Tenurepro's Redsea Reefer 250

[powers2001]

Great video as always. Love to see the growth.

 

[tenurepro]

Ok... wow
Radion xr15 with 80 deg lens + diffuser seriously outperform 120 deg wide angle lenses!

 

[tenurepro]

Here are my thoughts on the iPhone X for reef photo and video + a comparison w/ iPhone 6

The camera is pretty sweet; the optical zoom is solid permitting some nice closeups of your corals. White balance is really good (assuming light is around 12k or less). Pictures and videos are sharp. Here is a link to a video review along with a few sample shots (taken with radions set to 12k, phone set to auto and no post processing).

I am pleased!



Pink mystic montipora with blueberry wine acro. Not acro growing over monti

RR pink Cadillac

Cali Tort

RR orange passion

Habanero

ORA blue voodoo

Electric myagi Tort

 

[Tahoe61]

Gorgeous sps. Now I have to have the ORA Voodoo.

 

[tenurepro]

Gorgeous sps. Now I have to have the ORA Voodoo.

Yeah! Nice eh? Crazy polyp extension. It is a very slow grower for me. It spent a year just basing out slowly. It’s only now that I am getting branches going up. But lovely coral from all angles

 

[revhtree]

Awesome thanks for sharing this!

 

[tenurepro]

19 month update is here!

 

[tenurepro]

Hi All. I got several requests for a full comparison of the diffuser on both the 80 and 120 Deg lenses.

In summary
In terms of par, we get
80>80+D>120>120+D (where d= diffuser)
In terms of Best spread of light, we get
120+D>120>80+D>80

For me the best compromise of par and spread came with the 80 deg lens plus diffuser

Here is the vid

 

[powers2001]

So with the diffusers you're getting less color separation and disco-ball effect but are you still getting glitter lines. I like glitter lines.

 

[tenurepro]

Hi All, got some triton ICP testing done - see below. Overall, parameters are decent. No signs of heavy metals. Most core and trace parameters are decent, except for sulfur and iodine which are really high. Not sure why; possible measuring error? Tank is looking good so not sure I want to do anything drastic
One positive thing was that I got to double check my testing kits by doing a battery of test during the same time I took the ICP samples
Calcium; salifert 460 vs ICP 457
Mag: salifert 1455 vs ICP 1438
Potassium salifert 450 vs ICP 457
Salifert kits were bang on.
Oddly I measured 0.37 ppm phosphates with the Hanna ULR but got 0.193 on the ICP.

 

[tenurepro]

And some eye candy

And I finally managed to get my hands on a frag that I’ve been wanting for a very long time! The fabled ice fire echinata... it has some coloring up to do but can’t wait!

 

[Branespikin]

Hey man great looking tank. I got same one but LPS. Question i have is how do you have your mp40s set to creat that sway motion in your video? I cant fir the life of me get it to sway. I have one in each side but haven’t sync them yet. Can you send me your schedule please. Thx

 

[tenurepro]

Thanks! You can crest a standing wave with one pump on short pulse mode and the other set to anti snyc slave. You have to play around with the pulse time to get the right wave. Here is a link to video about this process and my flow schedule

 

[tenurepro]

Here is my 20 month update...
ran into a bit of trouble...
1) vectra m1 died overnight because of a driver issue; i didn't have a backup pump so i ran out the next day and got a jecod dcs4000... if you've been following this build, then you'll remeber that i started off with a jecod dcs4000 but i returned it because it was NOISY! The new jecod is virtually silent... on the same level as the vectra! Perhaps my first one was a lemon. Good to have a backup return!
Ecotech decided to send me a new vectra despite it being a half a year after the warranty expired; very happy for that... glad they are standing behind their products.

2) Two of my fish jumped out of the tank this past month... very upsetting. first it was the ornate leopard wrasse, then a week later, it was my female clown fish meano... meano and her partern nemo where the first saltwater fish i purchased, so her loss hit us pretty hard. Alas, as much i love the open top look, i am looking into getting a screen... if you have one for the reefer 250, please let me know your thoughts on buying vs. building one.

3) even more upsetting, my lovely mystery tort start receding at the base on the shaded side... i kept an eye on it for a couple of weeks... and was ready to chop off the colony in case it was STN... i also did a daily 15L water changes for a week and a half in case there was something in the water.... The base recession seems to have stabilized now... but i am watching carefully

4) my ice fire echinata frag RTN'ed... i heard they are pretty finicky, but still disappointing.

5) on more positive news... i got some kick butt lights for underwater videos; going scuba in mexcio and the redsea this summer, and i am looking forward to bring back some of my adventures! If there is interest, i can do a view reviews of my underwater video kit

Here are a few videos from last month... Also, a small request, if you can please subscribe to my youtube channel, that would be SUPER... youtube changed some of the rules, which really cranks down on small channels with less than 1000 subscribers... so if you like my reef build and content, please subscribe... i've been going around and subscribing to all small reefing channels as well to support the little guys! We are the 99%

Thanks!!!

 

[tenurepro]

Hi guys
Here’s is the 21 month update:
Overall, things are good.
-ve : over past month + I lost a total of 3 fish - all jumpers. Clown \ ornate leopard wrasse and my lovely canary wrasse. I’ve ordered a custom acrylic screen top that is pending delivery. In the mean time, I made a top out of egg crate; ugly but gets the job done.

+ve : I got new fish to replace the jumpers. A clown, a yellow tamarin wrasse, and a rarely collected Moyer’s leopard wrasse.

Sps went through a growth spike, see lots of new growth. Colors looking good.

Added chaeto to aid in keeping nutrients stable
At around 5 ppm nitrates and 0.15 ppm phosphates... worming so far. I don’t know what it is but I am finally able to grow chaeto... I haven’t about 4 oz per week.

 

[tenurepro]

Something different - scuba diving Cozumel’s reefs!

There is one fish that you’ll see in the video that I keep in my tank... do you know which one?

 

[DarthSimon]

Amazing Dive Amro!!

 

[tenurepro]

Amazing Dive Amro!!

Thanks Simon

 

[tenurepro]

A little photo dump of new and newish fishies.
First this little beauty - yellow tailed tamarin wrasse called Panda

I got her about a month ago. Spent first week hiding in the sand. When he came out, he spent all of his time picking pods off of rocks - showed no interest in prepared food. By the third week, he took to masstick applied to rock crevices and took down some preserved arcti pods. This week he is finally eating frozen mysis. I think she’ll fit in well.

Here is the new clown - valentine

The yellow tang - lululemon

Lululemon and panda are good friends, they like to cruise the tank together

 

[tenurepro]

Here is the royal gramma, Queen Elizabeth

She is feisty!

And here is Doc the Second (Doc the First died of old age several month ago)