The Miracle Tank

[alimac122]

i'm a rough neck city guy,prefer to say "hillbilly" for a year now n lovin it,wife was born raised in arkansas ,so i got a little in the bloodline here :)

hey! Don’t smack talk all good Arkansas!! This Arkansan was born and raised in the capital city! The only “hillbilly” thing about me is that I like to walk around barefoot.
I have never even shot a gun !!

 

[alimac122]

I’d have to order tomorrow. Hubbs is sleeping and we discuss everything. Is it this one? VIPARSPECTRA Timer Control Dimmable 165W 300W LED Aquarium Light Full Spectrum for Grow Coral Reef Marine Fish Tank LPS/SPS Amazon product ASIN B07SHR6HW1

I LOVE mine @fishguy242 is a great ‘bad influence’

 

[alimac122]

All that being said, I’d love to see how you guys mount the vipars. If nothing else I’ll have to figure that out. You guys have better ideas than I do

the beautiful thing about Vipars is that they come with mounting gear. And I just purchased extra heavy duty ceiling hooks.
I know you’re concerned about them being in the way, but mine isn’t at all and it sits about 9” off the water. And if it did, the mounting gear it comes with has very easily adjustable metal strings. So you can always just slide them up and down as needed.
What Frank convinced me to do was to keep my current USA light at the front of the tank, so I still have ramping :)

 

[fishguy242]

the beautiful thing about Vipars is that they come with mounting gear. And I just purchased extra heavy duty ceiling hooks.
I know you’re concerned about them being in the way, but mine isn’t at all and it sits about 9” off the water. And if it did, the mounting gear it comes with has very easily adjustable metal strings. So you can always just slide them up and down as needed.
What Frank convinced me to do was to keep my current USA light at the front of the tank, so I still have ramping :)

forgot about that @LadyMac ;) :)

 

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Good morning. If anyone is interested, Good Morning America is in Lake Charles this morning doing stories on the storm recovery. Robin Roberts is here.

 

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[brett_schn]

hey @Katrina71 how's it been? everything doing well?
@Fin how's the clean up still?
@fishguy242 you doing any crazy coral cartel runs today?
@LadyMac keep 2 of ur current marine lens (you have 3 right?) and put one on the front and one on the back so u can have ramping like @alimac122 did

 

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hey @Katrina71 how's it been? everything doing well?
@Fin how's the clean up still?
@fishguy242 you doing any crazy coral cartel runs today?
@LadyMac keep 2 of ur current marine lens (you have 3 right?) and put one on the front and one on the back so u can have ramping like @alimac122 did

My pile keeps getting bigger. I still have a Crepe Myrtle tree to cut down and throw on top. Pic doesn’t really have the same impact as staring at this all day out of the front windows. There are over 300 dual bin trash trucks out every day picking this debris up but they haven’t really put a dent in it yet.

 

[brett_schn]

My pile keeps getting bigger. I still have a Crepe Myrtle tree to cut down and throw on top. Pic doesn’t really have the same impact as staring at this all day out of the front windows. There are over 300 dual bin trash trucks out every day picking this debris up but they haven’t really put a dent in it yet.

wow that's an impressive amount of debris. glad stuff is coming back to normal :) I remember my 4 y/o self running around the neighborhood with a chain saw and my dad clearing trees from Wilma. that cat 3 had a hard hit. it took us a week to move the trees just to get out of the driveway. couldn't leave the neighborhood for over a month. that was when we lived more west in the everglades.

 

[LadyMac]

Hubbs said to wait on any new fixtures for now. He’s not comfortable with having that much going on, and is already blinded by the way the currents sit. Also “Don’t you have enough issues and money in that right now?” :rolleyes:
So yeah. :(

 

[brett_schn]

Hubbs said to wait on any new fixtures for now. He’s not comfortable with having that much going on, and is already blinded by the way the currents sit. Also “Don’t you have enough issues and money in that right now?” :rolleyes:
So yeah. :(

ahhh darn. we will figure something else to save the Nem. Are you sure its due to lighting?

 

[LadyMac]

ahhh darn. we will figure something else to save the Nem. Are you sure its due to lighting?

No idea. It’s my first one. I was told it may be flow, and I do have some powerheads on the way just in case. I’ll message current USA and see if they can give me tips on the light settings just in case.

 

[brett_schn]

No idea. It’s my first one. I was told it may be flow, and I do have some powerheads on the way just in case. I’ll message current USA and see if they can give me tips on the light settings just in case.

try bringing whites and blue up.
how old is the tank?
what's the parameters are they stable?

 

[fishguy242]

good morning all..:)

 

[brett_schn]

https://catalog.elmersaquarium.com/products/80-gal-frag-tank-rimless-48x24x16-seapora-3614.html
I want!

 

[LadyMac]

try bringing whites and blue up.
how old is the tank?
what's the parameters are they stable?

No idea on params, tank itself turned a year old on Sept 26th. The rock work and sand is about three. (I need a test kit too...) blues won’t go up any and when I turn whites up I get cyano. I’m slowly getting the hair algae under control still.

 

[alimac122]

No idea on params, tank itself turned a year old on Sept 26th. The rock work and sand is about three. (I need a test kit too...) blues won’t go up any and when I turn whites up I get cyano. I’m slowly getting the hair algae under control still.

I don’t know if this helps...
But I have a rock flower nem (wanted a tester before I got a BTA) and it’s doing phenomenal.

but as I said before this is only on the front.
My vipar is now set to 55% blues and 15% whites. Been slowly creeping up the last 3 months

 

[LadyMac]

This is mine, and I have the regular orbit on a custom setting as well. The orbit isn’t a pro, it’s just the original model.its on 100% blue and I think 50% white. I wish I could find a small enough screwdriver. I could take the splash guards off and maybe cleaning those would help.

 

[alimac122]

This is mine, and I have the regular orbit on a custom setting as well. The orbit isn’t a pro, it’s just the original model.its on 100% blue and I think 50% white. I wish I could find a small enough screwdriver. I could take the splash guards off and maybe cleaning those would help.

Me personally—-
I would swap your daylight numbers a little. The white shouldn’t be 0 during the day. And red seems a little high.
looking at the emittance of sunlight during the day NORMAL (average) conditions IR is highest at sunset and sunrise and there is little to no IR during the day, that’s when UVA and UVB are highest... which you’ll see mimic in white.

 

[brett_schn]

This is mine, and I have the regular orbit on a custom setting as well. The orbit isn’t a pro, it’s just the original model.its on 100% blue and I think 50% white. I wish I could find a small enough screwdriver. I could take the splash guards off and maybe cleaning those would help.

turn ur greens and reds WAYYY down and increase that white. you don't need 50% reds on sunset and u do need high whites during the day.