Arsonmfg

I've got two nice mini colonies that are just taking up space at the moment... Unknown blueish purple with blue polyps and a green mini stag colony with neon polyps. iPhone pictures suck and don't do the pieces much justice. $50 for the pair of them...

Because it makes no difference, as long as you are supplying an equal supplement to your uptake.

There's absolutely no reason to turn the co2 on your reactor off and on... I don't know how many time's I've heard of someone crashing their tank or having stability issues because they're running a controller on their reactor. Set it and test your alk till your your stable where you want it and leave it alone. I could care less what the ph is inside of the reactor.

Weird... I'll try to pm you.

Sounds to me like your probes were't properly stored and have now failed. Oh and don't waste your time running a probe on your calcium reactor, it's completely unnecessary.

Interested in trading for a SPS mini colony?

Yeah, somebody definitely got a deal... Sadly it wouldn't surprise me if we see it in the classifieds or on craigslist in the next few days.

Somebody has already scooped it up for free, I called and talked to his wife and offered to pick it up and give them a tax write off for full value of every piece of equipment itemized since it would be a donation to my mother in laws school to setup as they're new tank in the science class since they've already outgrown the 55 and the 90 in the classroom. Somebody scored a deal...

Looking good, what are the dimensions on the tank and who built it? Love the Ritteri, makes me want to get another! What I love the most if the chopped up giesemann fixture! It's nice to see someone besides myself that's crazy enough to chop up $1000 light fixtures lol.

Guess it's time for a little update, colors light slowly coming back... Went lights out for a few days and things lightened up pretty while I added new sand and pulled the leds out of my powermodule. Back to 8 T5's and things already look better! New bulb combo is Blue+ Coral+ Actinic Coral+ Purple+ Actinic Coral+ Blue + This week I'm going to try moving a few bulbs around and see how things look but overall I'm pretty happy with the current tank color.

Smaller as in 5" as an adult... how big is your tank?

Everything can or will have a negative impact on your tank if dosed incorrectly... The recommend dosage is exactly that, Recommended So start with half the recommended dosage and then slowly move up from there, if you start to see negative impacts then step it back and go from there. A fully thriving reef tank is nothing more than a fine balancing act.

It's one of the components I use in my tank, I haven't used to by itself to really narrow it down the benefits by itself. I will say start with half of the recommended dose, I've found that if I dose to much I get a mild Cyano outbreak in the sand but it quickly disappears in a few days to a week. If it happens I just don't dose that part of my feeling the next week. No negative impacts that I've seen.

Yes it's true, your better off buying double. As for how many it really depends on how heavy your bioload is on your tank already and your future livestock plans.

I've got a real nice 60x30x14 tank going up for sale soon with frag racks to hold a few hundred plugs... On a side note I've started replacing corals that were lost in the transfer with some new pieces, excuse the pics, they were just banged out quickly. The photos don't even do these pieces justice but it'll have to do for now...

I replied to your PM...

I'll re_purpose them for something I'm sure, there's really nothing there that's stock from the 26 anymore. Pretty much every part has been modified to work inside the Powermodule. I actually changed out the purple+ for another actinic bulb, changed the pucks around and did some tweaking on the led's and I'm pretty happy with how the tank looks at the moment. I really need to get my hands on a par meter. I'm just not sure If I'm producing the amount of light I want. Thanks! I built everything outside of the tank on a table, the rock on the left is comprised of 6 different rocks. Essentially there's three main structures. The one on the left is one solid piece now. I love the look of a rimless tank, it's a PITA to clean but it's worth it.

Hmm... I'll have to put some of those on my order as well to try out. Interesting! This true...

Thanks, it's getting there!

Yeah they seemed to have quit talking about them now... I emailed Yorgos but have yet to hear back. I haven't tried their Crystal UV, from the specs it looks pretty much the same as the ATI Actinic bulb. Have you compared the two? If so what were the noticeable differences? I'm a fan of the Purple + bulb although I might swap it out with another Coral + just to see how I like it. I'm not really chasing color, I've been quite happy with my previous combo in the dimmable sunpower, I think most people will agree that have seen my tank that I've got pretty good color in most all of my corals.

I'll be running the same combo I ran on my old tank till Pacific Sun get's around to releasing those new bulbs. Front to back All ATI bulbs. Blue + Coral + Actinic Purple + Blue + Actinic Coral + Blue + This is pretty much the same combo Travis is running on the display tank at the shop now although he's running a couple Giesemann bulbs (I believe just the actinics) because for some reason the ballasts on the Red Sea tank's don't like to fire a full load of ATI bulbs. Here's more info about the new Pacific Sun bulbs... the spectral charts for both bulbs look really promising.

Nope, I tried it and honestly I think it was killing some of my color no matter how I tweaked things. The little bit of shimmer is nice but in the end I still like my tubes better. Maybe if I tore down a 52 and used 4 multichip clusters I'd find it better but I can't see replacing two 54w tubes in the center and swapping for the 26 leds being a positive trade off. With the optics I'm sure the par would be comparable but it looks like crap with the optics so... out they go! I'm also excited to get some of the new Pacific Sun bulbs, they've got two new bulbs coming out that look like they'll have A LOT of potential. In the end I should probably give the leds a little more time but I'm just not feeling it, I think I'll have better and healthier looking corals under all T5. The only other project I might take on is converting my powermodule to dimmable ballasts and controlling them via my Apex, that'll probably be where I eventually end up.

Tank is slowly coming back into shape, already started adding more SPS and things are on the up and up. Project for tomorrow, RIP OUT THE LED'S! Back to all tubes for this guy =)

Exactly... You can make the exact same thing BRS sells you for about $2.00 per gallon.

When I was running two part one of my safety measures was using small bottles that needed to be filled every couple days, that way if there ever was a system malfunction and it unloaded a whole bottle into the tank it wouldn't do too much damage. Worst case would be a large alk spike but hopefully not enough to nuke the whole tank... Just food for thought.