Bobssecrtsn 60g cube of terrror!

[bobssecrtsn]

Very nice! Cool to see the different aquascapes and happy to see that you stuck with it through all of those moves. Sorry to hear about the ich battle, but sounds like you made the right decision to go fishless for awhile. Will be interesting to see how your corals react with the reduced nutrients. Staying put for awhile?!?

hopefully my lease is 1 year so i have a 1 year mark for my corals to grow out! and hopefully i will stay here for much longer! and about the nutrients part, im feeding the tank 2 times a day, morning and night!

 

[bobssecrtsn]

Ok, time for a update, where do i start!

A new year has started and a few minor things has changed,

1. QT tank next to display is now 16x16x16 Advance Acrylic Frag tank
2. QT 1 chromis 2 weeks and added to display
3. Added 2x Panoramas LED suppliments 11AM-9PM LED / 1-7:30 MH
4. 1/15/13 temp dropped to 75.5 degrees, removed 200w heater and added 500w heater.
5. Started dosing Rods Food for corals
6. Dosed Salifert FWE, only found 2 dead ones, (maybe because i had my skimmer on ?) direction says to leave it on..
7. 1/15/13 Changed BRS dosing tubes
8. Removed Gonoporia and Hammer coral ( cannot find a dead spot in my tank thats good for them)
9. sps frags on the sand bed are sprouting new tables!
10. 1/15/13 just purchased a quantum sensor and will be able to see what par is in my tank!

Sorry for the crappy pictures, its on a Canon Rebel, idk whats wrong with my photography..

 

[bobssecrtsn]

FTS:

Some before and after picture

sorry for this crappy picture but you can see my strawberry shortcake has encrusted on the plug!

the frag on the sand bed has grown tables

this is the only freshcut frag i had for the base of the acro

some new growth

my small island

 

[bobssecrtsn]

top down shots

(look at the base on this!)

i love this table the most

this is the last picture i took for this tabling acro,

have a nice day

 

[skinz78]

Looking good, nice and clean! Just needs a clam:tongue:

 

[bobssecrtsn]

oh i am looking for a clam, i just need to do some more research about dipping and qting them and such if i need to do those kinds of steps

 

[skinz78]

Nah, you don't dip clams. But I do recommend using a QT.

 

[MarvinsReef]

FTS:

looking good. 1smile1

 

[bobssecrtsn]

Well my Apogee Quantom Sensor finally arrived im using it with a multimeter w/ mV volts. here is my par readings! im using the MQ120 sensor


3" from the fixture is 975 and ill let the picture do the rest!

3” 195
Surface 125
2” 53
10” 36
Bottom 28
L bottom 60
R bottom 44
Island 50
Zoa 28
Hwood stunner 27
SSC 40
Blue stag 54
Front Red planet 34


get these readings and multiply by 5 BTW.. let me know what you guys think! i might have to get more par i feel like its pretty low. and wthell is up with the corners getting 300 par? i tested 3-4 times and it all came out the same.


Ballast is a Vue Technology E-ballast. 250W

 

[Zack]

Very nice.That tank is looking good, can't wait to see the fts when those frags grow out!

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[bobssecrtsn]

ok here it goes guys! 6bulb ATI fixture brand new, could not pass up this price of 360! from a local person here!

here is the par ratings

should i raise up the fixture a bit? its about 10-12 inches above the water line


bulb combo is B+, C+, P+,B+,AquaB Special, B+

 

[Sahin]

Looks very nice. I replied to your thread on the "other forum" about PAR levels haha.

 

[Sahin]

Oh and either raise the fixture a bit or run light for shorter hours for a week or two.

 

[bobssecrtsn]

thanks Sahin, i am cutting the hours back from 12-7:30 2 Coral+ and 1-5:30 4 other bulbs

 

[bobssecrtsn]

a little update, I'm suppose to get my par38 bulb for my little frag tank today but usps did not show up its raining in san diego ATM so im assuming something mustve happened.


as for the main tank i added another mp10 on the left side and my corals are loving the flow! and as for the livestock i just added a pair of clowns today my chromis isnt being aggresive towards them yet.


the male Clown is so funny looking, one side has no stripe and the other side has half a stripe!


FTS 1/15/13

as you can see the small one has half a bar and this is the other side.

i love my SCC..

and my new frag..

does anyone know what this frag is? the inside of the polyps are neon green, with blue tips and greenish base..

Enjoy!

 

[k2parkstar]

Very nice! Is that the powermodule fixture or the sun power?

 

[skinz78]

Looking good, I love the Clowns!

 

[bobssecrtsn]

Sunpower module, they both do look exactly the same dont they? im not sure which is differ..

 

[k2parkstar]

Sunpower module

How do you like it compared to the MH? I'm switching out my 4 bulb t5 to a 6 bulb sunpower.

 

[bobssecrtsn]

Its much better then my 250w. it gives the corals more of a color, and my old 250w fixture did not have that much par compared to this. its about 12 inches above the water line with more par everywhere in my tank