I really like the light so far. It’s well built, has the quality feel. Looks great suspended over the tank in my opinion. At 17” off the water I currently run it @ 10/10/90/15/90/90, and love the look inside the tank. It’s a crisp icey blue. My Walt Disney’s coloration imo is even better now than it was under the prime 16+ a80 combo in the old tank. The wd is kind of my barometer for the light’s performance lol.
I’m using a simplicity dc1600 as my return, lowest setting with an rfg. I think I ended up spending around $150 on the plumbing? All one inch pipes and fittings.
What do you think helped with it?Quick little update- cyano is gone.
Probably changing the main sock more frequently and staying consistent with maintenance. But mostly time. I think the dino->cyano was more or less a symptom of the newer setup figuring itself out while the established rocks helped it along.
That’s a good idea, let it get really established. I get all of my stuff locally, between a couple different lfs. I trade frags in here and there to help with cost. Frag swaps or shows are great to get top shelf stuff cheaper, though right now not really realistic. My local club is still having meetings, another good way to pick up cheap frags, but I can’t say that I trust people enough to be collectively responsible in that setting for me to go.
See you have a jebao slw-10. Would you recommend 2 of them for a 40b or increase to 2 slw-20sPicked up a forest fire digi today as well as some more snails. I’d love to find some black footed trochus snails locally but no luck. Dunno where I’m gonna put the digi, it’s in the frag-fuge for now, dropped a jebao slw-10 in there. I need to frag up my fireworks cloves.
Ohhh, I don’t know if they’d have enough punch to be honest, depending on what you want to keep I guess. Imo they have the tendency to lose some flow quickly as well if you don’t clean them frequently. I would either go for the larger ones or check out the rp-m’s
Building tank for soft and lps. So you’d recommend the slw-20 over slw-10
I can’t make a definite answer because I haven’t tried to use them in that application, but I’d rather have more than enough flow available than not enough.
How’s that skimmer working? Would you recommend it. Doing the same exact build 40/20I’m finally upgrading my Innovative Marine 14 gallon peninsula. It’s been running for 3 years, so planning to break it down is a bit bittersweet. But, it’s time.
We’re moving on up to a 40 breeder with a 20 long sump! And a whole lot of diy. So far, I have built the stand, installed the Fiji Cube baffles into my sump. Got a loooooong ways to go. I think next up will be putting together an electronics/equipment panel and drilling/plumbing.
The skimmer is great! I’ll say it’s definitely not super quiet, but it pulls really nice, dark skimmate consistently. It does still let out some micro bubbles, but those don’t even make it out of the skimmer chamber. I would buy it again for sure.
