Prattreef 4 months after the crash

[prattreef]

A little more than 4 months after the near total crash, the system has really settled in and is exhibiting good growth and great color, in part because of the lighting upgrade to Radion Pros.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=u6-4lrMQSEQ

 

[tunicata]

Hey Randy,
Are you at the school?

I'm sitting in front of my tank and thinking of going out for a bike ride.

Be there tomorrow to stare at the tank and chat.

 

[OGGISPORTS]

Wow looks great

Great work

 

[SteveZ15]

What lighting were you using before?

 

[prattreef]

What lighting were you using before?

Radion Gen 1 for about a year or so. 250W MH for the prior 7 years of this tanks life.

 

[tangmaniac]

Very nice love the colors of your sps .
What is your light schedule on pros ?

 

[prattreef]

Very nice love the colors of your sps .
What is your light schedule on pros ?

I ramp up quite quickly over the course of an hour from all blue at 9:00 AM to full intensity 12k. ( all channels on full ) and stay there until 7:00 PM where there is a quick one hour ramp down to off at 8:00 PM.

I am not a big fan of overly blue tanks and find the 12K setting the most appealing to me in my Acro dominated tank.

 

[charliethetuna88]

Looks great randy nice colors man so I guess ur liking the radions .its good to see the leds working on a big system I just got 6 kessil a360 on my 300 hopefully it starts looking like urs .I too had the raduim halides and its hard to beat that bulb ....

 

[NYreefNoob]

looks good randy

 

[prattreef]

I am very happy with the Radions, but I'm glad Eco Tech had the good sense to make the 12K setting the one that uses all channels on full because I would not be happy if I needed to under-power the unit to get a reasonably crisp white appearance to the tank. The pics render bluer than the tank looks in person, but this is as blue as I can personally tolerate for primary lighting.

 

[rookie07]

Tank looks great!!!

 

[greg 45]

I have been wrong before but I thought that Ritchie told me you were running the Fathom leds. Did you not like them . I just removed my Pacific Suns and installed the Fathom's that I thought you guys were using.
Maybe I miss understood him ow well my badd if im wrong

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Tank looks awesome randy. Great job.

 

[greg 45]

I didnt think i was wrong

http://http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/fathomled/139664-prattreef-anemone-tank-fathom-leds.html

cannot show hyper link looked back on 1/15/2013
you showed anemone tank with the fathoms

 

[Jim]

Wow Randy, the tank looks great. It's hard to believe you went through a crash just 4 months ago.

 

[charliethetuna88]

Hey randy what salt are u using

 

[albano]

Hey randy what salt are u using

Pretty sure it's ESV !... And the tank looks great... Again!

 

[prattreef]

Thanks everyone. Yes I use ESV salt, and B-ionic and ESV MG and ESV carbon--- sensing a theme? lol

Greg, i use Fathoms on the anemone tank. I've never used them over the main reef.

 

[ClosetFishGeek]

Tank looks great !!!!!

 

[greg 45]

sorry thought you only had one tank , never got to see set up when i went to the swap