Madreefers New Build/Upgrade

[Madreefer]

Originally Posted by bslindgren

Thanks for hosting a "bonus" tour stop this year. Your tank is absolutely stunning, and it was great to see a worthy replacement for George Leven's tank.

Well thanks Staffen that means alot.

[Madreefer]

Mailman came yesterday yay!!



That's them in the middle, they're way skinnier than the Sol Blues on the ends and even skinnier than the Hydras beside them. I might play with how they are hung on the rack. They're way brighter and I turned the intensity down quite a bit.





Tanks been running good and only negative thing is that I woke uo this morning to see that my Bellus Angel had died. He'd been acting strange for the last few days so I was expecting it anyways.

[kien]

Tank is looking great! Those lights look cool.

[lastlight]

that is a ton of light over that tank wow. everything looks happy for sure.

[WarDog]

Looks like you are getting good SPS growth from all the AI fixtures!

[Madreefer]

Originally Posted by kien

Tank is looking great! Those lights look cool.

Thanks bud! I'm thinking bout swapping the Hydras on the rack and putting them where the Sols are. It's only been a couple of hours and i'll decide when I see how the tank looks in the evening when it's the main viewing time in my home.

[Madreefer]

Well I have'nt updated lately and i'm trying not too lose to much interest and trying to get that back.
So, the new Hydra 52s are pretty powerful so I took off the Sols from my lightrack and really dont see a difference with them off. So the Sols I guess will be sold. So i'm just running with 2 Hydras and 2 Hydra 52's. I'm experiencing a few tiny spots of cyano that show up every once in a while that drives me nuts. Very minimal but as most reefers i'm very picky and suffer from a little OCD
I'm thinking it's caused by the algae turf scrubber I built, so I took it off today. I noticed a bit of cyano growing on the screen, so out the scrubbber goes. Thought it may be from spent filters in all of RO cannisters and changed them as well as the membrane. I also took down my 90G frag/refuge tank and replaced with a 25G frag tank and it's now lit with one of my Sols. So in doing that 60lbs of liverock is also out of my system. Other than losing my naso tang all other livestock and corals doing well.

[kien]

An no pics? Reefers are OCD about that too.

[Madreefer]

Originally Posted by kien

An no pics? Reefers are OCD about that too.

Here ya go. Couple of top downs, the new Hydra 52s are pretty bright and I bleached my corals. I've turned the intensity down quite a bit. But really they are brighter than that, i'm no photographer