Sawdonkey's 220 Progress Thread

Fudsey · Feb 24, 2017

Just read through your entire thread @sawdonkey and I must say, your tank looks BEAUTIFUL ! ! !

sawdonkey · Feb 28, 2017

sawdonkey · Apr 7, 2017

I change my lighting up. I'm no longer using the Ocean Revive. Just wanted to try something different. I'm now using two Sanrise R90 LED fixtures with a two bulb T5 retrofit running two ATI Blue Plus. Here's normal LED plus T5:

Here's normal LED with no T5:

Here's LEDs with the whites cranked up to 80% and no T5.

sawdonkey · Apr 7, 2017

Couple more coral shots:

reeftank220master · Apr 8, 2017

Your 220 looks great . Here's my 220

bubbaque · May 11, 2017

What sand were you using before switching it out?

Daniel@R2R · May 11, 2017

I love watching this thread

sawdonkey · May 18, 2017

bubbaque said:
What sand were you using before switching it out?

I don't remember because I had it forever.

I've had some tank issues lately. I had a spike in nitrates (15-20ish) and that combined with the stress of adding new light, I lost a couple of colonies. I was getting browned out corals due to the NO3 and burnt tips due to the new lights. Im working on getting the NO3 back down and I've dialed the new lights down. I've stoped the coral losses, but I still have some coloring up to do.

FarmerTy · Jul 31, 2017

How's the tank bud? Everything doing good after the lighting swap?

adam87 · Jul 31, 2017

FarmerTy said:
How's the tank bud? Everything doing good after the lighting swap?

I think he went back to the Ocean Revive. The other lights were not work out for him, corals were losing their color.

FarmerTy · Jul 31, 2017

adam87 said:
I think he went back to the Ocean Revive. The other lights were not work out for him, corals were losing their color.

Thanks for the update. I switched away from OR fixtures as well even though they were working perfect. I was curious how well the corals would look under an 8-bulb ATI fixture.

Hopefully all his corals recovered and he's back at growing some beautiful colonies.

sawdonkey · Jul 31, 2017

FarmerTy said:
How's the tank bud? Everything doing good after the lighting swap?

I just typed an update on my local forum and don't feel like typing again, so here's an image:

Maritimer · Jul 31, 2017

Glad to hear things are turning around for you!

~Bruce

FarmerTy · Jul 31, 2017

sawdonkey said:
I just typed an update on my local forum and don't feel like typing again, so here's an image:

Me too! Glad to hear things are on the mend!

bubbaque · Nov 24, 2017

How about an update?

sawdonkey · Dec 4, 2017

Well, things were back on track until my neighbor in my 3-unit condo building decided to have a fire. My condo is destroyed from water damage and is down to the studs. Im not even living there. Tank is still running but has been neglected since early sept. The mitigation company blew a breaker that the tank is on and it went without power for over 24 hours. I lost all fish except my two triggers.

This weekend, I have to tear down the tank and move it to my back bedroom. Then when the condo is renovated in a few months, move it back to its spot.