Nice! What size tank?
Gorgeous tanks, you'll love it!
It works out to a 200-205g display. The dimensions are 50"x38"x25". I went internal corner overflow. I went 25" so I can hopefully keep sand and really high flow. I just miss having tangs and sand dwelling wrasse to much. I have material to start doing rockwork then I'm going to start curing cycling it. CDA said 3 months but seems like everyone in the area is waiting more like 5-6 months with shortages ect. By then I think this tank will be pretty well grown in
That's awesome! Sand and wrasses are must for me too. I'll take what comes with sand any day, sure it can be a pain, but the sheer amount of micro fauna and bacteria that reside in the sand bed, far outweighs any cons. Have you thought about lighting? I'm actually thinking about using two Kessil 500x's and a couple panel-style lights over my tank, mounted really high, 2'?
I've been thinking about sand since I saw all the micro fauna when I visited your house and saw the tank. My buddy Eve went sand also and he's got an insane amount of pods ect in a tank the same age as mine. I want a gigantea or haddoni carpet with a pair of pink skunk clowns as well.
what panel lights are you looking at?
That's why I'm going to redo my canopy with 8020. I want to wrap the interior of the canopy with a reflector "flashing" like we used to do with vho's and mh, to maximize as much reflection as possible. It won't be much, but I'll take what I can get. I really like the ATI Straton's for panel lighting. I think a mix of panel/bars and other led's covers a lot of ground. I would do metal halide again, but it gets too hot here in the valley, that and 6500k bulbs are done. I remember when 14k bulbs came out, they were so blue back then, it's kinda funny now. Then radiums blew up, which started a whole new trend that basically inspired the next generation in lighting, LED's.
The only two would be ATI or photons.
Oh man, I'll want to check that out. I really like the look of the straton just havent seen one in person yet
Andre is using Stratons over his new lagoon tank and they look awesome.
Thank you!
They do look good. I love that they dont have fans either.
It's growing well! So far its really bright pink but its not that large yet and I'm assuming that is why I dont have multiple colors yet. I also have it low were it could table and not shade anything. In that all blue top down (not the best reference) its about 19 seconds in on its own little rock. Just below the purplish acro with yellow coralites.
Nice! I'm glad it's growing for you. I think a few of my pieces look different, mainly because I have so much flow in such a small area, probably too much flow?
The branches on my lime in the sky are super thick, but the pics I see in other tanks, they look kinda thin to me.
Yeah I’m pretty strong flow too compared to others. My MP40s are about maxed out on 60 sec alternating pulses. I noticed in a local grow out my piece stated to get thick and branch out where as everyone else had tall thinner growth. I prefer the thicker more compact growth patterns, I think it looks a little more natural.Nice! I'm glad it's growing for you. I think a few of my pieces look different, mainly because I have so much flow in such a small area, probably too much flow?
