Its upgrade time again 125 gallon (48x30x20)

[ConcreteReefer]

Ok, I went ahead and ordered this from reefgeek today. They had it on clearance for an unbelieveable price. I got the last one.

http://www.aquariumobsessed.com/mm5...&Product_Code=SF-SLTH12x54&Category_Code=SFT5

http://www.sfiligoi.it/files/download/STEALTH ING.pdf

Thats a super nice light.. but 12x T5's is Overkill for a 125g
Your going to Fry everything..
Sfiligoi & ATI fixtures have almost double the Par of Tek, Thats going to be double the output of your current setup (2 x tek)

I think your making a big mistake, take my word for it..

Maybe send TheGrimReefer a PM and discuss this with him, he seems to be the resident T5 expert

 

[ConcreteReefer]

Ok, I went ahead and ordered this from reefgeek today. They had it on clearance for an unbelieveable price. I got the last one.

http://www.aquariumobsessed.com/mm5...&Product_Code=SF-SLTH12x54&Category_Code=SFT5

http://www.sfiligoi.it/files/download/STEALTH ING.pdf

Or you could just run 3/4 of the bulbs, If you got that good of a deal you might as well try to make it work.

 

[iani]

I talked to Greg about it at reefgeek he said that the sfiligoi does not have as much par as the ati fixture and is more along the lines of a aquatinics (he said slightly better than tek). Plus this fixture acording to Greg (he actually fired up the one he is shipping to me) has 3 cords and 3 switches. Each cord controls 4 bulbs. I will be able to get a lot of adjustability with that feature in itself. I'm pretty sure it will be fine. We will see. BTW, the fixture minus bulbs was 500 dollars.

 

[ConcreteReefer]

I talked to Greg about it at reefgeek he said that the sfiligoi does not have as much par as the ati fixture and is more along the lines of a aquatinics (he said slightly better than tek). Plus this fixture acording to Greg (he actually fired up the one he is shipping to me) has 3 cords and 3 switches. Each cord controls 4 bulbs. I will be able to get a lot of adjustability with that feature in itself. I'm pretty sure it will be fine. We will see. BTW, the fixture minus bulbs was 500 dollars.

$500... wow
I would have done the same

You could probably just remove 1 bulb from each bank, that should be plenty of light.

At least you have switches, one thing the ATI is lacking

 

[iani]

Yup, at that price I am determined to make it work lol.

 

[iani]

I added a second vortech on the short pulse mode. So now I have a 1/2" wave going in the tank. It looks pretty sweet.

 

[iani]

Lights are up.

 

[Ian]

Where did you get the bent bars(for lack of a better word) that holds the light fixture?

 

[143gadgets]

Looking good! Any close-ups of that chalice collection?

 

[iani]

Ian, the bars are 3/4" emt conduit, painted black. My friend has a pipe bender so doing a hanging setup like this is really cheap. I probably should have went with 1" b/c this fixture is quite heavy.

Chris, I need to do some closeups in this tank. I'll take some soon.

 

[iani]

A few macros of some chalices and other lps.

 

[iani]

Paly rock

 

[iani]

New Top downs

I grew this from a 3/4" inch frag

AC tiger stripe chalice

favities

Meteor shower cyphastrea

Montipora incrassata

Icefire echinata

Ponape birdsnest

Pink lemonade

ATL raspberry lemonade

Mr. Ugly's red prostrata

 

[iani]

LE Eddy's purple monster

The Large efflo on the right side of the tank

 

[Zeppelin]

Very nice.

 

[revhtree]

My gosh man! Your corals are insane!

 

[iani]

Thanks guys. I picked up a few more things today. Only got a picture of one of them though.

Yellow fungia

 

[Kigs!]

Ian, very nice as usual. Which watermelon is that?

 

[Rickyrooz]

What was your T-5 bulb combo again?

 

[iani]

Vince, that watermelon is a non-lineaged red watermelon. It however looks just like my tyree red.

Rickyrooz, I think the combo is as follows front to back

ATI Aquablue special
GE 6500k
UV super actinic
ATI blue plus
ATI pro color
ATI blue plus
ATI aquablue special
Fiji purple
ATI blue plus
ATI aquablue special
ATI blue plus
UV Super actinic


I think. Do not quote me on it. Its hard to remember a 12 bulb combo.