- Location
- New Jersey
Wow!!!!!!! What's the big coral on the way on the left side? It looks HUGE!!! Btw looks like your going to need an upgrade soon lol amazing tank John. What your method water changes and dosing?
Jgraz's Finally a Proper Tank 90 Upgrade
- Thread starter jgraz
- Start date
Well the LED fixture solution is almost complete. Box is solid oak to match the stand.
The tank mounts from my Tek light were bolted to it. That will allow me to be able to raise and lower the fixture from about 11" off water to about 5" off water. Though I don't anticipate going that low.
Inside I put rails that the fixture will sit on.
All in all I think it came out pretty good.
Cost minus the legs which I had was around $50. Now need to do some hole filling, a bit of sanding, then I'll finish it up.
The tank mounts from my Tek light were bolted to it. That will allow me to be able to raise and lower the fixture from about 11" off water to about 5" off water. Though I don't anticipate going that low.
Inside I put rails that the fixture will sit on.
All in all I think it came out pretty good.
Cost minus the legs which I had was around $50. Now need to do some hole filling, a bit of sanding, then I'll finish it up.
- Location
- Rockland County, NY
Nice. Makes me want to do something similar over my tank. I don't really like the look of my dit led hanging.
I say do it. The fixture is great. I dislike Canopus on the tank. I'm very much a open top person. The fixture I build is rock solid.
With that said.....................
Update time.
Well at the end of October I switched to LEDs. So far so good on that front. All the growth seems great and I'm thinking in gonna stick with them. Colors have also gotten a little deeper as opposed to a slightly pastel look I was dealing with before, however, that could be both a combo of the switch in lighting and a second change I made.
At the same time I changed the lights I also pulled the bio-pellets. To aid in the switch I upped my WC's also and obviously went back to the refugium. The day I pulled the pellets I did a 10gal WC and did it again a few days later. Then I started doing 5gal changes roughly every other day. I'm def liking the results. Since I started this I've seen a huge increase in growth and have seen some of my colonies put on up to an inch worth of growth during this time. Frags that I've made during this time heal and grow over the breaks in only a couple of days. I chose to do the 5gal changes cause mainly it takes me about 5min or so to pull it off. So I'm gonna stick with it. My tank will never see pellets again.
Additions:
Mystery wrasse that hides all day. I usually only see it in the morning before the other fish come out.
Purple Firefish. Again a hider but he will pop out during feeding time.
Royal gramma. Comes out but stays close to his hole. Little though I expect to see it more and more.
Losses:
JF jokers wild chalice(literally gone overnight)
Also a large colony of some type of cysphestrea(sp). I think it was meteor shower. Not sure why I lost either one.
I've also been feeding my new addiction for Z's & P's and have come across some real gems lately. This particular addiction has not been kind to my wallet. I just wish I could pull the pics good but that will come with a new camera which is in the works. My newest additions include darth mauls, tyree space monsters, time machines, sopranos 2.0, nuclear sunsets, flaming Mohicans, bowsers, hallucinations, GB emperor, joes rainbow kazoo, electric Oompa Loompa, JF bloodshots, and ktar g-hornet. I think that's it, that's enough for now.
Here are a few pics for your enjoyment.
And finally a new FTS
Well at the end of October I switched to LEDs. So far so good on that front. All the growth seems great and I'm thinking in gonna stick with them. Colors have also gotten a little deeper as opposed to a slightly pastel look I was dealing with before, however, that could be both a combo of the switch in lighting and a second change I made.
At the same time I changed the lights I also pulled the bio-pellets. To aid in the switch I upped my WC's also and obviously went back to the refugium. The day I pulled the pellets I did a 10gal WC and did it again a few days later. Then I started doing 5gal changes roughly every other day. I'm def liking the results. Since I started this I've seen a huge increase in growth and have seen some of my colonies put on up to an inch worth of growth during this time. Frags that I've made during this time heal and grow over the breaks in only a couple of days. I chose to do the 5gal changes cause mainly it takes me about 5min or so to pull it off. So I'm gonna stick with it. My tank will never see pellets again.
Additions:
Mystery wrasse that hides all day. I usually only see it in the morning before the other fish come out.
Purple Firefish. Again a hider but he will pop out during feeding time.
Royal gramma. Comes out but stays close to his hole. Little though I expect to see it more and more.
Losses:
JF jokers wild chalice(literally gone overnight)
Also a large colony of some type of cysphestrea(sp). I think it was meteor shower. Not sure why I lost either one.
I've also been feeding my new addiction for Z's & P's and have come across some real gems lately. This particular addiction has not been kind to my wallet. I just wish I could pull the pics good but that will come with a new camera which is in the works. My newest additions include darth mauls, tyree space monsters, time machines, sopranos 2.0, nuclear sunsets, flaming Mohicans, bowsers, hallucinations, GB emperor, joes rainbow kazoo, electric Oompa Loompa, JF bloodshots, and ktar g-hornet. I think that's it, that's enough for now.
Here are a few pics for your enjoyment.
And finally a new FTS
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