Ashburn's 187g endgame II

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So my water change station leaked, time to upgrade the setup.

Should I ?

 

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I messed up on the holes that was drilled for uniseal, had to improvise with silicone and resin

 

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Par meter update with new lights
zoa frag, 2 orphek blue OR 90, 1 ap700

sps frag, 3 orphek blue OR 90, 2 orphek day OR 90

1 Orphek Atlantik V4 (Gen 2) 80% power, 2 Orphek day OR 120, 1 Orphek blue OR 120

all light bars are at 100% since it has no dim feature.

This is the par under AP700 from last year, the tank was using dual ap700 at 100% full power

as you can see atlantik v4 has a much better light pentration for deep tanks like mine ( 30" )
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1 year growth

 

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I took out jebao 150 gyre pump and replaced it with two scp-180 ( rated for 6700g-9600g ) at full power on both side, it’s moving my water like crazy, and I added another scp-120 in the middle to eliminate any dead spot.

Here’s my backyard ro waste container for backyard watering and other tanks.
As you can see I started an outdoor macro algae grow tank, hopefully they would survive the temperature swing during day and night.

 

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Instead of filter socks, I have this 1” thick mesh pad for water that comes out of my tanks, so to collect large particles. I once had a nem landed on the pad. Below the pad is the skimmer intake.

 

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My rodi waste also goes to fill my outdoor pond, filled by using float valve. Did diy filter with salt bucket and left over plumbing. UV is on the way. Hopefully water will clear up soon.

 

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Alk finally stabilized at 8.3 after few months of fine tuning

Alk: 8.3
CA: 475
MG: 1281

Some frag tank photos

 

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Now that I have a CBB that just eliminated all my pest in my tank, I feed it aiptasia off some of my frag tricks. But most are gone too... now I need to set up a small stress free tank just to grow aiptasia, maybe I will just use that outdoor plant tank in my backyard

 

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Rommel's Rainbow acro

 

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water change made with the new bigger brute, 35g water change is now one stop instead of mixing twice in the old brute.

 

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Cb bling bling

 

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My tank a year ago



Today

 

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New corals!

 

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Another blow, I’m 5 for 5 with red dragon. This time I tired it in low light low flow and high flow with two frags, still bleached. I’m done with this coral.

Upgraded Apex EL to the full Apex, took a few tries to get it right. If i have to do it again, I could do it in less than a minute.

Next up, swapping out all probes with new one ( calibrate ) and add additonal temp probe for ambient temp, additional ph probe for CarX

I replace the main Apex brain, and I made screenshot of each power port setting i had and copied over the old settings. I made the mistake by resetting the brain without connecting all the probes and the powerbar.

 

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Flaming Lotus Goniopora
LC Alpha Rays Goniopora
LC Romeo Goniopora
LC Ectoplasm Goniopora
LC Powerpuff Goniopora
TCK Rainbow Flame Goniopora
TCK Flamethrower Goniopora
Fire red Goniopora
Cat eyes Goniopora
Strawberry field Goniopora
Rainbow looney Goniopora
JF Sunset Stylo
JF Agent 420 Cyphastrea

 

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When you can’t afford the dragon souls? You get the cheap imitators

 

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Salt 1.025
Ph 8.15
temp 75-77
Alk 8.28
CA 446
MG 1323


Hard plumbed PVC for water change from SW brute to the tank, so I no longer need to pull out the flex tube and make a mess

 

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Finally something came in mail that isn’t dead.