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I'm going to steal your refugium light idea. I also hate the clip on CFL. 
beautiful tank and corals!
beautiful tank and corals!
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I have also contemplated adding but a third Radion Pro on another RMS mount over the tank and rotating the lights 90 degrees for optimal coverage. Wondering if anyone out there has run 3 Radions over a 48" tank...
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I have the same tank but different lights. Curious you want to add a third. Do you have wide angle lense? Do you have some shadows on the edges. I saw two kessils over the same tank and it had awesome uniform coverage.
I have a valley rock design as well but ran it long ways so I can look down the valley as I worked next to it at my desk. I was going to flip the other way like you have but was wondering about optimal flow. I just switched to one gyre vs 2 MP 10 and love the wide path of flow on this size tank.
Your tank Looks awesome..jealous how clean it looks.
I have the same tank but different lights. Curious you want to add a third. Do you have wide angle lense? Do you have some shadows on the edges. I saw two kessils over the same tank and it had awesome uniform coverage.
I have a valley rock design as well but ran it long ways so I can look down the valley as I worked next to it at my desk. I was going to flip the other way like you have but was wondering about optimal flow. I just switched to one gyre vs 2 MP 10 and love the wide path of flow on this size tank.
Your tank Looks awesome..jealous how clean it looks.
Thanks! My tank isn't all that special, I look around at so many of these tanks and wish mine could look like that. Your tank is really nice! It doesn't look too dirty. I did see a little algae on the sand, but besides that, it looks beautiful!
As far as the lights go, I have Wide Angle lenses on both fixtures. I put them on because of the shallow depth of the tank and the inability to adjust the light height w the RMS mount. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the lights and the mounts! I installed them in an effort to reduce the shadows and increase the overall spread of the LEDs. I do think that they helped overall. The idea of the third light would be another effort to decrease the shadowed areas and really bathe the tank in light. This also comes as I am filling the tank with more SPS and cutting back on the LPS. I'm looking to go with a SPS dominant tank with a nice little Zoa Garden down below. I feel that my initial idea of the two islands is getting overwhelmed by corals, as the real estate is lacking and I'm in need of more rockwork to mount corals. I have been looking at a lot of these "high-end" tanks and trying to see what it is that they have that makes their tanks stand out and what I can mimic in my tank. I have found that for my taste in aquascaping and layout, one of the main thing that all these tanks had in common was a decent amount of bare white sand. I gotta get some more nice pieces of rock and get these extra frags out of the sand and off the ground. IMO a nice clean white sandbed is a major factor to a visually pleasing reef.
If I could say that I have a reef that I idolize, it would have to be Steves Oregon Reef. (www.oregonreef.com)
I want to have something that looks a little like this...
But then again, who wouldn't?!
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Curious about which one u go with (lighting). I have a radion gen 3 pro and considering throwing on some t5 to compliment it-possibly switch altogether.
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I LOVE EcoTech and ALL of their product. Their staff and customer service is the best out there. I would never bash them or their products, but in my personal situation, it seems that at the least, a T5 supplement is required. I'm getting shadows, possibly because the tank is so shallow and the lights are on RMS mounts, which j can't raise up, to disperse the spread. The Wide Angle Lenses helped a little, but not much. I can say that I definitely miss certain things about the Radions, like the Blue LEDs slowly ramping up and down, dusk to dawn, and the lack of heat given off. For the first time with this tank, I has the temp go up to 82 and had to find my old fan from my last tank and write a code for it on an Apex Outlet to cool it off. I didn't miss those days. I would love to make a serious hybrid fixture out of this SunPower with Radions, but I HATE to butcher a perfectly good $800 light, for something that I'm not 100% positive will be EXACTLY WHAT I WANT. Even though I know that the work will be don't immaculately and if I do it, it will look like ATI produced it that way. I just can't pull the trigger on cutting it up. Also, I like having 8 bulbs to play with, if I cut it up, I will have 4, maybe 5, if I get fancy, but having the Radions not be directly in the center would drive my OCD up the wall! Decisions, decisions.
Little update...
I ordered a Vertex 1.5L ZEOvit reactor as part of the ZEOvit Starter Kit, through BRS. I also ordered a Vertex Rx-U 1.5L Universal Media Reactor for Activated Carbon, which will replace my BRS GFO/Carbon Reactor, seeing GFO is not recommended with the ZEOvit System. To go along with the hardware, I ordered about 7-8 of the KZ blue bottles of supplements, which seemed to be the most commonly used and popular supplements when looking at other successful ZEOvit tanks.
I will also be removing the Refugium section of the sump. I'm
not sure if I will fill the section with rubble for more surface area for bacteria and to house Copepods, or if I will put a frag rack down there and get a Kessil a160we to replace my h150 purple spectrum. Also... The UV is going offline and being removed as per the ZEOvit hide recommendations. I'm actually getting excited to replumb the system... Kinda wish I had ordered a few sections of colored PVC to make it all fancy.
Any opinions, experiences or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
I ordered a Vertex 1.5L ZEOvit reactor as part of the ZEOvit Starter Kit, through BRS. I also ordered a Vertex Rx-U 1.5L Universal Media Reactor for Activated Carbon, which will replace my BRS GFO/Carbon Reactor, seeing GFO is not recommended with the ZEOvit System. To go along with the hardware, I ordered about 7-8 of the KZ blue bottles of supplements, which seemed to be the most commonly used and popular supplements when looking at other successful ZEOvit tanks.
I will also be removing the Refugium section of the sump. I'm
not sure if I will fill the section with rubble for more surface area for bacteria and to house Copepods, or if I will put a frag rack down there and get a Kessil a160we to replace my h150 purple spectrum. Also... The UV is going offline and being removed as per the ZEOvit hide recommendations. I'm actually getting excited to replumb the system... Kinda wish I had ordered a few sections of colored PVC to make it all fancy.
Any opinions, experiences or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Recently got a frag pack from Adam at BattleCorals and I couldn't be happier... so happy in fact, that I ordered another frag pack tonight!!!
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