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Which reefbrights did you have, did you consider the orpheks, or just know the radions were for you? Just curious on the decision to go with so many units.
Corey
Nice wife nice life
This maybe a silly question but I will ask anyway... with a tank that big and it being in a closed off room in the middle of a house. Do you worry about the humidity in the “fish room”?
Do you account for that in the build or is it a non issue?
Very nice! How many inches above the water are the radions?
Thanks,
Nick
20”. That’s higher than most but I don’t want and salt on the lights.
Thanks. I was thinking of mounting mine 16-17” above the water.
What setting are you using and amount of power? I know WWC mounts there’s about 20-22” above water.
Nick
Thanks. Love sharing the tank. Thank you for all you do on R2RAwesome tank! Thanks for sharing!
Thank youLooking good. As someone else said, "Beautiful!"
ThanksAwesome tank build!
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Lighting
I’m a big fan of LEDs. I had reefbrites on my last tank and probably could have used them on this build too, and saved a pile of money. But I like the controllability of the radions.
The light rack was the first thing I constructed for this build. I wanted to install the light rack before the tank was set to allow space to work. That task was accomplished in time but what delayed the installation was me deciding how to raise and lower the rack. I eventually decided on a pulley and winch system but not before the tank was set. Sometimes life gets in the way. Thankfully the tank’s big enough to fit a ladder in.
Thats Josh from WWC in the tank. I couldn’t have done This build without his help and guidance. We’ve been friends for years and it was a lot of fun planning and building this with him.
The light rack not only goes up and down but also slides out. There’s basically two racks. The top rack it connected to the cable that raise and lower. The light rack hangs from that rack via pocket door hardware.
I added safety 4 chains just in case.
I mounted the winch under the stand to keep it out of the way and minimize exposure to salt water.
T5 ballasts are mounted on the light rack. There’s too many Radion ballasts to mount on the rack so I mounted them on the wall.
Thanks for following. Next up the stand.
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