So the tank has gone through some changes in the last 2 months!
I tried my hardest to get zeovit to work on this tank. It just was not going well for me. I lost several pieces and color and growth was not good at all. I feel like the tank was very sensitive and really did try my hardest. I have seen some beautiful zeovit tanks, but i just couldn't nail it down. I decided to go with what I know best and stick to keeping it simple.
I went back to t5 dominant lighting with led to supplement. I also removed everything from zeovit and started a fuge again. I felt like the pls100 was no longer keeping up now that the system was more nutrient rich. I went with a jns sk2 and so far I love it. Super quite and pulling out some nice dark gunk!
For lighting I went with a 8x39w dimmable Sunpower. I removed the 2 middle tubes and added 4 custom arrays of leds. For bulbs I'm running the following.
3x Ati blue+
1 Ati purple plus
1 Ati coral+
1 Ati true actinic
I may try another coral+ instead of the purple+ in the future. Other then that I really like it. The leds let me find tune spectrum and add some shimmer!! It's basically a home made Led Powermodule on the cheap.
With all the changed the tank has reacted great and growth has exploded. Even my zoa's were not growing
Color has come back on many pieces and seems to get better daily. Here's a couple pics...I plan to shoot some more pics at the end of this month.
Light when it arrived
image by touchofklasse, on Flickr
Getting busy with the retro
image by touchofklasse, on Flickr
image by touchofklasse, on Flickr
Skimmer Sex!
image by touchofklasse, on Flickr
Couple FTS. I haven't dialed in the spectrum yet, but I like a bluer tank. I think I'm going to go with another coral+ and it will be good.
DSC_0059 by touchofklasse, on Flickr
Under blues
DSC_0172 by touchofklasse, on Flickr
Going to post some coral pics next.
I tried my hardest to get zeovit to work on this tank. It just was not going well for me. I lost several pieces and color and growth was not good at all. I feel like the tank was very sensitive and really did try my hardest. I have seen some beautiful zeovit tanks, but i just couldn't nail it down. I decided to go with what I know best and stick to keeping it simple.
I went back to t5 dominant lighting with led to supplement. I also removed everything from zeovit and started a fuge again. I felt like the pls100 was no longer keeping up now that the system was more nutrient rich. I went with a jns sk2 and so far I love it. Super quite and pulling out some nice dark gunk!
For lighting I went with a 8x39w dimmable Sunpower. I removed the 2 middle tubes and added 4 custom arrays of leds. For bulbs I'm running the following.
3x Ati blue+
1 Ati purple plus
1 Ati coral+
1 Ati true actinic
I may try another coral+ instead of the purple+ in the future. Other then that I really like it. The leds let me find tune spectrum and add some shimmer!! It's basically a home made Led Powermodule on the cheap.
With all the changed the tank has reacted great and growth has exploded. Even my zoa's were not growing
Color has come back on many pieces and seems to get better daily. Here's a couple pics...I plan to shoot some more pics at the end of this month.
Light when it arrived
image by touchofklasse, on Flickr
Getting busy with the retro
image by touchofklasse, on Flickr
image by touchofklasse, on Flickr
Skimmer Sex!
image by touchofklasse, on Flickr
Couple FTS. I haven't dialed in the spectrum yet, but I like a bluer tank. I think I'm going to go with another coral+ and it will be good.
DSC_0059 by touchofklasse, on Flickr
Under blues
DSC_0172 by touchofklasse, on Flickr
Going to post some coral pics next.