BPB's Humble SPS Dominant 90 Gallon

blstravler · Feb 22, 2021

Excited to see your next tank! Was hoping you weren’t effected by the power outages too badly.

Bpb · Feb 22, 2021

No meaningful outages for me. Not everyone was so lucky. My house shares a grid with an essential business though so no outages for us.

Bpb · Mar 7, 2021

Need some opinions from some of you successful sps people. Going to be running a pair of reef breeders photon v2+ units as I’ve mentioned. But....considering adding a pair of the Orphek blue+ bars to the mix as well.

Budget is a bit of a concern and my apex is also about 10 years old now. Can’t imagine it’ll last a lot longer. I don’t do a TON of advanced programming currently but considering maybe trying a little harder with stability in the future and a new apex would help with that.

Cost between the two upgrades would be about the same or at least close enough. Would I really benefit that much from all the additional wavelengths (410 nm, 460 nm, 480 nm) covered by the Orphek bars? Or would you expect it to be negligible? Seems like a good idea but if the $700 spent on those isn’t going to make any appreciable difference in growth I just don’t see the point.

Bpb · Apr 12, 2021

So this concludes the thread. Had a lot of ups and downs. Mostly ups!

Tank was drained and removed. My 15 year old clarkii clown and pajama cardinal as well as their only slightly younger tank mates are being babysat in an otherwise empty system by a local until the next chapter.

Life has been hectic. I don’t know that I’ll ever build a house again. We are all moved in. I’m happy it was done but it was dominated by negative moments rather than positive or exciting. Could just be my nature, could be our builder we chose...probably a little of both. At any rate. Next chapter in my reef hobby coming soon.

Bpb · May 8, 2021

To anyone who’s followed this thread over the years, cmon over to the new place!

Build Thread - BPB’s 150 gallon

In what has to be the longest wait for a tank setup in hobby history (or so it seems), I have criminally under-documented the preparation and setup of this 150 gallon sps tank. I have a tendency to get way too wordy, so I’ll attempt to keep my thoughts brief as to not make this single post one...

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