SaM's 40 Breeder

[Reef UP]

Looks awesome!

 

[Zoacoral]

what kind of footprint do you fell the 36 leds could cover? would you say a 36 x 24 area? or how many do you feel you would need? Reason i ask, i am planning out equipment for my new tank

 

[SaM]

Thanks buddy! The stand was that cheap cause I used recycled tubing from a fence my dad took down at home haha. I just had to buy a 1/2" wood panel, 2 "formicas" or laminates, the slides for the doors and some hours worth of work. Lamp is truly amazing I must admit. The amount of light this thing puts is insane and there's no camera that makes justice to LEDs. If you're on the area feel free to stop by and take a look. I might want to someday buy some frags from you and Luisra. Need to do some budget now :)

 

[SaM]

what kind of footprint do you fell the 36 leds could cover? would you say a 36 x 24 area? or how many do you feel you would need? Reason i ask, i am planning out equipment for my new tank

Depending on the arrangement and distance from each LED, easily 36" x 24". My tank is 36" x 18" and cover side to side. You can tweak a little with optics (currently using 60 degree) and lamp height

 

[Zoacoral]

I may have to give it a try. I might add a t5 retro as well, along iwth the 36 leds. I should be fine that way. Atleast I would think?

 

[SaM]

Pics as promised :D

Acan "island"

Right side

Left side

Some macro eye candy

 

[SaM]

FTS

 

[SaM]

Double post

 

[SaM]

More corals will be transferred in one or two days. Still treating them for algae removal. Then need to do some stops at friend's house to pic up some frags they got for me :D

 

[SaM]

I may have to give it a try. I might add a t5 retro as well, along iwth the 36 leds. I should be fine that way. Atleast I would think?

Definitely, you wont need to worry about cover tho. T5 will add plenty of light. You can add some spectrum not available in the LEDs to have a wider variety

 

[Zoacoral]

wow.... This looks awesome!... Good job!

 

[SaM]

You can't clearly see what's in there, but there are a crapton of zoa and SPS frags :P
pic taken with phone. Quality pics coming later :)

 

[wrasseluver]

This is an awesome build. You have gaven me a lot of great ideas for my 40 breeder.

 

[SaM]

Sorry for the lack of updates. I've been very busy with school and work. Currently building an LED lamp for a 240g tank and LED lamp, filtration system and plumbing for a 150g Cube. Also built a sump for a 125g
Gonna hijack my topic with some pics of what I've been working on recently:
150g Marineland cube installed in LFS (owner is my cousin)

Sump for cube

Drain, return and manifold

Gen-x return pump (2130gph) ouch!

Here's the lamp design for this tank. This will house 72 LEDs and the center piece will hide 6 Meanwells and Typhon controller

Here's the sump for the 125g
Sump is 40" x 13" x 16"

and built a couple of this filter sock holders

Now into some colorful pics, here some of the new stuff i got
Green monti cap

Some rics. Rock got about 5 different colors

and got this free frag of nice zoas

More to come after I manage to clean the tank to take some pics and FTS. So far the SPS are showing some nice growth. The color is not so great but they're getting it back. At least there is great polyp extension and it's actually growing. Some other stuff I got not pictured is a 4" red monti cap. Purple rim montipora, Blue millepora, rose millepora, garf bonsai and some other acros I don't know the names :P

 

[KrautBurner]

tank is looking great,

how much do those rocks weigh?
how many fish (what fish) do you have, and intend to have?

 

[SaM]

Thanks, I got about 20# of rock. It is a nice size but is very lightweight and porous.
I currently have a Cherub angel, swales swissguard basslet and a true percula clownfish. Today I found my baby onyx clown in my filter sock. He got sucked by the overflow. I'd like to get a wrasse (don't know which one), a tailspot blenny or midas blenny and some kind of goby

 

[JaysonMR]

becarful whit the tailspot blenny they like to pic acroporas ...

 

[SaM]

Here some more pictures. Some of the better looking corals right now. Some SPS are looking pale. At least they're growing and polyp extension is great. Checked my levels and everything looks good to me. Ca 460, Alk 8.5, PH 8.1, Nitrates 0. Didn't checked Mg cause I'm lazy and phosphates I ran out of reagent for my Hanna checker. Decided to drop the light intensity to see if it's too much light but I was running just close to 50%. Right now Blues are @ 40% and whites @ 30%

Full Tank

 

[reefingsaw]

thats a whole lot of frags lol would be a nice grow out

 

[SaM]

I know right! :xd:

Also built a lamp for my frag compartment in my sump