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Thanks for stopping by and looking! Actually I just added a diamond goby and took another stab at a CCB today! I knew I had to add something to work that sand. I have been watching the goby for sometime (I know they are messy too). I was keeping the additions quite until I seen how they do for a few days.Wow. Just went through the thread. I’ve never been a fan of bow front/curved tanks but you might be changing my mind
A couple random things that I’ve no idea if you’ve addressed already.
Sand sifting fish - I had a sleeper gold head goby in my 210. That guy did an amazing job of keeping my sandbed clean, only problem was that the bottom 2-3” of everything was always covered in sand lol.
Tank placement - it’s possible to move the tank a few inches... it’s a gigantic pain in the bottom bit but doable. I had this same issue with the 210 and it was a big enough problem that I ended up moving it. The way we did it was “borrow” 5 large trash cans from Home Depot.. wash them out and drain all but 2” of water from the tank. Then have a few people lift up the stand about 1mm and move it forward about a half an inch. Repeat the process on each side until the tank is off the wall. Then pump the water from the trash cans back into the tank. Only things are.. my tank was sitting on a very very overbuilt diy stand. Made it a lot easier to handle after I took all the side panels off. And I had flexible tubing on all the plumbing with quite a bit of slack so it didn’t affect the plumbing at all. Not sure if this is something that would work for you but thought it would be worth sharing. (Also, one of my friends that was helping is a structural engineer and spent about a week telling me of all the risks to the structure of the tank with doing something like this. It’s not a great idea. But in dire situations...)
And as far as lights.. what about adding another 52hd to each mounting arm? Have two of them on each side, would certainly open up more options for coral placement.
That opens up more options for sure! I'm reading up on them now. Thanks Fudsey!
Thank you for the compliment and stopping by! I'm really enjoying this build, this is one of the easiest tanks I have maintained so far.
Thanks Flipper's!
Duh. I meant 26's. However... 52's should have more coverage than the radion pro's. plus, if you go that route, it adds another thing to program separately from the lights you already have.
I done a par test and was quite pleased with the depth performance of these lights in a tank this deep but the spread was a little disappointing It would improve greatly "if" I raised the lights above the hood but then there are those annoying braces. I am trying to avoid light bleed since that is our projector room. I do believe the 52's would probably give better coverage in the center due to the extra length of the fixture and 2 more pucks, but that's just my theory. Edit: .that is keeping the light s at the same mounting points that the 26s are using now and putting them at an angle following the curve of the tank.
I was wondering if small kessils would fill it in.I have this same tank as well. The back corners can be tricky. I wanted corals to grow in all parts of the tank. So I went with heavy Kessil with 2-AP700 on the large center openings in the middle. Then 2-360s In each of the smaller openings on the sides. I finished up by adding a 48” 2 bulb t5 for the back of the tank. I am getting great growth on both corners with this light. Here are a couple pics of my sides. Putting a A360 in each of the smaller openings made all the difference in the world it was shaded badly before I did that.
