Blue Z Reef

I'll take it Steve

What about a used filter sock or small piece of rock?

Very cool, I'd keep them at half or less to avoid bleaching out your corals. Getting a 3rd light is totally up to you and if you want higher light corals in the middle. You can mount them higher for better spread, I think mine are like 18-24" up.

Upload to an image hosting site, I use photobucket. You can paste the code in here or just a link.

Huh...I've fragged lots of zoas, no protection at all out of the water and never had an issue. I must be zoa toxin immune #superjeffzoaman!

Sounds like a bearing on the shaft or the magnet going out, either way it's a new impeller to fix. If you want to bring your pump by I'll install the impeller for ya, just takes a second. PM me about it.

Looking good! That light looks pretty low, maybe a bit higher will help with the shadows. If your out in Vancouver hit me up for some new tank warming frags lol

It takes about 5 minutes to convert to a skimmer pump. The only part I'm not sure about is converting the threading on the outlet to match skimmer inlet.

Buy a DC12000, a pinwheel and volute from me, and adapt it to the sro3000. BAM! DC powered beast!

Holy cow Steve that's a beast! I was wondering about the geese lol! You doing a garage tank room/through wall or beast stand?

That's the one you want, it's low range phosphate checker. The regular one only reads whole numbers

They are pretty cheap on eBay, for a BB5k you should get one that reads up to 100 Scfh and you can use it on other pumps in the future. The BB5k should be around 72 Scfh depending on any restrictions from the silencer or tubing. I recently discovered my silencer to be gunked up inside. I would check if it pulls harder if disconnected from the silencer. Also the inside of the volute can get pretty gunked up if not cleaned out well.

Some LFS sell tigger pods in a bottle. I believe someone on here was culturing some though. If they were easy to catch off my glass id give you tons LOL

A few photo updates, thanks all for the compliments This blue stag is trying to get out...not sure how that's gonna pan out once he does.... These two are growing into each other, don't know who's winning but I should probably scoot one over a hair Sticks crowding all over each other, hate trimming them but think I will have to. I got this tri color from Jace as a tiny 1" frag. Growth has really been exploding on it lately. Clown lovin on the elegance as usual. Photobomb crew on the move...literally messed up half my shots with a big yellow blur

That's them, I have 4 on my 7ft tank and the coverage is perfect. I run a single 60" t5 to supplement. Purchasing "quality" lighting equipment is likely going to run you $500+ per light. If your parameters aren't dialed it's not going to matter what lights you buy. I'd focus on your levels and proper test equipment for an investment. Lights change so much as we learn more I'd personally rather not be so invested when the next breakthrough happens. It's easy to buy "quality" equipment to light a 10 gal tank Andy, not a decent sized tank. We're talking $300 vs $1500 for the OP. You know how many times I can replace the lights if they go bad for that difference? Is it worth paying 5x the price so I can ramp and do lightning storms? Not IMO, on/off and manual has kept my tank kicking for over two years now with excellent growth. Not trying to get into a rotating argument on buying cheap vs expensive, there are arguments for both sides. I just get tired of people focusing so much on the lighting aspect when realistically a well dialed tank with bargin lighting will outdo a Radion powered unkept tank.

What are the dimensions of the tank? Are you wanting $300 for the whole lighting package or each light? If it's a 4ft tank you'll usually need 2 lights assuming they cover 2x2ft area. Lots of people buy super spendy lights but personally I've had lots of growth with the 165w Chinese full spectrum leds that can be had on eBay for about $100 each. If you don't like the spectrum you can just buy diodes and swap them. They aren't fancy, just 2 channel with manual dimmers but I can't argue with the growth! I honestly think parameters are more important than the lighting assuming you have something capable of growing what you want in the tank. There are lots of options for lighting but $300 isn't a huge budget for much beyond the Chinese made or OCean Revive lights.

System Specs. Tank Size - 210 gal 7x2x2 with 40B sump Flow- 2X Jebao RW 15 and return from RF Dart Filtration - RO Elite 220 DC skimmer, BRS dual reactor w/ carbon/gfo, chaeto and LR in sump Lighting - 165w full spectrum China LEDs + 1 60" ATI blue plus bulb Dosing - Calcium Reactor with TLF Reborn media and BW mag media. 3 head doser with BW Mag, AcroPower, and Tiny amounts of Vodka. Occasionally dose ESV Iodine, BW Strontion, AV Fuel, BW Ferrion. Feeding - Pellets/flake daily, Rods frozen every other day, seaweed sheets weekly. Corals fed live brine and Coral Frenzy 2 times a week. Pics aren't the best this month, iPhone 6 is trying! Too busy to get the dslr out :S Palys: 2 Zoas: 9 Top Down: Front: Slightly angled:

It's ok, I've had some ups and downs with it for sure. The good thing is that they are always working on updates so that is promising that eventually it will be up to par. I had one issue where the system would randomly shut itself off and not restart...needless to say this was not nice to come home to the tank being off all day while I was at work. A firmware update seems to have remedied this issue. They just added a webcam page so I look forward to getting that setup one of these days. My main issue is the graphs just aren't as nice as the apex ones and the interface still feels lacking. As a system though it does everything I need it to. Still a few months out according to DA until we can use our old head units to control (sometimes it's a pain to get the phone out every time I want to mess with something. So if I could rate it if give it like a 7.5/10 with the potential to keep moving up.

Tank is looking great! Loving all the trades I got from you in my tank, thanks again!

Rudy sure gets the sweet zoas! Anyone have in tank pics of them?

At least bring it back for tank threads and classifieds...pretty standard to make edits on those.

Voted! Wish I could get shots like that

Cpr skimmers are not high performers by any stretch of imagination. One thing you can do to help it is add a wood air stone and pump. You can look it up, that's the mod most do to get them to skim a little better.

I bought one of these battery backup air pumps, pretty cool since it turns on automatically if it loses power to the plug: http://www.petmountain.com/product/aquarium-air-pumps/11442-521365/penn-plax-penn-plax-silent-air-b11-auto-on-battery-powered-air-pump.html?utm_source=googleproductads&utm_medium=cpc&gclid=CjwKEAjwjd2pBRDB4o_ymcieoAQSJABm4ego4tLAWY7Q9IkT5wodFLzQVWqF5-59PkUnxrinabk6uhoCrkXw_wcB I have an APC for running a wavemaker. As long as water is moving, I haven't had any issues. Obviously since mine is inside the issues of temp swings are less than the hillbilly porch reefs LOL

Mine ran 2 years on their own controller before dying. I've heard very mixed reviews on lifespan. I've switched over to RWs in hopes that they remedied these issues with the revision.