Velcro's 93g SPS cube

Velcro · Oct 16, 2017

HairyGary said:
Good to know regardless. I may turn my attention and research to an SC Aquariums 90 - 36x24x24

That would be a great tank. Easier to light in my opinion too since I'm limited to 24" length lights with my 30x30. Being heavy SPS, I'd honestly rather have 36x24 to light so I could 100% coverage.

HairyGary · Oct 16, 2017

Yeah. I am currently running IM 20 with heavy SPS so just upgrading in size to add more wrasses. Thinking about the new AquaticLife Hybrid system and 36" unit would work. Plus the stand is 31" tall. I'd prefer 36" height but better than 26 or whatever the cube stand is.

Velcro · Oct 16, 2017

HairyGary said:
Yeah. I am currently running IM 20 with heavy SPS so just upgrading in size to add more wrasses. Thinking about the new AquaticLife Hybrid system and 36" unit would work. Plus the stand is 31" tall. I'd prefer 36" height but better than 26 or whatever the cube stand is.

Yea I would be allllll over that aquatic life fixture if I had a 24" wide tank. Then I'd probably put two kessil 360we's or a ap700 on that and be golden!

dubzee · Oct 24, 2017

could i ask what your lighting schedule is ive got 2 of the 5012s and a heavily sps domiated tank ive just changed from 10x80watt t5s and like the colour that you r lights give out cheers ian

Velcro · Oct 24, 2017

dubzee said:
could i ask what your lighting schedule is ive got 2 of the 5012s and a heavily sps domiated tank ive just changed from 10x80watt t5s and like the colour that you r lights give out cheers ian

I run 7 hours of red: 20% green: 20% royal blue/blue/violet: 100% white: 70%

Outside of that 7 hours is ramping of mostly blues.

drawman · Oct 24, 2017

Tank looks great Velcro. I trust the UV sterilizer is still knocking back the dinos?

Velcro · Oct 24, 2017

drawman said:
Tank looks great Velcro. I trust the UV sterilizer is still knocking back the dinos?

I took the UV off about three weeks ago. I had to leave town for work for a week and quite frankly don’t trust a jebao UV when I’m not home :) I actually had about a week of Dino’s show up (very light infestation) a few days before taking the uv off, but also noticed that my phosphates were 0 ppb on the Hanna. Dosed phosphates up to 0.05 and the Dino’s eventually went away even without the UV.

Velcro · Nov 12, 2017

Quick cell phone shots of the lighting change I did over the week. I love(d) the photon v2’s but I’ve been wanting to try t5/kessil for a while now. I really like how it turned out. I’m running 4x blue+, 2x actinic, 2x reefbreeder actinic bars and 2x kessil a360we. 200 par at the sandbed and 350 par in the middle of the tank.

I’m going to let things settle in for a month or so then thinking about adding two more t5 GE 6500k and running them like 4 hours a day to see if I notice any difference in growth.

drawman · Nov 12, 2017

Nice work!

Velcro · Nov 24, 2017

Some updated shots of coral. They are really liking this lighting.

drawman · Nov 25, 2017

Very nice Velcro!

WDKegge · Nov 25, 2017

Some serious lighting there. Looks great!

DSC reef · Nov 25, 2017

Stunning tank! The health, color and growth of your corals is amazing.

Velcro · Nov 28, 2017

Added the last two t5 to my setup. I wanted 250 par on the bottom of the tank, but didn’t want to ditch my two actinics. Currently running 4x blue plus, 2x actinic, 1x coral plus and 1x 6500k. I’ll probably switch the 6500k for another coral plus.

This is 350-375 par at the middle of the tank and 250 par at the bottom.

d_adler · Dec 24, 2017

love this build! updates?

Velcro · Dec 24, 2017

d_adler said:
love this build! updates?

Thanks! I’ll get a good update going in a day or so. Going to need to do some changes in my dosing since alk demand has reached 6 liters of saturated kalkwasser a day. Going to be adding a calcium reactor most likely.

Velcro · Jan 28, 2018

Alright, so this tank will be coming down in about two months. The microbubbles are making me a bit nervous. I started a lagoon/frag system a month ago and am getting it to a healthy spot before I transfer live stock of the next 2-3 months. I do have some photos to show as things are doing better than ever:

First, an acquisition I just made today at a frag swap from Jason himself: