- Location
- New York, NY
Good Day to all Manhattan Reefers.
Been procrastinating on putting up this thread since i have set up the edge as a mini reef since January and now I finally had the drive to put up my own thread.
First off I got this Edge about a year ago when I was just in the planning stage of getting an aquarium set up for our apartment.
When I accidentally stumbled upon the fluval edge while googling, I immediately fell in love with its design.:inlove:
After more googling about it, I stumbled upon Picod's tank thread:wow: on her edge set up and the more that I wanted to get one of my own.:banghead:
So I took the plunge:tub: and bought one for myself having the vision of one day having a tank as beautifully executed as Picod's.:scratchch
So I did more research.:type: until it hit me that doing a reef set up will be costly. So i scrapped the reef project and had it planted instead.
Here is the tank during its planted state:
While having been contented for quite a while, I still did more reasearch on equipment, other mods, supplements and other miscellanous for the tank to transition it to a reef set up.
After long hours of thinking and figuring out about light set up and the cheapest mod I could do for easy to care for corals, :Lurking: and having a few messages sent to Picod asking for advice, I finally had the guts to go on and finally give reefing a try.
So i took the planted tank down and got some live sand and live rock for this tank to start the transition.
The initial DIY Led set up I made
I started out with some easy corals given a few members here (You all know who you are) to try out and see how the light goes in keeping them.
Thanks for helping me out in my initial stages into reefing.
Slowly getting it stocked little by little with some livestock, frags bought from other members and from MA.
It was too white and most likely has the inappropriate spectrum for most corals so I hit the Marketplace and was able to find some used powerbrites I can use for another light MOd (You never can stop trying to find a new mod for the Edge's Sucky lights):knockedou
So now this is what i came up with
And Having shifted to those Powerbrites really made a difference in the Corals currently in the tank.
They are all more vibrant and seem to be responding well.
So the battle with the light upgrading seem to be over for now.
Here is the latest tank pic a little more than 3 mos after the transition from Planted to Reef..
So Far it has been doing ok and its time to just watch the tank grow as i don't have anymore space to stock in more stuff which is a bit of a pro for me as I won't have to spend more to get new stuff.:biggrin: I hope..
Getting a bigger tank is not an option for me as this is what the wife will do :fishhit:if I get another one. She says 2 tanks are enough..
Been procrastinating on putting up this thread since i have set up the edge as a mini reef since January and now I finally had the drive to put up my own thread.
First off I got this Edge about a year ago when I was just in the planning stage of getting an aquarium set up for our apartment.
When I accidentally stumbled upon the fluval edge while googling, I immediately fell in love with its design.:inlove:
After more googling about it, I stumbled upon Picod's tank thread:wow: on her edge set up and the more that I wanted to get one of my own.:banghead:
So I took the plunge:tub: and bought one for myself having the vision of one day having a tank as beautifully executed as Picod's.:scratchch
So I did more research.:type: until it hit me that doing a reef set up will be costly. So i scrapped the reef project and had it planted instead.
Here is the tank during its planted state:
While having been contented for quite a while, I still did more reasearch on equipment, other mods, supplements and other miscellanous for the tank to transition it to a reef set up.
After long hours of thinking and figuring out about light set up and the cheapest mod I could do for easy to care for corals, :Lurking: and having a few messages sent to Picod asking for advice, I finally had the guts to go on and finally give reefing a try.
So i took the planted tank down and got some live sand and live rock for this tank to start the transition.
The initial DIY Led set up I made
I started out with some easy corals given a few members here (You all know who you are) to try out and see how the light goes in keeping them.
Thanks for helping me out in my initial stages into reefing.
Slowly getting it stocked little by little with some livestock, frags bought from other members and from MA.
It was too white and most likely has the inappropriate spectrum for most corals so I hit the Marketplace and was able to find some used powerbrites I can use for another light MOd (You never can stop trying to find a new mod for the Edge's Sucky lights):knockedou
So now this is what i came up with
And Having shifted to those Powerbrites really made a difference in the Corals currently in the tank.
They are all more vibrant and seem to be responding well.
So the battle with the light upgrading seem to be over for now.
Here is the latest tank pic a little more than 3 mos after the transition from Planted to Reef..
So Far it has been doing ok and its time to just watch the tank grow as i don't have anymore space to stock in more stuff which is a bit of a pro for me as I won't have to spend more to get new stuff.:biggrin: I hope..
Getting a bigger tank is not an option for me as this is what the wife will do :fishhit:if I get another one. She says 2 tanks are enough..
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