Beware the Shallows! jedimasterben's 80g shallow reef!

jedimasterben · May 10, 2012

Hey everybody! Finally starting to pull over all the information from my threads at Nano-reef.

What I'm going for is a bommie-style reef. One big rock in the center that has SPS on it, and then smaller rocks around the rest of the tank that have zoas, acans, my anemones (for now, some of those will be moved to another tank soon), and some LPS will be scattered around, along with the clam.

Display tank:

48"x24"x16" Deep Blue Pro 80g rimless frag tank w/ corner overflow

Stand:

Custom built 60"x32"x40"

Sump:

20g long 24"x12"x16"
Will be a slow-flow fuge with chaeto & a pod farm
~265GPH return pump (after head of lifting four feet to the DT)

Skimmer:

ebay SC-65 (these things rock!)

Lighting:

Custom LED, provided by Steve's LEDs
14x 5000k neutralwhite Philips Luxeon Rebel ES @1000ma
21x 440-450nm royal blue Philips Luxeon Rebel ES @1000ma
16x 420nm true violet @700ma
6x 660nm deep red Luxeon Rebel ES @700ma
6x 490-505nm cyan Luxeon Rebel ES @1000ma
7x 475nm cool blue @ 700ma
Drivers are Steve's LEDs custom drivers
Controller will be Reef Angel, custom Arduino programming with full sunrise/sunset, cloud cover, and lightning storms
custom aluminum heatsinks from Heatsink USA
Will be hung 16-20" above the water line

Flow:

3x MP10wES

Substrate:

~1" black CaribSea Tahitian Moon Sand

Fish:

True Percula clownfish
Firefish
Mandarin dragonet
School of blue/green chromis

Possible additions:

Bartlett's Anthias
Carpenter's flasher wrasse
Whitetail bristletooth tang

Inverts:

Peppermint shrimp
Blood fire shrimp
blue legged hermit crabs
Pom-pom crabs
Small emerald crab hitchhiker
Derasa clam (~4")
More dwarf cerith, cerith, nassarius, turbo, and nerite snails than I care to count!

Anemones

Sebae anemone (8")
Rose bubble tip anemone (2x 3")
Several Mini-maxi carpet anemones (~3")
Caribbean mini carpet anemone
Green bubble tip anemone (8")

Corals
LPS

Duncan
Short tentacle plate
Frogspawn
Hammer
Various acans
Favia
Blastomussa
Vivid riddler chalice
Pink goniapora
Green alveopora

SPS

Various montiporas (encrusting, digitatas, etc)
Various birdsnest (ORA ponape, green, purple)
Various stylophora
Various acropora

Softies

Various zoas
Pulsing zenia
Various palys

Things to do:
Tank will be picked up tomorrow (5/11/12)
Stand is almost finished; just need to take the doors off, paint the crap out of everything (stand is primed right now), attach the glass tile to the doors, get it to my house (built at my parents' house), and put the doors back on
Start mixing water
Start rinsing sand
Get sump set up, baffles siliconed into place, and plumbed
Make mounting system and "canopy" for lights, and place on a rail system for easy movement.
Start moving stuff over!

Pictures of some stuff
Stand:

door handles

Primer is seafoam green. :shocked:

My final cluster design for the LEDs:

---RB-CB-RB---
--V-NW-NW-V--
----C-RB-DR---

My violets look like garbage after being removed from heatsinks twice now and having the thermal adhesive Dremel'd off of them, but **** do they still work great.

Drivers: Double, Single, Triple

Cyan

Deep red

Royal blue

Tried to catch some of the hint of purple that these things throw out, but my phone just won't. I don't think that the purple is overbearing or even bad - I love it, personally.

That's all I can remember for now. Enjoy!

BarbH · May 11, 2012

Looks like you are off to a great start, look foward to following the progress of your tank.

uall8up · May 11, 2012

WOW...great stuff!!! Can't wait to see this bad boy up and running!!!

AsphaltPays · May 11, 2012

Great start..looking forward to seeing your LEDs finished

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Reef Breeders · May 11, 2012

Cool, looks like a nice build

jedimasterben · May 16, 2012

Ok, LEDs are all together!

They are BRIGHT and look amazing over my 55g (a little dark on the corners, but the layout was not designed for being hung so low, just temporary). The ratio of 2:3:1:1:1:2 of NW:RB:CB:C

R:V is PERFECT for a 12-14K look without any dimming. Colors are outstanding, significantly better than my old Bridgelux Aquastyle array. The cool blue I got from LEDgroupbuy is actually pretty close in color to the Aquastyle BL royal blues.... hmmm.

Went to pick up the tank on last Friday, even though I don't have the stand finished still (it keeps raining, so I'm not always able to work on it after work), but when I got to the LFS, they had gotten the rimmed tank instead of rimless, so they had to order another one. The new one should have gotten there yesterday, but I won't be heading that way until Friday, it's a 45 minute drive to get there. I will try and get the stand done tonight (finishing painting and removing the doors to add the tile and trim) so that we can get it to my house ASAP. This needs to happen soon! I can't wait!

revsgirl · May 16, 2012

You're chompin' at the bit, I'm sure. Can't wait to see how it all comes together!!

revhtree · May 16, 2012

I am excited to see this on come together! Keep us updated!

will2525 · May 16, 2012

wow, gonna follow this along since im in the process of tearing down my 210 and doing the exact same tank with diy led's also.

jedimasterben · May 16, 2012

revsgirl said:
You're chompin' at the bit, I'm sure. Can't wait to see how it all comes together!!

The bit is long gone, chomped through it a long time ago!

revhtree said:
I am excited to see this on come together! Keep us updated!

Definitely.

will2525 said:
wow, gonna follow this along since im in the process of tearing down my 210 and doing the exact same tank with diy led's also.

Cool! Let me know if you need any help with the LEDs. Luxeon Rebels are the best!

Forgot to mention that I got a new pretty at the FMAS frag show this past weekend.

It may not be as gorgeous as my last long tentacle plate, but I think think she's very pretty.

bige · May 16, 2012

Very nice. Can't wait to see those lights in action.

larryl · May 16, 2012

Looking good!

Chameleon · Jul 12, 2012

Any updates? I want to see it over a tank.

jedimasterben · Jul 12, 2012

I've got a TON to add to this. Tank is up and running (fishless, ich infestation, fish are in QT until September 1st), got a bunch of new corals, I burned out a few LEDs accidentally (bridged connections for the win!), lost some fishies, got some new ones, and had one jump HOURS before I left for vacation on Monday.

I will return home on Monday of next week (and hopefully making a trip to Worldwide Corals in Orlando on my way back!!!), and I will try to move some of the info over to here. Can't leave you guys (and gals

) all hanging.

Chameleon · Jul 13, 2012

Thanks mate looking forward to seeing some updated pics. Sorry to hear about fish tragedies. Other than bunt bulbs how are you liking them luxeons? I plan to use them for my next DIY build.

jedimasterben · Jul 13, 2012

Chameleon said:
Thanks mate looking forward to seeing some updated pics. Sorry to hear about fish tragedies. Other than bunt bulbs how are you liking them luxeons? I plan to use them for my next DIY build.

More output than Cree, better spectrum, cheaper, and can handle more heat. I love them.

I had Steve order a bunch of 3up stars, so he's making a LOT of 3ups - some that have 1 NW and 2 RB, and some that have 1 deep red, 1 cool blue, and 1 cyan. Will be much better than the competition.

jedimasterben · Oct 21, 2012

This thread needs a major update. Tank is up, livestock is in and growing, I've lost a lot, gained a lot, changed the lighting, changed the sump, all kinds of good stuff!

In the meantime, I'll leave you with this:

Chameleon · Oct 22, 2012

what did you change the lighting too? was the old one too bright?

jedimasterben · Oct 22, 2012

Chameleon said:
what did you change the lighting too? was the old one too bright?

Nah, I just changed everything over to using nearly all Luxeon Rebels (instead of a mix of Bridgelux and Luxeon) with only the violet being SemiLED. I also switched them all to 3up stars. Color is flippin' amazing, but I'm gonna throw on another 8x RB Luxeons so I can get a higher color temperature, right now it's about 14K at 100% on all channels. I'll try and post my pics soon.