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Dorado
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Sorry about being so unresponsive, I have been very absent from the forums lately and the hobby for that matter. The tank is doing really well but it has been on autopilot which I think has made me loose a little bit of interest in it. I loved getting it to this point with all of the tinkering and projects but I think I'm a bored now that my tank is pretty balanced and I don't have much room for more coral.
Thank you. For a long time, I tried really hard to keep everything happy and would constantly trim to keep everything alive and well. I've been a more hands off lately, letting colonies do their own thing. Unfortunately, I've lost several colonies mainly due to shadowing, but I'm liking the more natural look of the larger colonies. I just had way too many frags in a small space to keep long term. Surprisingly coral warfare isn't a huge problem in my tank and things don't seem to sting and kill each other, but instead just slowly grow over each other.
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Thanks! I've all but gotten rid of my softies. I had three large rocks on the sand that were covered in zoas and ricordea. They got out of hand and started spreading and free floating so i decided to get rid of them to make more room for LPS on the sand. I'm focused on gonis, acans and blastos
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Sorry to leave you hangin for so long. Flow is the major component in my tank that has become a challenge as of late. I started off with an MP40 on the back wall on one side of the overflow and a vertical gyre on the other side. Overtime as my SPS has grown I have slowly added 4 Tunze 6095 nanostreams to each corner pointing inward. Even with everything at 100%, I'm starting to get dead spots again and I'm looking into a 7th powerhead. I like the power of the MP40, but even with the directional adapter, I just can't get it pointed where I'd like. I'm considering trying an octo pulse or maybe just another nanostream. I've also toyed with the idea of creating a closed loop
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interesting about flow, I only have 2 Neptune WAV pumps on back wall. 1 on either side of overflow. I am finding it difficult to fine tune it. Even when I have it at like 5% i find that it is too much blowing across to the front of the tank and creating back flow and the corals at the front of my tank seem to be getting over blown, just can't get that nice sway of back and forth so to speak.
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Having power heads in all corners pointing towards the center on a random schedule has worked the best for me. It keeps the turbulence in the center and not on the sand and at the glass.
A picture of the front nanostream pointing towards center
Just a quick FTS
Timrpn
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Having power heads in all corners pointing towards the center on a random schedule has worked the best for me. It keeps the turbulence in the center and not on the sand and at the glass.
A picture of the front nanostream pointing towards center
Just a quick FTS
Thank you,
I may have to try and move mine both to the rear and point towards the center which would be the back of the rock work, it may help.
Yanir34
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Your tank looks amazing !!!
can you give some details about:
Lights- what is your bulbs combination?
what about the LED's ?
what is the schedule for your lights ?
Calcium reactor and Kalkwasser: what type of media are you using ?
What about refugium? do still run it ?
can you give some details about:
Lights- what is your bulbs combination?
what about the LED's ?
what is the schedule for your lights ?
Calcium reactor and Kalkwasser: what type of media are you using ?
What about refugium? do still run it ?
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Dorado
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Thanks Yanir
The bulb combination from front to back:
Actinic on-11:00/off-9:00
Blue plus on-12:00/off-8:00
Purple plus on-10:00/off-10:00
Coral plus on-12:00/off-8:00
Blue pluson-12:00/off-8:00
Blue plug on-12:00/off-8:00
Coral plus on-12:00/off-8:00
Purple plus on-10:00/off-10:00
Blue plus on-12:00/off-8:00
Actinic on-11:00/off-9:00
Then I have an aquablue special on both sides. 11:30 to 8:00
I have 3 Orphek OR3 60 bars. The two on the sides are blue plus’ and the one in the front is a daylight 2:00-8:30
I use caribsea ARM, I know a lot of people don’t like it but it’s been working well for me. The kalk that I use is bulk reef supply brand.
Yep, still running the refugium on a reverse schedule 8pm - 10am. I cut it back to softball size every two weeks when it fills the refugium wall to wall
Let me know if you have any other questions, happy to answer
Yanir34
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Thank you for that info !
so ,I counted 12 T5 bulbs ?
2 of them are aquablue special , 2 coral plus, and the rest is blue/actinic/purple ?
I forgot to ask you how high did you hang this lights setup above water surface ?
in my tank I have only T5 bulbs , it's ATI power module 10×54w .no LED's.
bulbs :
5 blue plus
1 KZ coral light (full spectrum)
2 coral plus
1 actinic
1 purple plus.
I hang the fixture 15 cm above water surface.
by the way , my current setup was inspired from your old tank , back in 2007 ...you won in TOTM in zeovit forum. if you remember, you installed 7 (!!!) aquablue special bulbs, and 3 blue plus .
I'm noticing that you moved to the blue side spectrum, in your current setup .
reef’r
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Hey @Dorado coming back to your thread with some more questions lol what are those single bulb t5 fixtures you have? I’m tossing around the idea of ditching the radion I have in the middle of my 4 bulb aquatic life fixture in order to add 2-3 more t5 in its place and I’m thinking those single fixtures are the answer. Thanks!
