300dd sps reef

bwrag · Jan 7, 2015

ethridge78 said:
very nice welcome to the dd club.

thanks

bwrag · Jan 12, 2015

doors should be on this week. then paint. If any one can give my any advise on paint. I was going to Kilz everything (latex or oil?) then on inside of stand and canopy. use epoxy apliance paint. then paint the outside some shade of white. I purposly turned the pic upside down because it was upside down on saw horses.

thats a mini mock tank seperating stand and canopy

Mike&Terry · Jan 12, 2015

Great looking stand and canopy! Looking forward to following your progress...

jackson6745 · Jan 12, 2015

Nice! Can't wait to see it done :)

bwrag · Jan 12, 2015

Mike&Terry said:
Great looking stand and canopy! Looking forward to following your progress...

thank you. hopefuly I can get it half as good as yours one day. Im following your led switch closley I think Once I have ran MH a year and If your still liking led Ill make switch. How are you liking the ats Im thinking of going ahead and getting one.

bwrag · Jan 12, 2015

jackson6745 said:
Nice! Can't wait to see it done :)

thank you. I just checked out your tank its also amazing. Your creative coral placement is awesome.

Mike&Terry · Jan 12, 2015

bwrag said:
thank you. hopefuly I can get it half as good as yours one day. Im following your led switch closley I think Once I have ran MH a year and If your still liking led Ill make switch. How are you liking the ats Im thinking of going ahead and getting one.

Our ATS is growing algae like crazy. We're very pleased with it.

bwrag · Jan 15, 2015

got the doors on now prime and paint. Still waiting on my sump from advanced acrylics.

bwrag · Jan 16, 2015

Anybody got opinion on uv. Considering one or is it money better spent else where? 5-700 dollars for appropriate size. Mine would be gear more towards diesase control

bwrag · Jan 19, 2015

got stand in house and painting tomorrow. wife decided a new location for it. so Before Im move it in there I have to paint entire room. 20X30x12h. but it buts up to my fishroom so I will be able to expand my filtration a bit more. Im now adding a 25 gallon crytic refugium and a few more things. I picked up a 2nd hand santa monica filtration to test if it goes well will add another.

My main reason for post is can someone help me with my coral acclimation. Im going from t5 to MH/LED. with t5 i just put the coral where i wanted it and it did great with mh i think ill have to be alittle more cautious.

jackson6745 · Jan 19, 2015

bwrag, what halide setup are you going to use? Ballast, bulbs, reflectors?

bwrag · Jan 19, 2015

Hamilton cozmel reflectors, 400 w ushio 10k bulbs, lumentek ballast. Then one reefbrite actinic and 2 bml actinic strips

spspirate · Jan 19, 2015

What a fabulous job on the stand and canopy! Great work.

bwrag · Jan 19, 2015

spspirate said:
What a fabulous job on the stand and canopy! Great work.

Thanks I feel like this is dragging out forever but gives me more time to plan

Fin · Jan 19, 2015

Awesome job on the stand and canopy. Definitely want to follow the progress of this one!

bwrag · Jan 22, 2015

thank you

Fin said:
Awesome job on the stand and canopy. Definitely want to follow the progress of this one!

bwrag · Jan 22, 2015

Okay my sump will be her next week the frag section in my sump is. 17"W x 26.5"L x 12"D.

Does anyone have a light recomendation.

Im on the fence with 4 bulb t5 vs a reefbreeder value series led. please give me some input

bwrag · Jan 26, 2015

well not much progress. the sump is kind of holding everything up. because i have to put it in the stand from the top. But i did get the stand painted. also the room. you cant tell from the pic but the wall is more gray than it appears.

butters417 · Jan 26, 2015

instead of using 2 pumps just use the one dc12000 with a manifold to supply the reactors. I have a dc12000 with a 4 port manifold feeding 1 gfo reactor,1 carbon reactor and a UV. and its a basement sump... I dont even keep the dc1200 on the highest setting, still plenty of flow

bwrag · Jan 26, 2015

wow that is good to know. the dc12000 was fairly new when I bought it so i wasn't sure about its reliability so I ordered the 6000 to supplemtent it. since i already got it ill prob just run it on low. maybe it will increase the life of each pump as well. but I'm glad to know its got that much power if i need it.

butters417 said:
instead of using 2 pumps just use the one dc12000 with a manifold to supply the reactors. I have a dc12000 with a 4 port manifold feeding 1 gfo reactor,1 carbon reactor and a UV. and its a basement sump... I dont even keep the dc1200 on the highest setting, still plenty of flow