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Sorry, old dude here. What is "IG"?Thank you! I have a ton of photos of my coral over on IG. Check it out if you want... CC_Reefkpr
IG is InstagramSorry, old dude here. What is "IG"?
Hello everyone. My name is Phillip aka Reefkpr on Youtube and CC_Reefkpr on IG. I've been Reefing for 25 years but fairly new to keeping SPS. I also have a 58 Gallon Oceanic Reef that has been running consistently for 25 years and a 40 gallon Breeder Frag tank. I'm Retired and totally addicted to this this hobby. I planned on Documenting and creating a build thread from the beginning of this build, but time just slipped away from me. (Lazy). I've finally decided to start my build thread but kind of work in reverse and show you the progress along the way. My tank is a Red Sea Reefer 525XL and is Currently 1 year 9 months old. Everything was started from frags. I welcome feedback and try and read and respond to any questions. Appreciate everyone following along. Below is a full tank shot on 1/22/19.
Equipment:
Lighting: 3 ea. Ecotech Radion G4 Pros running Coral Labs AB+ extended at end of day for all blues. Overall intensity 50% Controlled with Reeflink
Flow: 2 ea. Maxspect Gyre XF-250's set to LTC mode at 60%
Return pump: Reef Octopus Vario S-8 Controlled with Apex at 75%
Heater: Ehiem Jager 300w controlled with Apex
Controller: Apex 2016 With Fire Tablet for display.
Nutrient export: AquaMaxx Q2 Skimmer and Santa Monica Rain 2 Algae Turf Scrubber.
Dosing Pump: GHL 2.1 Doser recently replaced 4 days ago with Vertex Calcium Reactor
Additives: Salt: Red Sea Blue Bucket. I was using AquaForest Reef Salt but had 2 bad batches. AquaForest Comp 1 2 3, ABVE, AF Life Source, AquaVitro Fuel, Kent Coral Vite,
Rock and Sand: Dry Pukani, Tropic Eden Mini Flakes.
Recent changes to dosing: Vertex Rx-C 6D Calcium Reactor, Aquarium plants CarbonDoser, Kamoer FX-STP Peristaltic pump. Reborn media mixed with Remag. Today is day 4 of it running.
I'll continue to post pictures of how I got to this point and look forward to your comments and questions. Happy Reefing!
Any idea what intensity and settings they where running before you added the T5’s?I sure do. Here are the Par values of my Radions only. I recently added a T5 Hybrid to help with shadowing.
Sorry, old dude here. What is "IG"?
Here is my schedule.. All points are 100% blues, UV and violet except for peak of day. Peak of day shown in the screenshot.Any idea what intensity and settings they where running before you added the T5’s?
Thanks heaps!Here is my schedule.. All points are 100% blues, UV and violet except for peak of day. Peak of day shown in the screenshot.
Switches between Reefcrest and pulse. 55% 1sec in pulse. Also running 2 Sicce XStreams in the back corners at 100% Impulse.
In ReefCrest I run anti sync same percent. In Expanding pulse mode both pumps are set to 1 second pulses same percent independently.Your second mp40 is at antisync at the same % ?