Hello R2R, I usually hang out on nano-reef.com but I've recently thought of keeping a thread updated on here as well, as I find the R2R community very pleasant and helpful.
Equipment:
- JBJ RL-10 AIO Cube
- Cobalt Aquatics 75W Neo-therm
- AI Prime16 HD
- AI Nero 3
- Sicce Syncra 0.5 return pump
- Overflow chamber has a DIY media rack running filter floss and activated carbon
- 2nd chamber is filled with chaeto, which has an IM 9W Chaetomax fuge light
This tank is not yet a month old, but soon. Everything has been smooth sailing so far, except for a small hiccup a few days ago that ticked off most of the coral. I rented a PAR meter because I was curious, and it turned out I was blasting everything with a lot of light. Some coral didn't seem to mind the extra light, I think because they came from high-light environments already. However, I'm not entirely sure how accurate the readings I was getting are, since the meter I received from BRS was pretty much dead on battery life. It only stays on for about 15 seconds, and sometimes the readings fluctuated wildly even when I held the wand still. So I opened a support ticket with them and I'll be sending this one back and they're going to send me out another one to use.
Anyways, I was originally running all blue/UV channels at 50%, red and green at 20%, and then CW at 80%, which gave the tank a 14k look, which is what I prefer. I believe that was too much light to start off with, so now I have everything running at 30%, except red and green channels at 10%. This new light level seems to be doing well at the moment, but a couple of my SPS pieces are definitely unhappy, as I'm just not getting the same polyp extension I was with the previous light settings.
Here are some photos:
Some things have changed since those photos and I'll be updating with new ones soon. Thanks for looking!
Equipment:
- JBJ RL-10 AIO Cube
- Cobalt Aquatics 75W Neo-therm
- AI Prime16 HD
- AI Nero 3
- Sicce Syncra 0.5 return pump
- Overflow chamber has a DIY media rack running filter floss and activated carbon
- 2nd chamber is filled with chaeto, which has an IM 9W Chaetomax fuge light
This tank is not yet a month old, but soon. Everything has been smooth sailing so far, except for a small hiccup a few days ago that ticked off most of the coral. I rented a PAR meter because I was curious, and it turned out I was blasting everything with a lot of light. Some coral didn't seem to mind the extra light, I think because they came from high-light environments already. However, I'm not entirely sure how accurate the readings I was getting are, since the meter I received from BRS was pretty much dead on battery life. It only stays on for about 15 seconds, and sometimes the readings fluctuated wildly even when I held the wand still. So I opened a support ticket with them and I'll be sending this one back and they're going to send me out another one to use.
Anyways, I was originally running all blue/UV channels at 50%, red and green at 20%, and then CW at 80%, which gave the tank a 14k look, which is what I prefer. I believe that was too much light to start off with, so now I have everything running at 30%, except red and green channels at 10%. This new light level seems to be doing well at the moment, but a couple of my SPS pieces are definitely unhappy, as I'm just not getting the same polyp extension I was with the previous light settings.
Here are some photos:
Some things have changed since those photos and I'll be updating with new ones soon. Thanks for looking!