Aquatop Recife 40eco

[Jr villa]

Hello everybody, I had to tear down my 14 biocube at the beginning of the year. But hopefully everything goes good with a future home buy. In the mean time I picked up an aquatop Recife 40eco. I just picked up a hydra32hd, from another member of this forum. Was hoping I could get some lighting schedules from those of you currently using this light. Plans for future tank is to keep all lps and zoas. I had a kessil last go around. So AI is completely new to me. Picture is from previous owner before I bought it.

 

[JustDewwit]

Welcome back, great reboot OTW

 

[Jr villa]

Thanks, this was the exact size I wanted before I had to step away from the hobby. Looking forward to getting this baby set up and dialed in

 

[fisherc92]

same tank ! good luck ! i have a upgraded return pump in mine, 490GPH and a random flow nozzle, if yours doesnt get a nice PHead down there bottom left

 

[Jr villa]

Thx @fisherc92 . Mind sharing some pics?

 

[Jr villa]

Also how long have you had your tank?

 

[flyhpr]

I have been working on my own build thread. I need to update my thread and take some new pictures.

AIO Build - Aquatop Recife ECO 40 Gallon

Background I last had a saltwater tank in 2001. It was a 55 gallon FOWLR tank that was pretty simple. I had a porcupine puffer that I absolutely loved. He passed away and I shut down and sold the tank when I moved. In 2015 I purchased a 90 gallon tank. It was a tall, so it was 36 X 24 X24...

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[fisherc92]

Also how long have you had your tank?

its 3.5 months into setup. click my profile on here and gop through some of my posts. youll see alot of pictures in there / problems ive run into. not many with the actual tank as far as problems. id say the only one i have is my return pump is so strong it is hard not to have the water within a inch of the top of the aquarium.

 

[JAC-]

Cheers friend,

I'm running the same tank. It's about 5 months old now.

I had and am still having issues with the skimmer. No matter what I did with the air flow I couldn't get it to work consistently.

If you find the same problem, I ended up shoving a piece of sponge into the little circular pump inlet to slow the water flow down and that did the trick more or less. Just have to pull it out and clean it every couple of weeks.

I'm moving soon, but after that I'll be building an overhead sump and putting a different skimmer in it as well as some filter socks.

I also replaced the light as soon as I could afford to. I went with a redsea 90w. I had to mount it on the side so I didn't have to remove it every time I wanted to pull out the filter baskets.

The lights work too differently for my settings to be helpfull to you, but I'm sure others will chime in.

Best of luck to you friend.

 

[fisherc92]

Cheers friend,

I'm running the same tank. It's about 5 months old now.

I had and am still having issues with the skimmer. No matter what I did with the air flow I couldn't get it to work consistently.

If you find the same problem, I ended up shoving a piece of sponge into the little circular pump inlet to slow the water flow down and that did the trick more or less. Just have to pull it out and clean it every couple of weeks.

I'm moving soon, but after that I'll be building an overhead sump and putting a different skimmer in it as well as some filter socks.

I also replaced the light as soon as I could afford to. I went with a redsea 90w. I had to mount it on the side so I didn't have to remove it every time I wanted to pull out the filter baskets.

The lights work too differently for my settings to be helpfull to you, but I'm sure others will chime in.

Best of luck to you friend.

I'm using a 90w reefled on mine as well and having trouble dealing it in. Had it too high now I might have it too low. Care to share your schedule

 

[JAC-]

I'm using a 90w reefled on mine as well and having trouble dealing it in. Had it too high now I might have it too low. Care to share your schedule

Sure friend,

I will say after the latest firmware update it's a little buggy going back from manual to automatic so watch out for that.

I'm running the attached every day, and I do have the moon cycle turned on.

I ran the acclimation for 50 days starting at 30% and it was really helpful.

That what you were looking for or did you want more detail?

 

[fisherc92]

Sure friend,

I will say after the latest firmware update it's a little buggy going back from manual to automatic so watch out for that.

I'm running the attached every day, and I do have the moon cycle turned on.

I ran the acclimation for 50 days starting at 30% and it was really helpful.

That what you were looking for or did you want more detail?

Thank you. I had the whites at above 50% and blues at 80% and burnt the corals. I had the acclimation on but still toasted em. From what I've read the white is what does it. My current schedule and I'm still waiting for my corals to adjust in a good way.

 

[fisherc92]

Sure friend,

I will say after the latest firmware update it's a little buggy going back from manual to automatic so watch out for that.

I'm running the attached every day, and I do have the moon cycle turned on.

I ran the acclimation for 50 days starting at 30% and it was really helpful.

That what you were looking for or did you want more detail?

Howd you come up with giving your whites that peak? You think my whites are too low?

 

[JAC-]

Howd you come up with giving your whites that peak? You think my whites are too low?

You're welcome friend.

I'm certainly not an expert on lighting, but I'd think you should be fine where you are.
My understanding is nothing in the white range is required for the corals, it is just there for people to see. If you go full blue, things look kinda funky. I could be way off on that, but I ran only blue for a few weeks with no issues.

The peak on the whites was actually an attempt to balance out some algae. I didn't want to kill it all but I wanted less of it. It ended up doing what I wanted and I liked it so I kept it going.

Or were you asking how I did it?

 

[Jr villa]

@fisherc92 @JAC- thanks fellas. @JAC- i was honestly of doing the same thing you did. Building a canopy for mine. I was thinking of ways to build it where I’d still have easy access to the back chambers. Love the inspiration

 

[JAC-]

@fisherc92 @JAC- thanks fellas. @JAC- i was honestly of doing the same thing you did. Building a canopy for mine. I was thinking of ways to build it where I’d still have easy access to the back chambers. Love the inspiration

Thanks friend,

Yes the light was shining in our eyes and it made for a unpleasant addition to the room.
All I did was make an L that sits on top of the tank. Luckily for me the tank is in a location where only two sides are primarily visible.

I'd love to see what you come up with.

 

[Jr villa]

That’s smart

 

[JAC-]

That’s smart

Thanks friend, you are much too kind.

 

[Jr villa]

I’m thinking of a way that I can mount the hydra 32. But don’t want to add stress to the top of the glass. So that’s what I’m dealing with now lol

 

[JAC-]

That is a brilliant idea that I didn't even consider. I'm going to have to think about redoing mine now.

Thanks friend.