Deja vu - Wazzel's 60 cube build

[Anonymous]

No problem. I'll start you a pile.

kewl.
I think these new lights may be giving me the upper hand I really needed to get rid of that hair algae, now that I can all but delete the white light, yet use other spectrums of light..

That may not be a good idea. I know with the Hydras and radions white is one of the power channels. Cutting it down to much really deprives corals useable light.

they're down but not off, and from what I have read, the most usable spectrums are blue, and deep reds(mid 400 and 600s respectively) - since setting up the lights, three sps corals have shown more growth then the previous 6 months combined(3 weeks now) - my tank looks between 15 and 20K

That is good to hear. I have read a lot of those articles too. I have a hard time wrapping my head around the focus on blue when corals occur from tidal zones where they get near air color light to deeper where blue is more predominant. IMO there has to be more going on. Something else to consider is white is full spectrum and the "colored" LEDs are narrow color bands. White really helps bridge the gaps.

 

[Anonymous]

Birds nest and setosa were getting close to a couple of corals and were loosing so I trimmed them back a bit.
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[Anonymous]

Here are a few from last night. About 2 weeks shy of a year.

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At sunset

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[Anonymous]

Birds nest and setosa were getting close to a couple of corals and were loosing so I trimmed them back a bit.
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kewl! lemme know when you have some ready for shipping!

 

[Anonymous]

The items on the large disk are my secondary colonies. Let me look what is growing well and I will send you a list. There are some that I have not fragged for sale yet.

 

[Anonymous]

Just for fun here is 12 months of growth comparison. The first 6 months was kind of rough. I had red bugs, a nippy fish, bad algae, a destructive hitch hiker crab and had to figure our my lights. The last 6 months things have been going well.

May 2014
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August 2014
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November 2014
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February 2015
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May 2015 (last night)
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[Anonymous]

The 60 will be coming down tomorrow. I had been contemplating an upgrade build and stumbled across a 150 complete system for a really great deal. I am getting tank, stand, hood, skimmer, pumps, lights, apex, rock, fish, corals for just a bit more than just the tank I wanted would have cost me. It is actually going to cost less then my 60 did. Once I sell the 60 and some of the stuff from the 150 I do not want I will be out of pocket very little.

The contents of my 60 are going in a kiddie pool Friday night for the weekend. If all goes well they will be in the 150 by Sunday night.

 

[Anonymous]

The 60 will be coming down tomorrow. I had been contemplating an upgrade build and stumbled across a 150 complete system for a really great deal. I am getting tank, stand, hood, skimmer, pumps, lights, apex, rock, fish, corals for just a bit more than just the tank I wanted would have cost me. It is actually going to cost less then my 60 did. Once I sell the 60 and some of the stuff from the 150 I do not want I will be out of pocket very little.

The contents of my 60 are going in a kiddie pool Friday night for the weekend. If all goes well they will be in the 150 by Sunday night.

Have fun. You should be wore slap out by Sunday night!

 

[Anonymous]

The 60 will be coming down tomorrow. I had been contemplating an upgrade build and stumbled across a 150 complete system for a really great deal. I am getting tank, stand, hood, skimmer, pumps, lights, apex, rock, fish, corals for just a bit more than just the tank I wanted would have cost me. It is actually going to cost less then my 60 did. Once I sell the 60 and some of the stuff from the 150 I do not want I will be out of pocket very little.

The contents of my 60 are going in a kiddie pool Friday night for the weekend. If all goes well they will be in the 150 by Sunday night.

Have fun. You should be wore slap out by Sunday night!

I suspect so

 

[Anonymous]

The seller backed out last night. So glad my sister invited us over for dinner and I held off taking down my tank. A bit agitated but no harm done.

 

[Anonymous]

People suck.

 

[Anonymous]

I am happy I did not start reading my tank down. I was just annoyed. If I had torn down my tank I would have been furious. I did pick a used hydra52. I am getting some shading on the steep side of my scape. Need to wait for the mounting rails to come in to see how it goes.

 

[Anonymous]

Added a second Hydra52 this past weekend. Needed to deal with some shading. These light have great color and power, just not so good spread, especially on anything with any steepness in the scape.

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[mutley29]

Beautiful Tank.

Great growth and colour, might have to upgrade my regular hydra's to 52's.

 

[Anonymous]

Well here are the 15 month shots. Just iPhone shots, hope you enjoy.

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This guy got to top heavy and fell over.
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Growing to close to the glass and getting a flat front.
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[Anonymous]

It's gorgeous.

 

[mutley29]

Took the words right out of my mouth Louey.

Nice tank Waz.

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks guys. Super happy with the way this tank is going.

 

[Anonymous]

Update pics coming soon (November). I added a yellow eye kole tang a week back. Originally slated for the frag tank, but it did not like it there so in the display it went. Added a red tuxedo urchin to the frag tank. It is kind of cool. I dumped a bunch of frags at the LFS and took out half the grate. The frag tank had becomes a eye sore and a giant PITA to keep up. Since I pulled half the grate and got rid of a bunch of frags things have turned around. I guess all the grate was blocking flow. The frag tank might make the update since it looks so nice. Right now if has only a few frags for sale and functioning more as and overflow/holding tank as I pull pieces that are getting shaded or causing trouble in the display. This weeks re-home was my green Caulastrea. The teal one may be joining it soon.

Once marching season is over I need to tie up a few home projects that are not quite finished. After that I will be starting on the upgrade.

 

[Anonymous]

Top down at feeding time today.

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