Reef Diaries: 56G Reef Savvy

ReeferEric · Sep 16, 2014

Joshporksandwich got me fired up again. Working on a time lapse video!

ReeferEric · Sep 16, 2014

Finished! Got some more work to do, video is a little choppy and moves too quick.

[video=youtube_share;gX45v4NI9H8]http://youtu.be/gX45v4NI9H8?list=UUIFZaP03YsEM7LUEM_pPgXg[/video]

stunreefer · Sep 16, 2014

ReeferEric said:
It's 4ft, knock on wood but I've been running them like that for a while now. I've read over and over that they need to be cooled but they seem fine to me. No issues yet but now that you mentioned it, I had an ATI Coral Plus bulb go out on me a while back.

There's nothing wrong with running them passively cooled, it just shortens life span if they run hot. Since your's are not in a fixture I wouldn't expect excessive heat, but you could mount another one of those black fans above existing one and point it right at the bulbs for extreme cooling.

Great corals!

ReeferEric · Sep 16, 2014

stunreefer said:
There's nothing wrong with running them passively cooled, it just shortens life span if they run hot. Since your's are not in a fixture I wouldn't expect excessive heat, but you could mount another one of those black fans above existing one and point it right at the bulbs for extreme cooling.

Great corals!

That's actually on my list of things to do. The ballast for the T5s also get hot so they will be cooled via fan as well as the bulbs. Just need to find an efficient way to do it and make it look nice.

ReeferEric · Sep 19, 2014

Another time lapse video

[video=youtube_share;rsAbmjeRUGY]http://youtu.be/rsAbmjeRUGY[/video]

gettaReef · Sep 20, 2014

Very cool time lapse videos. Are making those very difficult or extra time consuming? Or is there more like a learning curve, and once you got it down, it goes pretty quickly? Very very cool

ReeferEric · Sep 20, 2014

gettaReef said:
Very cool time lapse videos. Are making those very difficult or extra time consuming? Or is there more like a learning curve, and once you got it down, it goes pretty quickly? Very very cool

It does take time. Not too difficult if you have programs like lightroom and photoshop.

ReeferEric · Sep 26, 2014

Time to wake this thread up with some new pictures, or a few!

kevantheman35 · Sep 26, 2014

Nice!!

joshporksandwich · Sep 26, 2014

Awwww! What tiny little frags!

ReeferEric · Sep 27, 2014

kevantheman35 said:
Nice!!

Thanks

joshporksandwic said:
Awwww! What tiny little frags!

I know, they are little and cute right?

maazreef · Sep 27, 2014

Wow I sat and read the entire thread. I love the auto top off for the main tank, I'm going to be using your idea. Great work on the frag tank too.

ReeferEric · Sep 27, 2014

maazreef said:
Wow I sat and read the entire thread. I love the auto top off for the main tank, I'm going to be using your idea. Great work on the frag tank too.

Thanks! It's been a whole since I've updated on the system. In the near future I'll go into more detail. Wires have been cleaned up, bigger ATO container, it's just nuts now. LOL

skinz78 · Sep 28, 2014

Nice shots!

joshporksandwich · Sep 28, 2014

skinz78 said:
Nice shots!

How come you don't say that about me?

skinz78 · Sep 28, 2014

joshporksandwic said:
How come you don't say that about me?

I would if your shots were actually nice....:target:

ReeferEric · Sep 29, 2014

joshporksandwic said:
How come you don't say that about me?

skinz78 said:
I would if your shots were actually nice....:target:

That's gotta sting. LOL, hit him where it hurts!

maazreef · Sep 29, 2014

ReeferEric said:
Thanks! It's been a whole since I've updated on the system. In the near future I'll go into more detail. Wires have been cleaned up, bigger ATO container, it's just nuts now. LOL

Can't wait to see the update.