Trido's 210 In-wall

trido · Apr 15, 2018

I posted this via PM about my lighting.... Many black boxes can be hacked into your apex if you have the time and desire.

I have the reefbrites which are dimmed via the apex. The black boxes are all wired to the apex for on and off. Plugged into a power bar on each channel so I dont hog up all of the apex outlets. This most recent set isnt analog drivers so I cant easily wire it to the apex. If the drivers are analog dimming you can easily hack them to dim with a VDM channel. If they're PMW, you need a converter to dim them. In my case, they are resistive dimming which is too much work to hack. I also run two T-5 actinic+ bulbs over the tank for 5 hours a day.

Daniel@R2R · Apr 16, 2018

trido said:
I took a couple pictures with 100% blue and used an orange gel filter. Psycadelic!!

This is CRAZY!! Love it!!!

Maritimer · Apr 16, 2018

Thanks for sharing that video - just absolutely spectacular!

~Bruce, whose black boxes _aren't_ modified

trido · Apr 17, 2018

mdbannister said:
This is CRAZY!! Love it!!!

This is actually the best full blue picture I've ever taken of my tank. I was laughing over the fact that I was holding Fritz sunglasses over my phone

dragonfish · Apr 19, 2018

trido · Apr 23, 2018

I picked up some salt over the weekend.

eric8625 · Apr 25, 2018

Hey, I was just wondering what overflow box you went with and how you like it?

trido · Apr 25, 2018

I built my own overflow box to accommodate the holes that were already drilled into the end of the tank

DeepBlueReef · Apr 27, 2018

Good looking reef! appreciate you sharing your experiences.

trido · May 6, 2018

Here you go @revhtree . I took an updated FTS.

litenyaup · May 6, 2018

Looks awesome!!!

YHSublime · May 8, 2018

Looks great!

Phelipe's Ocean · Jun 11, 2018

This tank is incredible I have been stalking it alot lately[emoji23]im curious which black box are you using? Theres a million different boxes and spectrums and you have been so succesful with them so Im curious what brand these are. Apologies if you talked about it already but I could’t find it in the thread.

Phelipe's Ocean · Jun 11, 2018

Matze said:
Love your tank!
Beautiful corals and fish. I'm totally impressed with your Evergrow lighting setup.
Great to see one hasn't always to bite the bullet of spending big time to get awesome results. Looking forward to the next updates :)

Matze

Is evergrow the brand he is using?

trido · Jun 12, 2018

Phelipe's Ocean said:
Is evergrow the brand he is using?

It used to be, but now I have cheap Mars Aqua. I immediately changed the spectrum with new emitters before they went over the tank. There are 16-18 white of varying spectrum, one red, one green 2-4 UV and the rest RB with about 4 baby blue.

Phelipe's Ocean · Jun 12, 2018

trido said:
It used to be, but now I have cheap Mars Aqua. I immediately changed the spectrum with new emitters before they went over the tank. There are 16-18 white of varying spectrum, one red, one green 2-4 UV and the rest RB with about 4 baby blue.

Thanks!