Official Solana owners thread

[jackson6745]

My old solana. deltec mce 600, phosban reactor, manually dosing b-ionic, tunze osmalator top off. I did 2 water changes per month. Very simple but water quality was pristine from the start.

 

[viplok]

My old solana. deltec mce 600, phosban reactor, manually dosing b-ionic, tunze osmalator top off. I did 2 water changes per month. Very simple but water quality was pristine from the start.

looks like t5 lighting system?

 

[E.intheC]

Rich, that's a great pic of an awesome tank!

 

[jackson6745]

looks like t5 lighting system?

6 bulb ATI fixture

 

[jackson6745]

Rich, that's a great pic of an awesome tank!

Thanks Eric.

 

[CHEMCHEF]

This tank was amazing

 

[E.intheC]

I'm excited to get this tank up and running.

There have to be other people still running a Solana... It would be cool if you have Solana specific tips and tricks to post them here.

 

[CHEMCHEF]

Hang a filter pad in the overflow to quiet it down.
Turn middle chamber into a fuge and light it through the back glass.

 

[CHEMCHEF]

Hang a filter pad in the overflow to quiet it down.
Turn middle chamber into a fuge and light it through the back glass.

 

[E.intheC]

Good ideas.

Who else has a Solana?

 

[litoreef]

Check mind out i has been up around a year now..anything you want to know..

 

[litoreef]

Idk why the pic came out side way..

 

[E.intheC]

Looks good. What kind of light are you running?

 

[litoreef]

Ty ,, ati sunpower 6 bulb , but thas only with two superblue+ on , i try put up another two pic bub it would not let me idk why..

 

[viplok]

i am seriosuly reconsidering my ai sol. the color of sps looks awesome in t5 compare to my sol... =[

 

[dnyce78]

Here's mine. Sorry only have crappy cell phone pics.

 

[viplok]

Here's mine. Sorry only have crappy cell phone pics.

wow two sol for solana? why? and what percent is it on? =D

 

[dnyce78]

I did two because one gave me so many dead spots. Both the corners ended up being extremely dark. It took me 5 months but now I run my lights at

BLUE - 100
ROYAL - 80
WHITE - 40

I have just about everything in the tank: torches, blasto, acan, zoos, sps, chalices, etc and have no problems finding the right light for each piece. All my coral starts at the bottom of the tank though and the lights are exactly 12 inches above the water line.

 

[viplok]

interesting, i had mines on 20 60 60 all my lps thrives. however, sps still seems alittle brown but slowly coloring up. but mines are only 6in awl. i wonder if my sps will burn from two =D

 

[E.intheC]

I added a Reef Brite strip this weekend, and it really makes the colors pop when the T5s are off. Minor improvement with all four T5s on.

I really like it overall, though.