gcarroll's 260g SPS reef
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I really couldn’t find a good reason to do it. The freshwater tank works great gravity fed as I’m not adding freshwater to the display only the sump. Can you think of a problem with filling the tank directly from the RODI?
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Reefcowboy
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Excited to see progress greg! Keep us posted my man
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Filling the tank directly from the ATO? the problem is sediment creep
GBRsouth
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Only problem with that, is tank emergencies only happen when you don’t have saltwater made up. And you’ll be waiting for your rodi to fill it so slowly while you look at your full freshwater barrel thinking “if only I had of”!
Love the aquascape!
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Only problem with that, is tank emergencies only happen when you don’t have saltwater made up. And you’ll be waiting for your rodi to fill it so slowly while you look at your full freshwater barrel thinking “if only I had of”!
Love the aquascape!
I get what you are saying but in the event of an emergency, I can alway grab a pump and a hose, drop it in the fresh tank and pump it to the salt. Or even drop a tunze in that freshwater tank and mix it there. There are no rules when we are talking emergencies!
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Done any par mapping with that light arrangement? I’ve never seen anyone run 4 pucks that close together.
looking good by the way.
looking good by the way.
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Looking frigg’n AWESOME!! Hard to tell in the purple light...did you go with sand?
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I’m not one for doing things like everyone else. Being a former metal halide guy, I wanted to emulate 3 large metal Halide reflectors. I think the PAR numbers are pretty incredible and very even across the entire tank.
This is the test I did to see what it was capable of. This it the lights at 100% AB+. I am currently running them at 50%.
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No sand. The bottom is grey PVC so the camera is picking up the blue from the lights.
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Yes Todd, my 25g was started with dry rock about 2 years ago. The rock in this tank already has a good seeding of coraline algae since I added some from a friends tank 2 months ago.
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Quite a collection of sticks you have there Greg!
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The tank is coming along nicely.
Everything Aquatics
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Amazing tankLittle update
Abhishek
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what is this BLUE garbage !!!! I say you send us all those ugly looking sticks before thanksgiving
BTW did you start zeovit ?
