My Mushroom Garden Table Saga 2.0 build thread

[LRT]

Couldn't wait had to set up and make corrections!
All in all I'm ok with the light escape. I have almost no light over spill into sump and if I was to tighten up any further not sure how it would breathe

Reefing is pretty much 100% around here. When I'm at work I'm on R2R trying to keep myself sane. When I'm home I'm tinkering making it all better. When I'm sleeping im having nightmares about certain reefing issues until I get a solution. When I wake up I fine tune thing before I got to work

 

[LRT]

Late night table #4 flow spam. This is how table #2 looks without the Tupperware deflection.
I have a 900 gpd pump in sump 1 and 2 pumping up about 3' turned all the way up in table 1 and 3.
Table 1 flowing through 2"L catch deduced to 1" moving water through it to table 2 #3 is doing same thing minus the Tupperware deflector.

Speaking of which. Tables #3 and 4 are ready to rock right now
I'll add the defelction later.

 

[danieyella]

Mushroom talk: what is this?

 

[F i s h y]

Mushroom talk: what is this?

Beautiful...

 

[danieyella]

Beautiful...

Lol thanks, it's normally much bigger and fluffier but both it and the mini maxi are not stoked about the tank transfer this afternoon still.

 

[F i s h y]

Lol thanks, it's normally much bigger and fluffier but both it and the mini maxi are not stoked about the tank transfer this afternoon still.

How did everything go?

 

[danieyella]

How did everything go?

Pico all moved over! Looks good, just waiting on those two and random zoas to calm down about it. It's barely bigger than the other one was, but the layout is much different and it's running cooler which is a relief. The other ran at 82 and this one seems to be stable at 77, which may be part of why there are random sulkers still. Keeping an eye on the acros, might need to bump up the light a little bit % wise, not sure yet. Pulled all the bubble algae I could find, I think I'm going to get a small emerald crab and a mexican turbo (for my patch of red turf) to temporarily live in there.

 

[F i s h y]

Pico all moved over! Looks good, just waiting on those two and random zoas to calm down about it. It's barely bigger than the other one was, but the layout is much different and it's running cooler which is a relief. The other ran at 82 and this one seems to be stable at 77, which may be part of why there are random sulkers still. Keeping an eye on the acros, might need to bump up the light a little bit % wise, not sure yet. Pulled all the bubble algae I could find, I think I'm going to get a small emerald crab and a mexican turbo (for my patch of red turf) to temporarily live in there.

Go with a small astrea snail instead of a turbo, they stay smaller and do a good job

 

[danieyella]

Go with a small astrea snail instead of a turbo, they stay smaller and do a good job

But they don't eat red turf, I've played this game with my big tank. There's already an astrea who lives in the pico regularly and it takes care of literally everything except that red turf. Mexican turbo specifically was the *only* thing that would touch it in the big tank to eradicate it.

 

[sp1187]

are we done yet?

 

[LRT]

Mushroom talk: what is this?

Lol bumped off me own thread again.
Idk your gonna have to send one so I can inspect it Very nice.

Speaking of turf algae you ever get a scrubber set up?

I'm about to go on a turf algae rampage next few days and totally remove and eradicate it from my system.
Since I got through this chemiclean blast, my water source cleaned up, oxygen in my tank its looking a little different like its gonna take care of itself as long as I stay on it. Turning from dark brown to a greener or lighter color and not growing back in most places.
Shrooms hate whatever it is though.

@Lost in the Sauce check out Roxanne above the other red disco in left side. This is what happens when I show her too much love she gets all bossy and tries to start running things on me haha

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

I'm not sure what I'm looking at, other than a drool worthy collection..

 

[LRT]

I'm not sure what I'm looking at, other than a drool worthy collection..

My bad this Roxanne has nearly doubled in size in last week since I gave her a real spot on table
I'm gonna remove all her babies and start a new table here when I get things cleaned up in next few days.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

My bad this Roxanne has nearly doubled in size in last week since I gave her a real spot on table
I'm gonna remove all her babies and start a new table here when I get things cleaned up in next few days.

Dangit. That's what I THOUGHT was up. She looks eugeeeeeee!! What par do you think she's sitting under?

 

[LRT]

Dangit. That's what I THOUGHT was up. She looks eugeeeeeee!! What par do you think she's sitting under?

Honestly I have no idea at this point. Hottest spot under my table was sitting at 125-150 par before I raised my lamp.
Really need to get meter back and see whats up. If I was to guess probably somewhere around 75par. They like the lamp for sure.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Gotcha. Now that I've got my aquascape set and the new lights set on the display tank, I think it would behoove me to get a meter and test where I have everything.

 

[LRT]

Gotcha. Now that I've got my aquascape set and the new lights set on the display tank, I think it would behoove me to get a meter and test where I have everything.

Definitely reccomend par meter on new lamp especially the new leds with super high par output. I tried to get mine close by "looks" of light. Ended up being off by 150 par to the hot side lol

 

[F i s h y]

Definitely reccomend par meter on new lamp especially the new leds with super high par output. I tried to get mine close by "looks" of light. Ended up being off by 150 par to the hot side lol

I can only imagine what my par is... 3x Kessil A360WE's and 4 39watt t5... sitting approximately 13 inches above tank with 12 inch depth...

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

I can only imagine what my par is... 3x Kessil A360WE's and 4 39watt t5... sitting approximately 13 inches above tank with 12 inch depth...

Par= circumference of Earth

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Definitely reccomend par meter on new lamp especially the new leds with super high par output. I tried to get mine close by "looks" of light. Ended up being off by 150 par to the hot side lol

Do you have one you recommend? I don't have any reefing buddies. Plenty of reefer buddies but whole other set of tooling there.