Marc.The.Shark Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 Love the look of the Tropic Eden sand. I just got some of the Meso Flakes to try. Wanted a smaller grain, figured I'd try the new size Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted September 23, 2015 Author Share Posted September 23, 2015 Love the look of the Tropic Eden sand. I just got some of the Meso Flakes to try. Wanted a smaller grain, figured I'd try the new size My tank would look like this if I didn't use Grand Select And then we'd have this guy running around Link to comment
Marc.The.Shark Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 yeah, I have a tad lower flow that your tsunami!! lol Link to comment
neuwave Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 Sand! I see sand! Woo-hoo. After 5 hours of Solidworks homework I log on to Nano-reef and Ben's got sand. I like it. I have two candy cane pistols in my tank digging away keeping the sand nice and clean. Hope you find one, they are great additions. Link to comment
Hexadron Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 Sand looks good. KEEP IT! Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted September 27, 2015 Author Share Posted September 27, 2015 This urchin is amazing. Bone white rock left wherever it touches. Link to comment
Hexadron Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 Do they eat Bryopsis? Just curious. Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted September 27, 2015 Author Share Posted September 27, 2015 Do they eat Bryopsis? Just curious.I haven't seen it make it to my bryopsis patches just yet, but judging by its appetite so far, it will take anything! Link to comment
teenyreef Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 Awesome! So what do you do when it's eaten everything? Link to comment
Sancho Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 They eat everything. Except what ever macro jack was growing in his last tank and the Dinos i had in mine. They do a number on coraline also. Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted September 27, 2015 Author Share Posted September 27, 2015 Awesome! So what do you do when it's eaten everything? Dunno yet. Hopefully this garbage won't be growing back, at least not in the proportions they are now. I'm thinking of some nice macroalgae, so it would have to go. Link to comment
markalot Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 Hey Ben, have you ever combined spectrums to see a final result, or is there a tool for it? I'd like to know the final spectrum of 5 blue+ and 2 purple+. I was surprised to find it looked blue/white rather than purple and is probably the closest I've been able to get to the radium look, Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted September 27, 2015 Author Share Posted September 27, 2015 Hey Ben, have you ever combined spectrums to see a final result, or is there a tool for it? I'd like to know the final spectrum of 5 blue+ and 2 purple+. I was surprised to find it looked blue/white rather than purple and is probably the closest I've been able to get to the radium look, There is a tool one something like 1023world.net that has a spectrum tool, but I think they removed their t5 data. I still have no internet at home (been three days so far, bastards) so I'm not sure of the exact link or if that data is there or not, but it works and is fairly accurate. Link to comment
RollaJase Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Hmm, may need to get myself an urchin... Link to comment
4x5 Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 My urchin had an insatiable appetite but ate nothing but coralline algae. It was quite the disappointment. Link to comment
Sancho Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 My urchin had an insatiable appetite but ate nothing but coralline algae. It was quite the disappointment. yes but they are also entertaining. Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted September 28, 2015 Author Share Posted September 28, 2015 So far mine has only picked up a couple of snake polyps (though when it passed by the rock that had them, it latched onto three of them and nearly ripped them off the rock lol) and some zig zag periwinkles, but I can collect those by the thousand so I don't mind if it wears them Link to comment
markalot Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 There is a tool one something like 1023world.net that has a spectrum tool, but I think they removed their t5 data. I still have no internet at home (been three days so far, bastards) so I'm not sure of the exact link or if that data is there or not, but it works and is fairly accurate. http://spectra.1023world.net/ I love it. They still have just about every light source, just click on Items once you get the interweb back. Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted September 29, 2015 Author Share Posted September 29, 2015 FTS 9/29/2015 You can see that the leftmost rock has almost no algae on it at all - the urchin has cleaned it near 100% bare. Slowly but surely it is working on the right rock. You can actually see it in the reflection on the back glass where it has been working, here: Maybe someday I'll have coralline grow and cover the rocks. Link to comment
Pinner Reef Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Oh hey, a clean spot! Link to comment
teenyreef Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Looks beautiful, but kind of dark. Are you sure your lights are bright enough? Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted October 1, 2015 Author Share Posted October 1, 2015 Found my old skimmer cleaning brush that was too wide to fit inside the cup properly, it has super stiff bristles, so took the opportunity to scrub the rightmost rock to try and manually get rid of some of the algae. Did a pretty good job. Then took the gyre and blew all the rocks and such, cranked it and the return pump up, and put on a pair of 1 micron filter socks. Ain't nothin gonna be left in the tank Link to comment
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