greg's 150 build

[ToXIc]

lol

 

[greg0385]

oops i hate it you cant edit a old post. "it would for the right price" , it should have said "i would for the right price"..... lol next i will be saying " it puts the lotion on its skin"

thanks for all the kind comments from everyone

 

[islander84]

Looking good bro! I love the open aquascape! Whats your photoperiod on your lights? I have the exact same lighting setup bulb combo as your minus the purple +.....

My tank has been up for almost 2 years now and i am having the same exact issues as you! I run a cal rx that keeps everything stable in my tank, i check alk with hanah, salifert, and rs.

I think i have narrowed down my problem to a lack of flow which is causing a lack of nutrient delivery......

What kind of flow do you have? Lets see if we can get this hammered out! I have been pulling my hair trying to solve the issue, but doing very small changes in my setup and husbandry...... first i pulled gfo offline because my po4 was at 0.00 with hanah, i also have a large refugium full of chaeto and 4 mangroves, next i think im going to pull mangroves....

I feed ON flake 4 x a week, frozen blend of emerald entree,supershrimp, pe mysis 4 times a week, and sheet of nori 4 times a week. No set schedule

 

[Dowtish]

Fwiw, i have read that you have to have 1 mangrove per gallon to see any real nutrient reduction.

Typed from my phone, because I have nothing better to do.

 

[islander84]

Yeah i dont think i have enough room for 200+ mangroves!! Lol! Thats insane! ..... so i guess 4 mangroves isnt enough to make a difference.....

 

[greg0385]

My system turned 1 year old this week and what a year it has been. Big thanks go to my local reef club(MTRC) for all help i have received this year. I have had my ups and down over the past 12 months, but looking back it has been a great learning experience.

I started this tank off with just a school of chromis and have now got over 20 fish( yellow tang, blue tang, 4 blue eye cardinals, 4 green chromis, 3 firefish, purple firefish, dragonface pipefish, neon goby, cleaner shrimp, emerald crab, porclein crab,hermits and snails)

Over 30 high end corals
8-10 head acan, pink lemonade, raspberry stag, honeydoo milli, wt blue stag, wt redplanet, red milli, aqua delight, strawberry shortcake.

dwilliams sps frag pack: bubblegum milli, rainbow sherbert milli, lime in the sky(died apon arrival) pink tip sarmentosa, deep blue tort, bali echinata(icefire variant), blue hoeusemai, blue tip green table, hot pink acro, rommels watermelon, exquisitor acro, ORA ice tort, chaos cyphastria, rainbow nasuta, dragonskin acro, ORA verde, toxic green tort, rainbow pocci, mettalic blue milli,

Sexy Corals Pack- terra del fuego, tri color, oregon tort, garf bonsai, captain america, unknown high end acan, unknown pink zoas, unknown green and gold zoas.

So for my bday today im buying a 90 led kit to replace my MH!!

May this next year be any better!!

 

[shellynjason]

Happy Birthday to your tank!!!! And way to go on your new LED's

I love you you stand build at the beginning of this thread. I especially love the side cabinet door , I want the same thing. I might be hitting you up on some advice soon.

 

[greg0385]

Video of my tank today. My camera on my phone isnt the greatest.

My 1yr old Reef Tank - YouTube

 

[dwilliams87]

Congratulations on the one year anniversary. The tank looked great when I was there yesterday. It has definitely came a long way. Can't wait to see it after the LED upgrade!

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[TankedNTn]

Congrats on the 1 yr mark. Not sure what happened but it won't play the video you uploaded.

 

[greg0385]

Photobucket is jamming so no photos for the moment

Will try the video again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KxPYka50qA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Let me know if it works now?

 

[Dowtish]

Looks good man! You gots lots of fish. Those anthias look great!

 

[gmoney243]

I like ur chiller man haha. And ur skimmer is almost as big as your tank that things hoopty

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[greg0385]

That skimmer is a beast! And that fan does a great job cooling the tank. I hope to have pictures uploaded this afternoon. I need to put a new coat of paint and finally get around to painting those fan vent covers.

 

[greg0385]

Thanks to dwilliams for telling me about uploading photos from the mobile app. Here is a few pics i took yest.

Big thank you for gmoney and dwilliam on helping me choose my new led kit.

I ended up choosing a awesome 90 bridgelux led dimmable kit from aquastyle.
The kit contains:
18 blue(one driver), 18 royal blue( one driver), 9- 10k, 9- 6500k(one driver), 6 UV, 8 violet(one driver), 6 cyan, 6 green(one driver), 6 pink, 4 red( one driver)
The kit came with 5 drivers so i bought a extra so i can control each color as i wish. The kit came with 60°optics too so i hope to have a amazing par compared to what i have with my MH/t5.
Right now my par ontop of my scape(16" down) is 200-250. I believe that may be a reason im not getting great color/growth.
Im keeping my 4-t5s to supplement the new leds and fill in any shadows. The led heatsinks will be at the dimension as my MH reflector so i shouldnt have any issue with it fitting in my canopy.

Stay tune for the led build and hopefully a improvement in color and growth in the near future.

Thanks for everyone's help
Greg

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[greg0385]

First pic terra del fuego


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[greg0385]

I bought new MH/t5 bulbs on black friday(end of nov). While swapping t5bulbs i lost a connection somewhere and lost my t5s for quite awhile i try to troubleshoot the problem. After many weeks rewiring all connection with a new wiring harness i realized that the problem was a connection problem with a bulb making a good contact. So with a twist i had.my t5s back on. But not before all my corals turning completly brown with i thought i had flatworms.
After dipping everything i found nothing but with a par meter i realized that MH only. I was only getting 100-125 par ontop of my acros 16" down. With t5 only was about the same par, so with MH/t5 on im getting 200-250 par and most of my corals are getting some.color back.

So bare with me as i replace the MH with leds so hopefully i can get better par then im getting now.

Thanks
Greg

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[gmoney243]

Ok i lied i may have tp drive down one more time once u get the leds all setup haha

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[LILBUDDHA]

First pic terra del fuego


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Congrats on the year ...
Man u gotta be a tall guy to work in that tank . . Sorry to hear about the par issue.
U gotta love it when u get boogers of frags . It's like a love hate thing .

Here is my booger of TDF

Here is my other one . The real deal !!!. Not that the other one isn't .They sure don't look alike do they ?

 

[dwilliams87]

You'll have to stop by my place when you come down mike.

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