The Island Reef

revhtree · Oct 12, 2016

I smile when I see you have updated this thread. :)

PmRg · Nov 6, 2016

Hello everyone

has a bit of a problem of high Po4 and No3, managed to raise refuge volume to 20L while I'm waiting for the new sump system that is almosttttt arriving

New video of the tank progress:

jason_mazzy · Nov 7, 2016

great thread

revhtree · Nov 7, 2016

Looking good!

PmRg · Nov 7, 2016

thank you guys :)

dallasg · Nov 8, 2016

great tank!! love the videos

PmRg · Nov 17, 2016

A few FTS shots for today :) everything has been very stable, so far so good, I added new SPS pieces last week and they are looking fantastic.

RO update - new filter installed and working perfectly with 0 TDS coming out of the membrane :) will post technical pictures this weekend :)

Nutrients were slightly high, this happened because my refuge light was almost gone, so I managed to add a very improvised 20L refuge with 2x 18w PLL light... my macro algae started growing daily and nutrients are almost down to the value I like them to be Still dodging the use of GFO media... I hope I can get away with it, monitoring closely.

More news next week :)

tchau.

Daniel@R2R · Nov 18, 2016

Looking good, Pedro! Thanks for keeping us updated!

PmRg · Nov 20, 2016

Hellooo again :)

here it is some of new corals in the system :) :)

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NHreefguy · Nov 20, 2016

Nice looking zoas!

PmRg · Nov 23, 2016

NHreefguy said:
Nice looking zoas!

thank you :) can0t wait for them to become a nice sized colony :)

NHreefguy · Nov 24, 2016

I'm In the same boat. I wanna see some colonies

PmRg · Dec 2, 2016

Hi everyone :)

News.... just upgraded from Gen3 Radions to Gen4 Radions, first impressions the spread of this fixture is AMAZING, reminds me of my old T5 lights with the PLUS of LED shimmering, took some PAR measures and the PAR measures all around the tank is very consistant the values in bottom do not change from below the fixture towards the glass this is really nice at the moment I have a consistent PAR value on the bottom of ~230, middle of the tank ~400 and top of the tank ~550, I'm very impressed with the new lens.

Here it is the install video, "sort of" vlog style ahah hope you like it :)

Pedro

revhtree · Dec 2, 2016

PmRg said:
Hi everyone :)

News.... just upgraded from Gen3 Radions to Gen4 Radions, first impressions the spread of this fixture is AMAZING, reminds me of my old T5 lights with the PLUS of LED shimmering, took some PAR measures and the PAR measures all around the tank is very consistant the values in bottom do not change from below the fixture towards the glass this is really nice at the moment I have a consistent PAR value on the bottom of ~230, middle of the tank ~400 and top of the tank ~550, I'm very impressed with the new lens.

Here it is the install video, "sort of" vlog style ahah hope you like it :)

Pedro

Good video Pedro! Thanks for taking the time!

PmRg · Dec 2, 2016

revhtree said:
Good video Pedro! Thanks for taking the time!

Thanks a lot for your support David :) trying to make news things and getting myself into video a bit more :)

keep up with the amazing work on this forum :)

cheers.

PmRg · Jan 2, 2017

Hello everyone,

Updated pics :)... after escaping a tragedy on the 23rd of December when one of my solenoid valves failed and drained 20-40L of RO water into the sump, bringing salinity down to 1.021 in 48h :( lost a cleaner shrimp :( nothing else.

I need to install an aquarium computer to save me from future troubles uffff

Will post some comparison pics on the 14th of Jan.... it will be around 1month and 2weeks since I installed the new Radions G4.

So for now some pictures I took today :)