72x30x18 DIY build thread

[tbrown]

Hmm.... But my lights arent at 0% white.

Some of the experts say PAR from white doesn't count. Turn your whites to 0%, then check your PAR readings for accurate usable PAR. Whether they're right or not, I have no clue. Whether it's that big of a deal or not, I also have no clue. Are we talking going from 300 to 280? How much of a difference is that going to make?

 

[Stang67]

"Some of the experts say PAR from white doesn't count."

So like calories from chocolate cake, or ice cream or potato chips or.......

 

[tbrown]

"Some of the experts say PAR from white doesn't count."

So like calories from chocolate cake, or ice cream or potato chips or.......

Exactly! That's why we only eat Chocolate Cake Ice Cream with potato chips on the side.

 

[Nate Chalk]

The refugium tested at even steven 200 par as well from orphek daylight :)

 

[Nate Chalk]

Dude I wonder what par was before the change to lower light mount height 6 inches and it was on the higher color less intensity.

I also think the middle kessil is the newest one I added so it's 2 years newer. And I remember reading something about kessils improving the diode layout. Even testing par output between that middle one at the surface and the others there's a definite difference.

 

[Nate Chalk]

Final test with the par meter is the ref breeders pico led I won for the sump fuge.

Red light version hitting 75-50 par underneath and 50-25 edges in my 15*10 space

 

[Projects with Sam]

 

[Nate Chalk]

Picked up a fromia star and and emerald crab.

Star goes in reef
Emerald to the fuge with puffer, wife wanted it. Told he may or may not get eaten.

They had a linckia , was almost double price and I've heard better captive success with fromia. Look about the same to me.

 

[Nate Chalk]

@Stang67 them clams were still there :)

 

[Stang67]

@Stang67 them clams were still there :)

 

[Nate Chalk]

Restarted dosers for phos and nitrate. Fuge is using :) and coral.

Unplugged skimmer plug and letting it just run for co2 scrubbing

Maybe low on phos causing dinos a bit. On the macro. New growth isn't affected. Letting it ride still and cleaning it off with turkey baster daily.

I swear the coral moved more today with the added par

 

[Nate Chalk]

Today's picture walking by everyone at the glass to greet. Even the flame angel and tomini which are by far the least social.

Star fish is good. Emerald crab mia but I figured he's tucked in a crevice munching on something from the fuge.

 

[Nate Chalk]

Ice bath tub or future emergency tank leaking tub :)

Convinced wife we should get one hehe

 

[Nate Chalk]

Have some suspect bubbly stringy stuff on rocks now... hmmm

 

[Nate Chalk]

More par algae load higher. Crushing through phosphate.

Bottomed out. Makes sense. Does em up

 

[Nate Chalk]

Wife took a pic of our starfish today . Apparently really strong and is holding this rock up all on its own. Hehe

And we installed the new UV unit , hopefully this one does not corrosion out of working condition trying a vertical install vs horizontal.

 

[rmorris_14]

Wife took a pic of our starfish today . Apparently really strong and is holding this rock up all on its own. Hehe

And we installed the new UV unit , hopefully this one does not corrosion out of working condition trying a vertical install vs horizontal.

That starfish is chillin

 

[Stang67]

Wife took a pic of our starfish today . Apparently really strong and is holding this rock up all on its own. Hehe

And we installed the new UV unit , hopefully this one does not corrosion out of working condition trying a vertical install vs horizontal.

Atlas the starfish.

 

[Projects with Sam]

haha... the cover of an Ayn Rand book!

 

[Nate Chalk]

It just hit me this am. All the stuff I have going on with the tank.

There's so much.... All the individual corals, fish , food, equipment, equipment for the equipment, supplements, medicine

Good lord