have to keep only polar bears in it.
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01/08/2015, 07:04 PM | #38 |
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New bulbs time! I have been experimenting with using an actinic bulb to increase the amount of 420nm light and feel like its been very successful. So I doubled down on it. The actinic bulb I was using was an ATI actinic, and it was pretty old, so I bought some replacements, going with Giesemann super actinic. Since Marine Depot charges extra to ship less than 4 bulbs, I went ahead and got one of the Aquablue Azures, an Actinic blue, and two super actinics. The Actinic blues have an even mix of actinic and blue, I thought I'd try that out. I expected the azure and one of the actinics would end up as spares.
I tried each of them out and I am very impressed with them. The Azure's spectral graph looks very much like the lagoon blue I was already running, but side by side the azure is a clean, crisp blue-white while the Lagoon blue was a bit yellow and significantly dimmer. I started mixing and matching and ended up with the following bulbs, front to back: KZ New Gen Aquablue Azure Super Actinic KZ Fiji Purple Super Actinic Actinic Blue KZ New Gen ATI Blue Plus The colors are off the chart good, the tank doesn't look overly blue, and its nice and bright. I'm pretty fickle with combinations so I may tweak some more but right now I'm very happy. The Fiji Purple bulb is almost 11 months old so I have a replacement for that coming tomorrow and after that all the bulbs will be new or very close to it. Post correcting the blue on the pics is pretty hard with the amount of violet light that is being generated, so keep in mind the blue is way less but the glow is pretty much right on, and its brighter in person:
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01/08/2015, 07:40 PM | #39 |
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Tank looks awesome mchusaey and corals have amazing colors
You really made me rethink my bulb brand and combo In the pic where you show the tenuis(which is beautiful btw),what's the coral down on the left side?Loripes or something else?
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01/08/2015, 10:54 PM | #40 |
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Thanks glaukos! I think that the coral you are talking about is a granulosa, but I can't be sure. It could possibly be a loripes as well.
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01/09/2015, 12:22 AM | #41 |
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Great write up, glad you decided to start a thread about your tank!
I saw a pic of your tank oh a month or so ago and thought to myself that your tank looked a lot like my new tank (just the actual tank ), come to find out they're pretty close - mine's 35x28x20 clear back panel, center overflow, rimless starphire with clear silicone...looks about the same I'm running a 6 bulb ATI fixture with 2 reefbrites - I'm currently running an ATI True Actinic in the mix and have been thinking about swapping out a bulb and throwing in a Giesemann Super Actinic in its place, so I would then be running 2 actinic bulbs... Hopefully this doesn't affect the par too much. Any chance you can get a shot of your leopard wrasse? Thanks!
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I love everything about your system mate, especially the beautiful saturated colors on your acros
I grew up with short haired dachshunds as our family pets - i love your dog too ! Keep doing things the way you are regardless of any water test results........ |
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I am starting the planning for a larger tank, maybe 6 feet long by 3 feet wide by 22" tall... Sorry I don't have a shot of the Leopard Wrasse, he is a shy one. Several of the other fish are photo bombers though, I try to take a picture up close and they mob the glass If i can get one Ill post it.
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01/09/2015, 02:37 AM | #44 | |
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The color on the acros is all real, the shop I buy them from uses 400 watt radiums and they are really pale when I get them but they get really rich color when they spend some time under the T5s. Sometimes they change color so dramatically that they look like a different coral. i had one that was pale white with blue polyps that turned orange, then green. Bloody green acros! The other obsession in my life is our dogs. We actually have 4 wiener dogs, two pure bred, two mixes. Three of them are rescues. I love to show them off so since you gave me an opening, here is Dinky and Woody...heh heh: and here is Buddy: And here is how I end up when looking at the tank...im a human pillow. The white pup is Lily:
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01/09/2015, 02:58 AM | #45 |
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Some more coral shots, this time from the side...Colors from the top are easy:
Garf Bonsai...rescued from near death at one point: German blue polyp(I think): "Pink" planet....keeping this red has been a pain: solitaryensis: The pictures are post processed and desaturated just for you biggles
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Awesome doggy pics, those guys are too cool for words. I'd be happy being a dog pillow again lol.
Trust me mate, i've post processed enough pics to know your pics don't come close to doing your colors justice but i appreciate you not posting non 'mood lighting' pics. Anything that looks like a stunning zeo yellow acro at your LFS is to be avoided like the plague - ALL of them are stressed out greeners It has to be a bloody nice shade of green to keep its place in my display so be brutal, greens are a dime a dozen now days - back in 2000 that's all i could buy, bloody green acros Those gorgonians are taking the spot your blue speciosa should be growing in......... |
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I am surprised to say this, but man I already love this thread. I say this because I have OCD issues, and unless the equipment room is dang near static room clean, it bugs me. But something about your set up makes me smile, and I think it's the sheer ingenuity of it. I don't think I've ever seen a settling tank before, definitely not like that!
Your tank demonstrates just how well your methodology works, it's truly beautiful, congrats on a job well done. I am subscribed for sure.
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"Fishes, dogs, holes around the house, never mowing your lawn.... Your wife must love you"... that was what my friend said to me when I lived in California...Hahaha
BTW, good SPS color. Cool!!!
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The Gorgonian is another weed. I very much like the idea of a speciosa there, but I haven't seen much of those type acros in the local stores lately... Quote:
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Under the tank was really well laid out for example too: I have been truly blessed to have the means to try different methodologies and approaches on the system, and now, after all I tried, its working the best with just a simple Skimmer and Biopellet setup. Sure, the water flows all over the system like a water park, but really thats all it is. I will have a very clean and organized sump under the tank when I upgrade - all the parts will have to fit under there. Thanks for following along with my madness! Quote:
The best part about wiener dogs is you can use "wiener" constantly in daily speech. Add to that that we have a wiener named Woody and the comedy writes itself
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