markalot Posted January 8, 2018 Author Share Posted January 8, 2018 1 hour ago, MortalWombat said: Great tank and awesome photography skills! Definitely following. 1 hour ago, slowngreen said: What do you shoot with @markalot Thanks. It's a Nikon D5500 and the best pictures are taken with Nikon 35mm f1.8 lens. Topdowns are taken with the kit lens because it fits in the topdown box and I can't afford the big $$$ for a wide angle lens. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
Clown79 Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 Congrats. Your tank is beautiful Quote Link to comment
markalot Posted February 12, 2018 Author Share Posted February 12, 2018 4 hours ago, Clown79 said: Congrats. Your tank is beautiful Thanks Clown, much appreciated. 1 Quote Link to comment
Clown79 Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 21 minutes ago, markalot said: Thanks Clown, much appreciated. I don't know what you are doing but keep doing it? The tank is stunning. Quote Link to comment
markalot Posted February 12, 2018 Author Share Posted February 12, 2018 51 minutes ago, Clown79 said: I don't know what you are doing but keep doing it? The tank is stunning. Not doing much of anything, that seems to be the key ... until someday it doesn't work. Since I've been more regularly dosing two part and KH has stayed above 6 the caps have exploded in growth, meaning I'm going to have to do some trimming at some point. It's interesting how some corals can tolerate low KH by slowing growth and still looking good. In other news, the new light is here, and I haven't had time to put it up yet. My goal is to measure PAR on the glass lids and duplicate as close as possible with this beast. NanoBox Retrofit. 5 4 Quote Link to comment
markalot Posted February 12, 2018 Author Share Posted February 12, 2018 KH 5.5. Good grief. Everything looks great, aiming for 6.5 in 2 days and will go from there. 1 Quote Link to comment
mystersyster Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 Loving the progress of everything Mark. Sorry if I missed it somewhere but what are your nitrates at on any given day? 1 Quote Link to comment
Orangutran Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 Congrats on TOTM! And the new light... 2 Quote Link to comment
markalot Posted February 13, 2018 Author Share Posted February 13, 2018 6 hours ago, mystersyster said: Loving the progress of everything Mark. Sorry if I missed it somewhere but what are your nitrates at on any given day? Near 0, unfortunately. I haven't tested in a long while, I will test in the next couple of days and post it here. 1 hour ago, Orangutran said: Congrats on TOTM! And the new light... Thanks! 1 Quote Link to comment
vlangel Posted February 14, 2018 Share Posted February 14, 2018 Double Wow! How does your head not explode being in the room with 2 such amazing tanks? 3 Quote Link to comment
DaveFason Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 New light up for that FTS? 1 Quote Link to comment
markalot Posted February 17, 2018 Author Share Posted February 17, 2018 1 hour ago, DaveFason said: New light up for that FTS? No, still haven't had time yet. I know! 1 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 That new light is going to be amazing! Hope the corals agree Quote Link to comment
markalot Posted February 17, 2018 Author Share Posted February 17, 2018 Getting this done. @DaveFason Airborn All those years ago the wife helped me line up the tank in case I ever wanted to hang a light. Now all I have to do is get the positive and negative right ... what could go wrong? 6 Quote Link to comment
markalot Posted February 17, 2018 Author Share Posted February 17, 2018 Connect the wires. Blinkup and ... Success! 8 Quote Link to comment
slowngreen Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Mark, its not August! 1 Quote Link to comment
markalot Posted February 17, 2018 Author Share Posted February 17, 2018 Max par with old setup, 400 center and 150 edges. Now 700 center, 330 edges. I better turn it down a bit. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 You are living the dream 2 Quote Link to comment
markalot Posted February 18, 2018 Author Share Posted February 18, 2018 The tanks nerve center. FTS compared to the 150. I am only running LED's. T5 bulbs are installed but I want to try LED only for now. With T5's on PAR is over 1000 so obviously I'd have to raise the light or back off the LED's. The color is really good, with the lime + Mint channel doing a great job producing a color very similar to the coral+ bulb. 6 1 Quote Link to comment
slowngreen Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 What bulbs you going to run? 1 Quote Link to comment
markalot Posted February 18, 2018 Author Share Posted February 18, 2018 1 hour ago, slowngreen said: What bulbs you going to run? I have installed 2 coral+, a blue+, and an actinic. If I run any it will be the coral+ and actinic combo for a few hours a day. The other slots are for storage. I had dave confogire the light for the maximum amount of flexibility. I can run 2 or 4 T5's, or of course none. The only coral in here that really benefits from T5 is the red goni. It's not so much that it benefits but it's a dark red and looks very dark under LED. It may morph colors under LED only, only time will tell. 3 Quote Link to comment
DaveFason Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 One thing to note this light runs ZERO white LED. I added BEAM strips to add the wattage that is not used with the whites. Shows you how much the blue spectrum can effect PAR! -Dave 3 Quote Link to comment
markalot Posted February 19, 2018 Author Share Posted February 19, 2018 12 minutes ago, DaveFason said: One thing to note this light runs ZERO white LED. I added BEAM strips to add the wattage that is not used with the whites. Shows you how much the blue spectrum can effect PAR! -Dave It looks really really good. White is the devil! And these are mint only right? I said Lime + Mint but I think I'm wrong about that. 'LED only' looks much better than my big fixture with the separate white and Lime LED channels. Always improving My last trick may be to send my old 6 bulb fixture to North Carolina ... maybe next year. 2 Quote Link to comment
reefinnewb Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Great looking tank! I read all 58 pages. It was like a book. It had me happy, then sad, then frustrated. Well done. Makes me want to abandon my cube and go back to a breeder. I LOVED my breeder until it cracked and I lost most everything. Of course disaster strikes when you're not home... Keep up the great work! 1 Quote Link to comment
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