jinx Posted December 22, 2014 Author Share Posted December 22, 2014 Picked up a frag pack from a local earlier today. $100 for 16 frags, not bad... Ponape BirdNeon Green BirdOrange and Green BirdStrawberry Fields MontiORA Bird of ParadiseLarge Purple MontiGerman Blue DigiGreen DigiHydnophoraPocillorporaYellow BirdRed CapORA Miami Orchid4-5 Head candy canePink Setosa Red Planet Link to comment
jinx Posted December 31, 2014 Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 Some of my sps have begun browning out but are still growing. Phosphates are 0, so I suspect my lighting is to blame along with moving them to my tank.. Going to lower the lighting period and see if it helps. Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 If they were turning brown from the light, then it would mean that they were not receiving enough of it. Link to comment
jinx Posted December 31, 2014 Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 I'm running 10hrs on with the 8 bulb tek 11 inches from the water. Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 All 10 bulbs during that time? Link to comment
jinx Posted December 31, 2014 Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 No, not all 8 at once. Starts bleaching coralline and kicks serious heat even with fans running over the bulbs. I have it split, 3h20m sunrise x 4 bulbs, 3h20m mid day x 4 bulbs, 3h20m sunset x 4 bulbs. Link to comment
jinx Posted December 31, 2014 Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 Depth from SB to the surface of the water is 15". Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Oh wait, 8 bulbs, not 10, lol. Can you only run it as four and four? Link to comment
jinx Posted December 31, 2014 Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 I can run all 8 at once, but it eventually pops the gfci socket that I have everything running on. I may need to ditch the gfci. So you think 216w in that 10hr span isn't enough? even with it only being 15" deep?? I originally had some cyano issues so I lowered the light cycle to deal with it. I need to buy or barrow a freaking par meter Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 I can run all 8 at once, but it eventually pops the gfci socket that I have everything running on. Whoa, something is very, very wrong if that is happening. Do you have a lot of other devices on the same circuit? What is the total wattage consumed at peak? If you don't already have one, I would invest in a Kill-a-Watt unit, well worth the $20 at Home Depot. Does it only happen with the light? Is it the GFCI that is tripping or the circuit in the room? You may also have a bad ballast. So you think 216w in that 10hr span isn't enough? even with it only being 15" deep?? Your lights are 26" away from the sandbed, so 8x54w is more than enough, I would have gone with 8x39w myself. What all bulbs are you using? Link to comment
jinx Posted December 31, 2014 Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 The whole bedroom, our bathroom, the hallway and half of another room is on the same breaker. This house hasn't been updated much since the early 80's. Been slowly redoing the whole place. The gfci is on a wall that another bathroom shares with it, the shower leaked bad when we first moved in, was installed like that when we moved in. I know for a fact it's daisy chained to the other outlets in the bedroom. We're getting ready to gut it here soon. The whole house needs rewired. LOL. Anything with a heavy load trips it. Right now I'm running 3 blue plus, 2 10k, 1 aquablue special, 2 actinics. Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 The whole bedroom, our bathroom, the hallway and half of another room is on the same breaker. This house hasn't been updated much since the early 80's. Been slowly redoing the whole place. The gfci is on a wall that another bathroom shares with it, the shower leaked bad when we first moved in, was installed like that when we moved in. I know for a fact it's daisy chained to the other outlets in the bedroom. We're getting ready to gut it here soon. The whole house needs rewired. LOL. Anything with a heavy load trips it. Yikes! That's certainly not up to today's code LOL Right now I'm running 3 blue plus, 2 10k, 1 aquablue special, 2 actinics. How old are the bulbs? When it comes time to change, I would try three Blue Plus, three Coral Plus, and two True Actinic (or their Giesemann equivalents, they are also great bulbs). Link to comment
jinx Posted December 31, 2014 Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 Bulbs are mixed ages, the blue plus are close to a year old, the 10k are around 3 months, actinics are like 6 months, aquablue is around 3 months. I was getting ready to swap them out as it was. Only 2 acro's, 1 bird, and the grape monti have lost color. It's possible I pissed them off with the transport from miami up to here. Some of my other monti's are doing great and haven't lost any color.. Hell, the neon green monti that my damsel ate multiple times, has regrown, has full color, and has grown to the rock. Some SPS are just super touchy. Flow isn't the problem either, I have this sucker moving. The frags came from a tank running mostly LEDS. Link to comment
slowngreen Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 $100 for 16 frags is awesome! Looks like good stuff too. Link to comment
HeyLookItsCaps Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 that fire red monti *hnnnnng* Link to comment
markalot Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 I have an ATI 6 bulb fixture and I just lowered it to 7" above glass tops. 500 PAR on the highest most corals and I still have acros getting darker in color. I'm still recovering from LED and PAR shyness so we'll see if this helps, but I also suggest going brighter. More power! Link to comment
jinx Posted January 1, 2015 Author Share Posted January 1, 2015 My only fear about going lower is the crappy center brace may crack from heat and uv damage. At it's current height, it gets hot enough to where you can smell the plastic getting too warm with all 8 lights going. In fact, I just checked the temp of the brace @ 115° F with a infrared thermometer. Link to comment
jinx Posted January 2, 2015 Author Share Posted January 2, 2015 Had some free time today, so... Freshly fragged gorgs and they're already back to opening up You can see mommy in the back right. Link to comment
jinx Posted January 4, 2015 Author Share Posted January 4, 2015 Well, I found something disturbing when I checked in on the tank today and found what's probably stressing my acros... red bugs found on 2 of my unhappy acros :x I'm pissed, considering I dipped everything before putting them in the tank with coral rx. Any suggestions for retreatment without stressing them further? I can pull them all out an re dip, but they are probably reproducing in the system now... I really don't want to have to nuke the entire tank with non invert friendly chems :\ Link to comment
jinx Posted January 5, 2015 Author Share Posted January 5, 2015 Looks like I'll be picking up some Bayer and setting up a QT tank for the acro's in distress. Link to comment
jinx Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share Posted January 8, 2015 Dipped with no losses! The one acro actually started recoloing, one of the others didn't take the dip so well... It went from a dark red brown, to a faded brown and the tips look like they may be bleaching. I've seen one red bug creeping around, but the majority seem to be gone. No other parasites other than red bugs showed up in the dips. I'm going to move the very upset acro to the sand bed to see if it'll help. Link to comment
jinx Posted January 12, 2015 Author Share Posted January 12, 2015 Long night last night.............. I cracked my sump like a dumb ass by accident Had to hurry up and find a sump to buy in the process. Luckily I found someone local selling one that worked out for me with little hassle. Needless to say, I was up until 5am fixing everything Link to comment
jinx Posted January 12, 2015 Author Share Posted January 12, 2015 I'll leave this here for now. Link to comment
jinx Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 Water tested since changing the sump, small spike in ammonia due to moving the sand from one to the other. dKH is a slight bit lower since sump changing as well. Looks like no serious problems going on at the current time. Link to comment
jinx Posted January 21, 2015 Author Share Posted January 21, 2015 Ordered a small Naso Tang to "maybe" help take out the dictyota I'm having explode in this tank. Removing the rocks is not an option... and I've made it worse by doing cautious manual removal. Link to comment
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