BTLDREEF 180g

[btldreef]

yasha and randali pistol shrimp. ... also has my black ice snowflakes.

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[Awibrandy]

Great Vid, and great looking sps!!

Love what you've done with your piece of the ocean. Congratulations.....

 

[btldreef]

Okay... Time to get back on track.

 

[btldreef]

no acros.... smh. beginning tomorrow will start it all over again.

 

[Awibrandy]

Congratulations on the new addition to your family!!! Many blessings!!!!!

Glad you didn't throw in the towel on your reef! If there were no challenges this hobby could possibly become boring.
Best wishes on a healthy, beautiful reef in your future!

 

[btldreef]

Update pics

 

[Awibrandy]

WOW, everything looks so happy & healthy!:cheers:

 

[btldreef]

thanks. not bad right?...everybody says that leds wash out the colors of corals. i think that is mostly because they put the optics to increase the par too much. in some of the pics you can see the leds almost replicate a halide in the way it spreads.

might have to challenge jerl77, james404, and the others in their t5/halide/led battle lol.

 

[btldreef]

some pics from a few months ago. all royal blue leds at 90%

 

[Awibrandy]

Absolutely "Not Bad"!!

I've been told that LEDs make LPS look translucent. Have you found this to be true?
I will be changing my fixture soon, and not knowing which way to go with the exception of NO MH. Too much heat from them. The minute MH come on temp raises 2 degrees within the hour.:smash: I was seriously looking at T5s simply because of the price of LEDs, but I sent Wingo an email with the specs of my tank & canopy. Waiting on a reply, we shall see what happens.
BTW, we have to talk tat, sending you PM.

 

[btldreef]

Thank you. No my Lps are not translucent at all under LEDs. It's all about placement and the strategic placement of optics. I had t5 then halide and now LEDs and I will never too back. I have used my reef clubs par meter to record the amount par being produced and it is quite significant. Not to mention lack radiant heat and excellent coloration. If wingo helps you then great, if not I will help you build your own fixture the way you would like it.
I have built.and help build led fixtures for cryptics, Shalco,buddman, and others.

I know they are expensive at first but well worth it in the end.

 

[btldreef]

new goodies!!! thank you ecchybridle.

some zoas thanks to cryptics

 

[REEF MANIA]

Beautiful tank!!!

 

[btldreef]

Beautiful tank!!!

Thanks!

 

[btldreef]

UPDATE JUNE 2012

leds dimming. from right to left. i choose about 10k-12k for daytime.

purple nana recovering.

can never get a good shot of my coral beauty.

brides of chucky and my favorite spiderman blastos

chong bongs

red hornets and birds of paradise.

purple hornets

colony of blastos i bought from country critters that i am trying to save.

 

[btldreef]

dusk..... blues at 80% and whites at 10%

 

[garys reef]

thats my coral lmfao one of these days i will get to stop by i know we live really far away from each other but one day i gotta see this tank

 

[btldreef]

lol...seriously same town but never able to meet up. anyways, you hit it on the head that lantana frag ...is turning into second colony...

 

[garys reef]

sweet my plan comming together lmfao im working a 16 tomorrow but im gonna try to hit you up around 830 900 is that ok i will text you see where i am at also looking into a tat

 

[btldreef]

a tattoo huh??? you came to the right guy....