Jason was great to meet! I got frags from him when MACNA was here last year [emoji4]
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I'm currently in the process of getting my tank running and noticed our setups are extremely similar. I have a custom 125 rimless SCA with a ghost overflow and a modified Giesemann Spectra with 2 channel dimmable T5s. I'm currently talking to James at Orphek about getting a couple of the OR 120's and came across your build, which is amazing btw. I'm looking at adding one violet/UV and maybe customizing a skyblue. How do you feel the skyblue compares to other actinic led strips such as the reef brite xho's or the SB? I'm a bit concerned about the cyan LEDs and was thinking about swapping out half or even all for their 430nm's. Also, any reason you didn't get a violet/UV?
Nice! Post here some pics of your setup so we can chat about it.I'm currently in the process of getting my tank running and noticed our setups are extremely similar. I have a custom 125 rimless SCA with a ghost overflow and a modified Giesemann Spectra with 2 channel dimmable T5s. I'm currently talking to James at Orphek about getting a couple of the OR 120's and came across your build, which is amazing btw. I'm looking at adding one violet/UV and maybe customizing a skyblue. How do you feel the skyblue compares to other actinic led strips such as the reef brite xho's or the SB? I'm a bit concerned about the cyan LEDs and was thinking about swapping out half or even all for their 430nm's. Also, any reason you didn't get a violet/UV?
Sweet!I actually just added a sky blue as well. Awesome light & much nicer than Lumi Light from reef brite. These pics are just one sky blue. Once lite, don't see color difference in leds. Perfect amount of shimmer imo too!
Going to add another one to balance out frame of t5. I'd like to see his thoughts on uv also because I can't decide between that or another sky blue.
So far its been solid! No leaks very quiet and super sharp looking. This 20” is way overkill for a 150gal, but I like the large surface skimming area.So, any issues with the synergy overflow,or is it working as planned? Still trying to decide whether to go rimless or eurobraced with the synergy overflow..
So its been a while since I last updated this thread.
Tank is a bit over 3 months old.
Things have been on auto pilot and Ive been very fortunate to see frags coloring up nicely and the tank starting to have signs of maturity with growth everywhere, coraline showing in many places and things looking great.
I finally took offline my gfo reactor as I had noticed the media was getting exhausted. I watched the slow development of the algae scrubber and think now it can carry the tank’s bioload while leaving traces of nitrate and PO4 for the sps. I could definitely tell color improved greatly as PO4 remained low, but detectable. I feed heavy with 3-4times a day pellets through an auto feeder and frozen mysis, calanus, spirulina brine, cyclops and some “seaweed delight”. Fish are fat and healthy.
Scrubber while running little GFO
GFO Offline. Growth exploded and sps colors improved as well
Halides make the pics too bright. A few pics of T5's and LEDs
Thank you!Looks excellent! I really like what you did with the two dos pumps, looks really clean... ideas
Yes I believe so. I feed a plankton frozen cube as they are extremelly finicky eaters. Cyclops, and small crustacean foods are appealing to them.Looking good! Are those Anthias also known as Purple Queen? If so, how was it getting them acclimated and eating successfully?
Whats going on everyone. Took a few pics of the tank today for another thread and figured would update this tank thread as well. The tank is now 4+ months and I gotta say the sps have really colored up since I took the GFO offline....I moved some sps frags around to new spots where they wouldnt grow into each other as they now are starting to take shape. Also added some lps.
If I could go back and start all my tanks again I would do a few things I now consider big game changers for my experience:
1- No more GFO! Phosphate was the missing link to my sps coloration. I always seemed to get a 6-7 out of 10 for colors and never knew GFO was stopping me from the results I wanted.
2- Algae Turf Scrubber! I dont think I would have had the courage to take the GFO offline without knowing the ATS would keep up with the fish waste keeping the PO4 low. I feed heavy and the algae grows very fast while keeping all nutrients almost undetectable.
3- Keeping more fish...I always kept small fish groups. I plan on adding a blue throat trigger, three purple eye anthias.
4-Feed heavy. As I started to feed heavy colors on montis changed and deeper colors are showing slowly as time goes by. I also increased the MH’s from 3 to 3.5 hours per day. Eventually will increase to 4 hrs as the max.
150 gal tank fish population:
Hippo tang
Yellow tang
Thompson tang
Chocolate tang
Sailfin tang
Foxface
Large Green chromis
Clownfish
3x purple anthias
2x large blue eyed cardinals
1x bangaii cardinal
2x pajama cardinals
Daily feeding:
Pellets mix(auto feeder) 3x day with two spins each time(eheim feeder, generous amounts);
Frozen 1x day(fed @ night)
4x mysis cubes;
1x seaweed delight cube;
1x Plankton cube
1x Spirulina brine cube
A few pics! Sorry crappy camera