Hemmdog’s 90gal Seaciety and 40gal Vale of Shadows

[Hemmdog]

My red goni from @Legendary Corals is getting big!

 

[Magellan]

My red goni from @Legendary Corals is getting big!

Oh so you do still have an aquarium!! I’m sure you post this regularly, but what do you keep your nutrients at?

 

[Hemmdog]

Oh so you do still have an aquarium!! I’m sure you post this regularly, but what do you keep your nutrients at?

Yes yes, two in fact! Lol.
I run Zeovit but haven’t used the full amount of Zeovit media yet. My nutrients are 20 NO3 0.04 PO4

 

[Magellan]

20 no3, interesting. Is that on purpose, or is that why you started zeo?

 

[Hemmdog]

20 no3, interesting. Is that on purpose, or is that why you started zeo?

Nah, not on purpose but that’s when the majority of my corals in the mixed reef look best. I actually had lower NO3 when I ran triton w/ Red Sea aminos&traces , but the growth and color is much better with Zeovit. Once I use the full amount of Zeovit media for my tank size, the nutrients should lower quite a bit more. They recommend you start at 60% of the media and work up. I’m changing the media this weekend so we will see how that affects my nutrients.

 

[Gcowles]

While I’ve got a pond of water in mine, it’s not that necessary. You don’t want to make a pool that is sealed off from the rest of the tank. Make your false bottom and line the pool with a plastic screen and cover the edges with rocks. This allows you to easily drain the water if needed from the entire tank since it’s exposed. Did you put silicone on the back of the tank before spraying the foam?

 

[Magellan]

Nah, not on purpose but that’s when the majority of my corals in the mixed reef look best. I actually had lower NO3 when I ran triton w/ Red Sea aminos&traces , but the growth and color is much better with Zeovit. Once I use the full amount of Zeovit media for my tank size, the nutrients should lower quite a bit more. They recommend you start at 60% of the media and work up. I’m changing the media this weekend so we will see how that effects my nutrients.

Mine have historically been around 4, but I dosed Fluconazole to get rid of some bryopsis and noticed that my zoas exploded in higher nitrates. New heads everywhere! (Had to remove purigen and carbon to dose, and I don’t run a skimmer). Sps definitely wasn’t happy, but I think that was due to chemical warfare that would normally be a non-factor. Hard to be sure, but I’m considering dosing just to experiment.

 

[Hemmdog]

While I’ve got a pond of water in mine, it’s not that necessary. You don’t want to make a pool that is sealed off from the rest of the tank. Make your false bottom and line the pool with a plastic screen and cover the edges with rocks. This allows you to easily drain the water if needed from the entire tank since it’s exposed. Did you put silicone on the back of the tank before spraying the foam?

Oh I see. No I didn’t use silicone on the back, everything I was reading said don’t do that and just clean it well with RO water then apply foam directly on the glass. I used a lot, it’s not going anywhere.

 

[LRT]

Skribed

 

[Hemmdog]

I went with a spectral designs vivarium light. It has great reviews from some people on dendroBoard. Built in the USA and it’s for vivariums specifically, warranty, sunrise/sunset, controller, apparently super bright if I need it to be. It’s going to be niceee.

 

[lilgrounchuck]

Do they grow plants well and look good? All the leds I saw that were 24 long had a bluer spectrum than I am looking for.

Yeah they grew plants just fine. I even used those same shop lights on bakers racks in basement to keep my wife’s potted plants going in the winter and for starting veggies off early when we lived in Colorado.

Something like this would work too

NICREW ClassicLED Plus Planted Aquarium Light, Full Spectrum LED Fish Tank Light for Freshwater Plants
It’s full spectrum and the customer pics don’t look blue. Another led option would be a finex planted plus. It’s full spectrum, you can control the rgb channels, and it has a built in ramp timer. You can set it up to that nice pink sunrise/sunset effect which ramps up to full daylight, and the sunset fades into a moonlight setting for awhile. I had one on the planted tank I just took down and it grew plants great. With the amount of light it kicked out it’d have no problem coloring up broms nicely.
Finnex Planted+ 24/7 HLC Aquarium LED Light

 

[Sharir]

Wow that was simply Awesome thank you @Hemmdog.

 

[Hemmdog]

Wow that was simply Awesome thank you @Hemmdog.

Thank you for reading!

 

[Hemmdog]

Yeah they grew plants just fine. I even used those same shop lights on bakers racks in basement to keep my wife’s potted plants going in the winter and for starting veggies off early when we lived in Colorado.

Something like this would work too

NICREW ClassicLED Plus Planted Aquarium Light, Full Spectrum LED Fish Tank Light for Freshwater Plants
It’s full spectrum and the customer pics don’t look blue. Another led option would be a finex planted plus. It’s full spectrum, you can control the rgb channels, and it has a built in ramp timer. You can set it up to that nice pink sunrise/sunset effect which ramps up to full daylight, and the sunset fades into a moonlight setting for awhile. I had one on the planted tank I just took down and it grew plants great. With the amount of light it kicked out it’d have no problem coloring up broms nicely.
Finnex Planted+ 24/7 HLC Aquarium LED Light

Nice nice. I did go with leds, I picked spectral designs, I posted a pic of what it looks like in the above post. The dimensions of the one I picked should be perfect for my vivarium.

 

[lilgrounchuck]

Nice nice. I did go with leds, I picked spectral designs, I posted a pic of what it looks like in the above post. The dimensions of the one I picked should be perfect for my vivarium.

Awesome man. I do miss keeping PDFs. I’m in the middle of a move and just sold off my last 18x18x24. I used to love listening to them. They’d call when it stormed. What was really cool was my leucs would call like crazy when I’d play call of duty or something with some booms in it. They sound like birds. If you go with tincs you likely won’t hear them if the tank is closed up, their call is very quiet compared to others. What’s cool is you can go to dendrobates.org and play calls by the tank and it’ll usually get them riled up. I’d do it in the morning after the first mist and lights on and usually I’d find eggs when I came home from work.

 

[Hemmdog]

Awesome man. I do miss keeping PDFs. I’m in the middle of a move and just sold off my last 18x18x24. I used to love listening to them. They’d call when it stormed. What was really cool was my leucs would call like crazy when I’d play call of duty or something with some booms in it. They sound like birds. If you go with tincs you likely won’t hear them if the tank is closed up, their call is very quiet compared to others. What’s cool is you can go to dendrobates.org and play calls by the tank and it’ll usually get them riled up. I’d do it in the morning after the first mist and lights on and usually I’d find eggs when I came home from work.

That’s so cool!!

 

[lilgrounchuck]

That’s so cool!!

it would get the imis going especially crazy. They’d start calling and chasing right off the bat. Those calls are also an easy way to sex frogs: it almost always results in every male calling.

 

[lilgrounchuck]

Here’s a few pics from some of my old vivid. The 29g was lush and I was just running 2 6500k Lowe’s cfls. I’ll dig around for more. I did an 18 cube with 3/16 glass, then built out an army of 18x18x24 from windows that got pulled from an apartment building getting torn down. I think it cost me about $40/viv. Way easier when you’re not holding back hundreds of pounds of water.

 

[Hemmdog]

Here’s a few pics from some of my old vivid. The 29g was lush and I was just running 2 6500k Lowe’s cfls. I’ll dig around for more. I did an 18 cube with 3/16 glass, then built out an army of 18x18x24 from windows that got pulled from an apartment building getting torn down. I think it cost me about $40/viv. Way easier when you’re not holding back hundreds of pounds of water.

Beautiful! Wow!

 

[lilgrounchuck]

Oh I see. No I didn’t use silicone on the back, everything I was reading said don’t do that and just clean it well with RO water then apply foam directly on the glass. I used a lot, it’s not going anywhere.

Putting the GS foam directly on glass will make it easier to redo later if you want. It’ll stick in place, but it’ll all also pull off clean when you want to take it out. I did one that I siliconed first and it was a nightmare trying to get the background off.