WD's 150g SPS Peninsula

WDKegge · May 11, 2021

Hung's rainbow is really starting to take off.

X-37B · May 11, 2021

Love the scape!
What skimmer did you end up getting?

WDKegge · May 13, 2021

Matt V Rainbow Envy added!

Janci · May 14, 2021

Nice.
Why do corals end up to be named Rainbow lately?

WDKegge · May 14, 2021

Added a 3rd orphek and put my gyre 350 on the end of the tank.

I'm not a fan of having a pump on the end, but I was noticing lots of the sps on the end of the tank not having a whole lot of polyp movement.

WDKegge · May 16, 2021

Good friend came and dropped off some more sps, made a few more diy frag trees to accommodate them! Tank is really coming along.

Janci · May 18, 2021

Looking great.
Any reason for the extra Orphek? Did the tank lack light?
I love your frag tree solution.

WDKegge · May 18, 2021

Janci said:
Looking great.
Any reason for the extra Orphek? Did the tank lack light?
I love your frag tree solution.

I always had planned to add a 3rd fixture once corals grew out, with all the new additions and many of them only having space on the sides of the tank where I knew par was lacking for sps.

WDKegge · May 19, 2021

So I figured throwing on a 3rd light would cause some slowdown in alk consumption as the sps adjusted to the higher par, turns out I was wrong and my alk is dropping like crazy, had to bump up my reactor output almost 8ml to keep up!

Janci · May 20, 2021

Good to hear. We'll see soon if that also resulted in new colonies, forming in the tank.

I assume you like the Orpheks. Do you use a custom light setting?
I have a 40"x32"x21" tank for which I slowly am searching some missing equipment which was sold when I shut down my previous tank.
One of it is lights and I have been doubting which direction to go.
I doubt between Orpheks, ATI Straton and Kessils.

How do you compare these Atlantics with the Radions you had before?
TIA.

WDKegge · May 20, 2021

Janci said:
Good to hear. We'll see soon if that also resulted in new colonies, forming in the tank.

I assume you like the Orpheks. Do you use a custom light setting?
I have a 40"x32"x21" tank for which I slowly am searching some missing equipment which was sold when I shut down my previous tank.
One of it is lights and I have been doubting which direction to go.
I doubt between Orpheks, ATI Straton and Kessils.

How do you compare these Atlantics with the Radions you had before?
TIA.

I do like the lights, I wouldn't say it's very custom, lights ramp up over an hour, stay at the same level for 8 hours, then ramp back down over an hour, very "on/off" in terms of programming.

I went with the orpheks after seeing several local tanks with wall to wall amazing sps, I figure it can be done with every light on the market now, so I think it comes down to personal choice.

I can't really compare them with the radions I had before, the were on the tank when it was still young.

The app to program them has to be the absolute worst part, I barely give it a 1 out of 10 with how **** it is. But once programmed they are solid for sure.

WDKegge · May 20, 2021

Quick shot looking down the tank, starting to see that wall of acropora I had in mind when I started this tank.

WDKegge · May 21, 2021

Pearl berry was looking hot last night.

WDKegge · May 27, 2021

Thought this was neat, you can see exactly when I added the additional light by the growth on my pc rainbow which is in the corner of the tank, started reaching other directions instead of towards the center of the tank.