Red_Beard's 75 Tank Build

[DarthRaiderBob]

I blame @That Crusso Kid for inspiring me to be productive with my printer yester-eve and today.

Now i am marginally less disorganized!

Ummm excuse me sir, is that built for specific bricks or will it fit most bricks?

 

[tbrown]

Ummm excuse me sir, is that built for specific bricks or will it fit most bricks?

Yes

 

[DarthRaiderBob]

Yes

Good answer.

 

[Red_Beard]

Ummm excuse me sir, is that built for specific bricks or will it fit most bricks?

I made it for the CVE style bricks that come with most things lately. The meridians, my AI blade, and one other one, i think the return pump? As long as they are 32 x 60 x not crazy long and have the dc cord on the side, not the center, they'll fit.

 

[DarthRaiderBob]

I made it for the CVE style bricks that come with most things lately. The meridians, my AI blade, and one other one, i think the return pump? As long as they are 32 x 60 x not crazy long and have the dc cord on the side, not the center, they'll fit.

Ahh gotcha. I believe all of mine are center plug.

 

[Red_Beard]

Ahh gotcha. I believe all of mine are center plug.

Would be an easy thing to modify for center plug... should someone have the need.

 

[DarthRaiderBob]

Would be an easy thing to modify for center plug... should someone have the need.

I'll have to look at my bricks. I want something different for when I setup the new tank. I just have a shelf setup right now. Which is fine for my current lights but adding in the new jebao wavemaker and my jebao return pump when I switch tanks I won't have room for all of my power bricks.

 

[That Crusso Kid]

I blame @That Crusso Kid for inspiring me to be productive with my printer yester-eve and today.

Now i am marginally less disorganized!

My normal, default setting is to deny everything. However, in this rare instance, I will agree to accept the blame.

 

[Rocks reef]

Ok, as promised, spectral pics!
First of all, to highlight what exactly the difference is, ReefBreeders replaced 2 of the Indigo 440nm LEDs with another 3.5k and 5.5k white one. This is ultimately the only difference between the 2. This first pic is both fixtures, each with only the 1st channel running at 100% to highlight that. 5.5k on the left and 440nm on the right. No lens filters were used on these first 2 pics.

This is with all channels at 100%. It isn't as obvious with the camera looking much bluer than it does in person, but the left side looks much whiter in person and is just that perfect daylight look.

This is what the tank looks like with all 4 fixtures running, on schedule, with a 20,000k filter. This is pretty close to what it looks like to the eye in person, just a hair bluer.

All in all, not an extreme difference, but enough that it pulls that nice daylight look and most important, makes me smile :)

Looks great!

 

[Red_Beard]

20 gallon water change day! Usually it's only 10, but I missed last month's(more like 2, but who's counting? - you don't count @That Crusso Kid! )
Tank is looking much better, but starting to get more bryopsis popping up. I think some flow dead zones are the cause. Going to clean my gyres after i get back from Christmas break and reevaluate from there. We are leaving for the week tomorrow and dont want to change the flow and have all the nems walk off on me while we are gone, or id think about doing it today : )

 

[DarthRaiderBob]

20 gallon water change day! Usually it's only 10, but I missed last month's(more like 2, but who's counting? - you don't count @That Crusso Kid! )
Tank is looking much better, but starting to get more bryopsis popping up. I think some flow dead zones are the cause. Going to clean my gyres after i get back from Christmas break and reevaluate from there. We are leaving for the week tomorrow and dont want to change the flow and have all the nems walk off on me while we are gone, or id think about doing it today

I do bi weekly 20 gallon water changes. Speaking of which I need to do water testing this evening. Where does the weekend go?

 

[Red_Beard]

Fts for proof:

Also this. Even the pent up chumps continue to multiply...

 

[DarthRaiderBob]

Mr. Beard sir, before I go giving my.money to some shlub on Etsy, have you ever printed any hanna racks? Like this:

 

[tbrown]

Mr. Beard sir, before I go giving my.money to some shlub on Etsy, have you ever printed any hanna racks? Like this:

Here's a link to what's available on Thingiverse:

https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=Hanna+Checker&page=1

 

[DarthRaiderBob]

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6593389
Something like this would be great if it had mount holes on the backside so I could hang it on the inside of my stand.

 

[Red_Beard]

Mr. Beard sir, before I go giving my.money to some shlub on Etsy, have you ever printed any hanna racks? Like this:

I have not, but that should be a pretty easy one to print up though. My only hangup printing anything is that my z axis has developed some slop and isnt printing very pretty. I think the wheels are worn out, tried to adjust them to no end already... Still works n all, but i get particular about quality printing stuff for someone else.

 

[MegabiteOG]

Fts for proof:

Also this. Even the pent up chumps continue to multiply...

Tanks is looking great! You are much braver than me with the anemones. I love them but man I've had issues acros and them. And your tank is full of acros. Nice!

 

[DarthRaiderBob]

Your tank is looking amazing.

 

[DarthRaiderBob]

I have not, but that should be a pretty easy one to print up though. My only hangup printing anything is that my z axis has developed some slop and isnt printing very pretty. I think the wheels are worn out, tried to adjust them to no end already... Still works n all, but i get particular about quality printing stuff for someone else.

Quality schmality. Anything will be better than the stack of black boxes I have now.

 

[Red_Beard]

Quality schmality. Anything will be better than the stack of black boxes I have now.

If you are ok with it being a bit rough, sure