My 90 gallon tank journey

[justingraham]

Helps if u post the pics

 

[justingraham]

Job is done for tonight

 

[locito277]

Job is done for tonight

Looks great!! Mcguyver skills!!

 

[justingraham]

Looks great!! Mcguyver skills!!

Only cause of u buddy

Anyone else who has the new apex does there 8th outlet light up red like this?

Just weird

 

[justingraham]

@hybridazn @saltyfilmfolks @GoVols

Ok so wifey bought me a new fuge light 300 watt one so I now have a kessil 350w to mess around with which photo do u think looks better?

I’m not telling u which is which but @locito277 thought the same as me


New fuge light isn’t it amazing how something as silly as this I was so excited to get? I mean I just bought a new car and I was more excited for this to come this morning

 

[GoVols]

Can you tell any difference with the A350w in between your MH fixtures?

 

[hybridazn]

Top pic looks better to me.

 

[GoVols]

Top pic looks better to me.

Agreed!!!

 

[GoVols]

Justin,
Is the Kessil adding anymore shimmer?

 

[justingraham]

Justin,
Is the Kessil adding anymore shimmer?

Top pic looks better to me.

No shimmer with the halides on in fact I can’t even tell it’s there at all you guys picked the kessil on so many there is a diffence

haven’t seen it with the reefbrites yet tho now have six sets of leds on my tank I need a t-5

Hybrid goes ur Supra working out?

 

[GoVols]

No shimmer with the halides on in fact I can’t even tell it’s there at all you guys picked the kessil on so many there is a diffence

That's what I figured, but the spread looks good with it on.

I can see the difference in the middle with the Kessil

 

[justingraham]

That's what I figured, but the spread looks good with it on.

Yea but there zones a point where if it’s not doing anything par wise is it worth it? I guess I’ll have to borrow a par meter again to see if it ads anything then again kessils par values stink don’t they?

 

[GoVols]

Yea but there zones a point where if it’s not doing anything par wise is it worth it? I guess I’ll have to borrow a par meter again to see if it ads anything then again kessils par values stink don’t they?

You'd have to get a par meter. Kessil keeps their specs under wrap + it's an ole 350.
Spread looks better in the middle of the tank.

 

[locito277]

Looking good!!

 

[justingraham]

Looking good!!

Why thank u

Over the course of four days I have done six or seven water changes and my Corals are starting to get some color back which is cool I also added an ora frag right out of the ora packaging so we shall see if my test frag grows before I go all in again

I think I’m a do four more water changes send out a triton test and start back on no more water changes again as I truly believe my problem was my lights but I’m a try to get my trates and phates down with water changes and start “fresh” so tonspeak with new water and a clean sand bed.

Things that are upcoming I want to do

Change the plumbing on both my returns to 1 1/4 instead of 3/4 I want to see how much flow I will gain in doing this with the fmk.

Slowly bump up my powerheads speed a percent a week or so until I’m in the 80-90 percent

Rearrange my powerheads (2 wavs 2 mp10’s) to get the most out of them as it seems like there is some “dead” spots in my tank.

Add another wrasse they are just so cute.

Possibly more test Corals as I miss my Oregon tort and Pink Floyd

Side note I sent out a quote to two different tank builders for a 5 ft x 3ft x 2 ft tall tank we shall see. If reef savvy is close in price we’ll i might pull the trigger

 

[GoVols]

Side note I sent out a quote to two different tank builders for a 5 ft x 3ft x 2 ft tall tank we shall see. If reef savvy is close in price we’ll i might pull the trigger

... ...;Wideyed ...

 

[justingraham]

... ...;Wideyed ...

Yea we shall see I really want to keep all my equiptment and I’m hopeing with a five foot tank I can still use my mp10’s

Plus I love the shallow reef look and the peninsula look as well

I want to keep the tank on the same wall and a six footer would make the wall look small and all my pre drilled holes in said wall won’t work

I’m trying to make it so all I have to do is remove the old tank put the new tank in and call it a day I do not feel like doing anymore carpentry in my house

Although I was think of putting a refugium or frag tank under the stand of the new tank we shall see we shall see also if it’s like 5,000 I can’t justify that so it may just end up being a quote but I do know the tank dimensions I want has been quoted to another person on this site (not by reef savvy) at 1500 dollars so that is doable especially if he like the tank I beleive it was sqa or sca??? So that might work. I would of course get to make another pimped out stand and canopy that my aunt stain face would get to stain so that’s exciting. Have plans running they my brain now about how to set up the canopy in the same style

Fun fun fun

 

[justingraham]

Also my girl did say our tangs and foxface are getting to big for the 90 so that def means a bigger tank right? By now she has to know how I think

 

[GoVols]

If it's a Reef Savvy... Felix will give a reasonable price for the tank but his crating and shipping are through the roof!!!
I'd just make a road trip and tell him I'd pick it up myself.

 

[Liquid360]

Here’s my 75g rimless with a Kessil on one side and a 250w Halide on the other.

And video to show shimmer