gcarroll's 260g SPS reef

Cuong · May 19, 2020

Why didnt u connect the two barrels together?

gcarroll · May 19, 2020

Cuong said:
Why didnt u connect the two barrels together?

I really couldn’t find a good reason to do it. The freshwater tank works great gravity fed as I’m not adding freshwater to the display only the sump. Can you think of a problem with filling the tank directly from the RODI?

Reefcowboy · May 25, 2020

Excited to see progress greg! Keep us posted my man

tripdad · Jun 29, 2020

Any update on the tank?

Blue Spot Octopus · Jun 29, 2020

Filling the tank directly from the ATO? the problem is sediment creep

GBRsouth · Jul 5, 2020

gcarroll said:
I really couldn’t find a good reason to do it. The freshwater tank works great gravity fed as I’m not adding freshwater to the display only the sump. Can you think of a problem with filling the tank directly from the RODI?

Only problem with that, is tank emergencies only happen when you don’t have saltwater made up. And you’ll be waiting for your rodi to fill it so slowly while you look at your full freshwater barrel thinking “if only I had of”!

Love the aquascape!

gcarroll · Aug 6, 2020

GBRsouth said:
Only problem with that, is tank emergencies only happen when you don’t have saltwater made up. And you’ll be waiting for your rodi to fill it so slowly while you look at your full freshwater barrel thinking “if only I had of”!

Love the aquascape!

I get what you are saying but in the event of an emergency, I can alway grab a pump and a hose, drop it in the fresh tank and pump it to the salt. Or even drop a tunze in that freshwater tank and mix it there. There are no rules when we are talking emergencies!

gcarroll · Aug 9, 2020

Acros have found their way into the tank.

gcarroll · Aug 9, 2020

TX_Punisher · Aug 9, 2020

Done any par mapping with that light arrangement? I’ve never seen anyone run 4 pucks that close together.

looking good by the way.

CDavmd · Aug 9, 2020

gcarroll said:

Looking frigg’n AWESOME!! Hard to tell in the purple light...did you go with sand?

gcarroll · Aug 9, 2020

TX_Punisher said:
Done any par mapping with that light arrangement? I’ve never seen anyone run 4 pucks that close together.

looking good by the way.

I’m not one for doing things like everyone else. Being a former metal halide guy, I wanted to emulate 3 large metal Halide reflectors. I think the PAR numbers are pretty incredible and very even across the entire tank.

This is the test I did to see what it was capable of. This it the lights at 100% AB+. I am currently running them at 50%.

gcarroll · Aug 9, 2020

CDavmd said:
Looking frigg’n AWESOME!! Hard to tell in the purple light...did you go with sand?

No sand. The bottom is grey PVC so the camera is picking up the blue from the lights.

TexasTodd · Aug 10, 2020

Have you run one starting with dry rock before Greg?

gcarroll · Aug 10, 2020

TexasTodd said:
Have you run one starting with dry rock before Greg?

Yes Todd, my 25g was started with dry rock about 2 years ago. The rock in this tank already has a good seeding of coraline algae since I added some from a friends tank 2 months ago.