Hello from NJ

kdino1 · Sep 29, 2014

Hey everyone, just wanted to stop by and introduce myself to the R2R community. ive been doing saltwarer nano and pico reefs from about 5 years now. Started off with a 5 gallon, went through a copious amounts of different tanks and now im playing with a 27 gallon cube here in my office.

hardware :
2 mp10's one @ 100% reef crest and one at 25% full on.
Aquatic life mini skimmer
136 watt full spectrum (chinese) LED fixture 100% blue, 75% whites sitting 16" off the top of the tank

Livestock:
2 Occ. Clowns
1 Pygmy yellow angel
Generous CUC
frogspawn
Hammer coral
Tons of Z's and P's
11 or so different SPS
2 mushrooms
and a yuma mushroom

ok on to what you realy came here to see, all the pics. enjoy!

kdino1 · Sep 29, 2014

more pics

kdino1 · Sep 29, 2014

kdino1 · Sep 29, 2014

as you can see things are starting to grown in a little bit more. ill have some updated pics coming shortly.

Rob&Gab · Sep 29, 2014

Hi from Whitestone queens NEWYORK!

Glad you have you on board.

Things look great for ya so far.! Nice cube you got!

Are those 3 PAR38's?

If so how do you like them ? The color and growth good on your coral?

Reefing Madness · Sep 29, 2014

kdino1 · Sep 29, 2014

Rob&Gab said:
Hi from Whitestone queens NEWYORK!

Glad you have you on board.

Things look great for ya so far.! Nice cube you got!

Are those 3 PAR38's?

If so how do you like them ? The color and growth good on your coral?

yes those are 3 par38's. i love them. i have had great growth and coloration over the years. ive had them ever since nano customs introduced them back in 2010/2011 so they have got quite a few hours on them and still going strong. I have however since upgraded to a more powerful full spectrum LED fixture. I picked up the non progromable version of this http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JJ29MY0/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and i am loving it so far. i like that i can dial in the color temp that i want. I like a lot of blue. i can attest that the growth, on my SPS at least, has exploded with the changeover to this light. looking forward to seeing how things progress.

kdino1 · Sep 29, 2014

Reefing Madness said:

Thanks! glad to be here

bond300 · Sep 29, 2014

Welcome! Nice looking tank!! Love the clowns!!

revhtree · Sep 29, 2014

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Pimentinha1987 · Sep 30, 2014

Welcome from Belleville, NJ

Good luck with everything!

kschweer · Sep 30, 2014

Welcome! Lots of nj guys on here. I'm down south by atlantic city. Tank looks great!

kdino1 · Sep 30, 2014

kschweer said:
Welcome! Lots of nj guys on here. I'm down south by atlantic city. Tank looks great!

thank! ohh nice to hear there are some "locals" in this community. im in the middle, in monmouth county near belmar/freehold/jackson if your familiar

bairdimusprime · Sep 30, 2014

Welcome from Union Beach NJ!!! nice looking tank!!

kschweer · Sep 30, 2014

kdino1 said:
thank! ohh nice to hear there are some "locals" in this community. im in the middle, in monmouth county near belmar/freehold/jackson if your familiar

Nice. I grew up in jackson. My parents and brother still live there and the rest of my family is in freehold. Check out newjerseryreefers.org lots of local reefers there as well.

jgraz · Sep 30, 2014

Welcome aboard. There are a bunch of Jackson area guys in the hobby. Like Kschweer mentioned check out njrc as well

kdino1 · Sep 30, 2014

kschweer said:
Nice. I grew up in jackson. My parents and brother still live there and the rest of my family is in freehold. Check out newjerseryreefers.org lots of local reefers there as well.