Blue Z Reef

Yikes man that sucks. I had BOTH of my WP40s fail within minutes of each other. Amazon Prime is your friend!

I have the generic 165w versions (same thing). I have 4 over my 210 and have been pretty happy with them overall. You can see my build thread for pics of my tank. Older pics had 120w RS LEDs.

I thought they were a sponsor....well, Welcome back to me lol!

Swabbie is epic, highly recommend to all as well!

Awesome tanks guys! Keep the vids coming! It's a nice change from just pictures ????????

Quality not the best...not sure what photobucket did there :(

Sweet tank Smann! That clown lol! Huge nem...nah I'll chill over here

If you read online about it lots of people use Windex. The only precaution you need to take is to spray it on the paper towel first and not directly on the glass (don't want airborne getting into the tank).

I would get him some frozen food like Rods or Reef Frenzy that had a good mix of things in it. Also some frozen mysis is always good too if you can't get the others in the mean time.

Sweet! Can tell those would be super amazing in person!

You have Sunny D zoas? If not come get a frag from me one of these days.

I've been really happy with my Aquatic Life reg. They run about $150 new. I control it with a pH probe so never had an issue.

I'll take those vday massacre zoas, PM me your availability. Thanks!

It's a 210 long so it's 7' x 2' x 2' don't usually see the long ones, the tank itself is pretty old (slightly regrettable buy but you live and learn).

Dang! Elegance corals are hard enough to come by, that's a shame they killed it! Definitely leave bad eBay feedback (after you get your money back of course).

Haha just trying to keep up with the Clarkdashians :P

Overall the programming is similar to how it was in MyReef, but I did find it a bit less user friendly. I think without previous knowledge of RK programming it would have been much more difficult. If anyone has any questions about a new Archon, I'd be more than happy to help where I can. There are some good helpers on R2R too!

Got my Archon up and running thanks to Eric at DA! Decided it was time to get the spaghetti wireoni out from under the stand and get all my controller bits mounted together. Not fancy by any stretch of imagination but really cleaned up under the stand! Future tanks I'll go the fancy controller box route

Here's what the web interface looks like. Overall it's ok but could be better. We'll see how DA runs with it (or the users for that matter, apparently editing isn't too difficult if you know web design).

That's too bad. What did you end up buying? Did anything in the batch make it?

What's your nitrate and phosphate? Mine got really pissed when I was running too little nutrients.

Funny, cost is why I am switching. My LFS stopped carrying the 2 part I like in larger bottles, so with the smaller bottles and the amount I dose (100mL daily) it would cost me $4 a day to continue to dose 2 part, which works out to $1460 a year. So the calcium reactor way would save me about... oh... 1300 a year.

Haha well I guess you have a point there. Just saying, a lot of hobbyists cringe at the initial investment instead of looking at the long term payback. Dosers are a lot cheaper than a reactor, feed pump, co2 tank and reg, ph probe/monitor...however the op cost is definitely a benefit after the investment!

Plus there is the "I make my own 2 part" folk swinging the 2 part cost scales...

Looks good so far!

Excellent choice on the MW salinity refractometer, I love mine, definitely worth the investment.

There are lots of good nano leds these days, just depends on how much you want to spend. I have one diy one I made for about $30 that would work great on that tank. Although, the kessil would be a great choice or maybe a hydra 26 or radion nano. There are also a plethora of Chinese fixtures these days that do a great job too, eBay is your friend lol!

Good to see another Couve reefer! Hit me up for frags when the tanks ready

My main reasons are:

1. Easy - depending on the tank load, media can last 6+ months. You don't need to refill anything, just keep the reactor running and life's good. It doses equally so no adjusting alk/cal individually (unless something else gets things out of balance). Also, depending on the size of your co2 tank, one fill can last up to a year or more.

2. Adds extra trace elements not found in 2 part. As I've found from my nutrient stripping escapade, extra nutrients are a good thing if you have a good system to control them (without rapid depletion).

3. If done properly, no rapid swings. Things may drift up or down but it's usually gradual if you set things up properly. Makes it easy to re-adjust and let things come back to normal.

4. Control via probe. I know not everyone uses them, but regardless, you can make easy adjustments to your set points in your controller. Since you run apex, this means you could do it remotely if you were gone. With the current age of testing upon us, I think this could become an even more valuable feature in the future.

Cost is not in its favor, but it's really just the initial investment. A bag of reborn media cost like $30 and a co2 fill is about the same. So you can figure after the equipment, that's your operating cost every 6mo to a year.

That's my 2 cents, I like mine a lot!

Food for thought, depending on your incoming TDS, Sediment/Carbon/DI is an option. I crinched the numbers last Friday on usage based on an incoming TDS of 43ppm. A square foot of mixed bed DI resin would run about 8,500 gallons of water. Came out to 4.9 cents a gallon as I recall.

 

Now, someone running the Dual Membrane RODI needs to cross reference to see what is more economical. For me, living in the high desert, water is expensive so cutting down on backwash (wastewater) is very important.

 

Oh, and Buckeye Hydro is who Bulk Reef Supply gets their parts from in case anyone wanted to cut out the middle man or customize their water filtration setup.

Haha I wish I only had 43 in, ours is 110 on a good day. My resin goes out pretty quick even with a nice membrane.

Thanks for the tip on Buckeye, I'll have to check them out!

From what I've read you go from a 1:4 good to waste ratio to a 1:1 with dual membranes. You will still have a 1:4 if you go 150gpd vs dual. The main issue as stated is pressure. I run a single 150 and have to have 60 psi in to the membrane to be efficient. It's likely similar for dial 75s. I was going to go dual 150s but my dang booster pump died so I'm stuck with the inefficient for now :(

Phew...just looked, haven't order in a year or so lol!

And who hacks BRS...of all the websites...

Awesome, I was just looking at him the other day, very cool fish! Love the see through fins with black outlines. Nice snag