metrokat Posted April 8, 2015 Author Share Posted April 8, 2015 The color on your lighting is so crisp and nice. What temperature/color are you using in these pictures? I'd like to mimic this. Nice tank. Thank you. My light is an ATI Nano Box retrofit. 4 T5 bulbs and 6 NB full spectrum arrays. T5 bulb combo is 2 Blue+ 1Coral + 1 Purple + The arrays are still ramping up so they are all channels on at the same power which is less than 50% of the total power of the unit. I can;t say enough good things about this fixture. Dave made it absolutely perfect for my needs. I couldn't ask for a better color rendering. My corals are loving life. Visually the tank looks like daylight but without the yellow tint. With a slight lilac/blue tint. I can't wait to play with the arrays though. ok.. shaggy is shaggy.. MetroSchwag GP Acro. That's the Green Kitty yo. 1 Quote Link to comment
hypostatic Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Hypo, what kind of camera is it? The pictures really are beautiful I use the Olympus TG-3, it's a really good all-around camera, especially for taking on vacation/adventures. For the "nano reef" hobby it's nice cuz you can dunk it in the water, do an automatic color balance to correct for those blue lights, and it has some really nice macro features for those extreme closeups 2 Quote Link to comment
DocReef Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Thank you. My light is an ATI Nano Box retrofit. 4 T5 bulbs and 6 NB full spectrum arrays. T5 bulb combo is 2 Blue+ 1Coral + 1 Purple + The arrays are still ramping up so they are all channels on at the same power which is less than 50% of the total power of the unit. I can;t say enough good things about this fixture. Dave made it absolutely perfect for my needs. I couldn't ask for a better color rendering. My corals are loving life. Visually the tank looks like daylight but without the yellow tint. With a slight lilac/blue tint. I can't wait to play with the arrays though. That's the Green Kitty yo. Just switched to LEDs and although colors seem to pop better under them, I find that I had the best growth and color rendering with T5s previously. I think a hybrid like this would be perfect. This will definitely be my next upgrade when I get a bigger tank. Thanks. 1 Quote Link to comment
Pinner Reef Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Kat what are the Paly's hiding out above the clam's mantle? Quote Link to comment
Pinner Reef Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 haha Cute lil bastards tho. Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted April 8, 2015 Author Share Posted April 8, 2015 No way. They're invasive. I have injected them with lemon juice, peroxide, air, stabbed them, tweezed them out. Bastards are cockroaches. Quote Link to comment
sunburn Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 Should be 3 days. For Cyano. It's not an eyesore by any means, just ever present on some spots. My TDS out of the membrane is 3, but zero out of the final DI canister. However the DI resin is clearly exhausted so how can I believe these readings? Has anybody used chemiclean as a dip? I don't have widespread cyano but I have it on some frags and rocks that I can remove for a dip. Wondering if as a dip it is also effective instead of a system wide treatment. Tank is looking great Kat! I used Chemiclean and it worked great to get rid of my cyano. The only problem was getting out of the tank. It made my skimmer go nuts for a few weeks - even after a few water changes. I never thought it would end. But it definitely worked. Quote Link to comment
jbb Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 Felt like this belonged here more than anywhere else 8 Quote Link to comment
amphipod Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 No way. They're invasive. I have injected them with lemon juice, peroxide, air, stabbed them, tweezed them out. Bastards are cockroaches. I'm sure a starter injection of toilet bowl cleaner and a follow up injection with bleach will chlorinate him to death Just kidding don't do that I don't want you to die But it will kill the polyps 1 Quote Link to comment
BluCrab Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 I'm in the process of a new build and I have a nice piece of live rock that has a few unwanted zoanthids, also some buna branch that has some majanos....I'm about to chisel those mofo's off. Wish me luck! haha Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted April 9, 2015 Author Share Posted April 9, 2015 do it do it do it 1 Quote Link to comment
BluCrab Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 do it do it do it yup it's gonna get dirty... reminds me of this old jam..."my neck, my back..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDJu7r6OUvk Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted April 9, 2015 Author Share Posted April 9, 2015 Arce and I wrote a couple of basic articles for Marine Depot Part 1 http://blog.marinedepot.com/2015/02/sps-corals-for-beginners-part-1.html Part 2 http://blog.marinedepot.com/2015/04/sps-corals-for-beginners-part-2.html 9 Quote Link to comment
Pinner Reef Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 You're Published!!! Good work you guys! 2 Quote Link to comment
cnseekatz Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 Arce and I wrote a couple of basic articles for Marine Depot Part 1 http://blog.marinedepot.com/2015/02/sps-corals-for-beginners-part-1.html Part 2 http://blog.marinedepot.com/2015/04/sps-corals-for-beginners-part-2.html Very cool. 1 Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted April 9, 2015 Author Share Posted April 9, 2015 My other articles Butt Fish http://blog.marinedepot.com/2014/05/the-intrusive-butt-fish.html Tank Parameters tracking http://blog.marinedepot.com/2014/02/track-your-tank-parameters-with.html Dirty Socks http://blog.marinedepot.com/2014/03/how-dirty-are-your-socks.html Live Rock http://blog.marinedepot.com/2014/02/live-dry-or-cured-which-rock-to-choose.html Nano Fish http://blog.marinedepot.com/2014/03/nano-fish-small-size-big-personalities.html 3 Quote Link to comment
Pinner Reef Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 I knew you were published before... Just kinda spouted off something Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted April 9, 2015 Author Share Posted April 9, 2015 I know you know that I know that you know I'm published. 4 Quote Link to comment
DocReef Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Arce and I wrote a couple of basic articles for Marine Depot Part 1 http://blog.marinedepot.com/2015/02/sps-corals-for-beginners-part-1.html Part 2 http://blog.marinedepot.com/2015/04/sps-corals-for-beginners-part-2.html Great read. I feel more edumacated 1 Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted April 10, 2015 Author Share Posted April 10, 2015 Great read. I feel more edumacated do you? kool beans 1 Quote Link to comment
Veng Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 I know you know that I know that you know I'm published. Since you used one of my photographs, does that mean I'm now a published photographer? 1 Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted April 10, 2015 Author Share Posted April 10, 2015 Yup :Rick roll: Quote Link to comment
Arce Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Arce and I wrote a couple of basic articles for Marine Depot Part 1 http://blog.marinedepot.com/2015/02/sps-corals-for-beginners-part-1.html Part 2 http://blog.marinedepot.com/2015/04/sps-corals-for-beginners-part-2.html If only my tank didnt look like poop right now!! =[ Quote Link to comment
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