Proteus' Shallow reef build

[thmh]

Originally Posted by neoh

don't mean to hijack - but I've been having a hell of a time with my LPS with Vertex Illuminas over a 18" deep tank at 52% - overall health is suffering, and considered going back to my T5's with some ATI's. My nano tank on the other hand with a PAR33 bulb is a life saver. Any corals that are diminishing in health I drop in there, and overnight they transform.

If your tank is lps dominant try running more blues and less whites in my experience lps loves led.

~Tony

[Proteus]

Originally Posted by thmh

If your tank is lps dominant try running more blues and less whites in my experience lps loves led.

~Tony

Agreed. Wifey has a par38 on her tank and lps love it

[neoh]

I currently run 10W/50/52. Not much white in there. I did have a semi tank crash a little over a week ago and the corals are starting to wake up again, so - we'll see.

[Proteus]

Bling Bling Baby




Wow what a difference. I have it at 14" to start. I'll leave it for a while and see how coral reacts. Been so long since having halide I forgot how crisp and clean it looks
The spread of that luminarc is crazy. No shadows at all

[lastlight]

Originally Posted by Proteus

The spread of that luminarc is crazy. No shadows at all

the reflector has nearly as much volume as your display. that doesn't hurt lol.

[Proteus]

Lol. Yeah never thought of that.

[waynemah]

I really like how your setosa is spilling onto the ground! Cool effect.

Any updates? How's the halide?

[Proteus]

Halides great. Sort of. I had some ballast issues. The vertex ballast was from a bad batch and was under driving the bulb to the point of flicker. Vertex has since stopped production and abandoned that line. I borrowed a ballast from MA until new one arrives. Going to try a luxcore eballast.

In turns of the outcome it's been great. Growth has increase dramatically and colors on new growth is amazing. I have one pieces that gone from green to blue and purple. Really has become a fav
For the most part colors are coming around as I had a bleaching incident just prior to switching

The setosa has I crusted 5x that pic since puting the halide on

[waynemah]

Post up some pics when you get around to it. I like progression shots.

[asylumdown]

FWIW I've found that certain LPS families just cannot take my radions either. Chalices, most brains, scolies, etc... no go in my tank. They bleach to death rapidly wherever light hits them directly. Elegance corals, frogspawns, and *some* acans do ok. The funny thing is that under a Kessil ocean blue in my pico tank, all my brains recovered beautifully, got back their super deep, rich reds and greens. That fixture is LED, but it has no red or green diodes, and the mixture of blue to white is completely different, which might be the reason

In any case I'd likely try T5s on a smaller tank in the future.

Have you had any corals that have morphed in an unappealing way under the halides?