whitrose02 Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Updated 3.27.12: Equipment: Clear for Life 40 gallon br 10 gallon sump/refugium Hydor Seltz 320gph Pump 2 Koralia Nano 420gph Powerheads 200 watt Marineland Heaters (x2) AquaEuro 1/10HP Chiller Neptune Apex Jr. Controller DIY'd 36 Dimmable LED 18cw/18rb from Aquastyleonline.com DIY'd external durso style overflow, 1" DIY'd Stand DIY moonlighting (LED's) Our suppliers (all LFS or found at frag swaps): Vivid, Fantastic Frags, Wet Thumb Frags, Fraggle Reef, Garrett's Acropolis, and of course some San Fernando Valley Reefer members who we've traded or bought from. Fish: Misbar Ocellaris, Extreme Misbar Black Ocellaris, Yellow Watchman Goby (paired with shrimp), Leucistic Chromis (he's all white with black eyes), Red Possum Wrase, Multicolor Dwarf Angelfish, 1.5" Baby Tomini Monti's: Orange Plating, Violet Rim Green Plating, Hot Pink Branching Digitata, Purple Haze Encrusting, Rainbow Encrusting Acro's: ORA Red Planet, Royal Blue, ATL Tar Heel's Stag, ORA Borealis, ORA Frogskin Other SPS: Sour Apple Birdsnest, Ponape Birdsnest, Tubbs Purple Polyp Birdsnest, Pink Lemonade Pocillopora, Tyree Pink Setosa Other Corals: Giant Green Polyp Duncan, Fluorescent Green Star Polyp, Red & Green Trachyphyllia, Palau Nepthea, Tyree Neon Green Toadstool Inverts: Narssius Snails, Turbo Snails, Red-Legged Hermit Crabs, Cleaner Shrimp, Peppermint Shrimp, Tiger Pistol Shrimp (paired with Goby) Macroalgae (in the sump): Chaeto, Red Lace Link to comment
whitrose02 Posted January 22, 2011 Author Share Posted January 22, 2011 We added some pictures! Link to comment
Chyendra Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 Looking really nice! Is the purple SPS with green polyps your tri-color acro? Link to comment
bdehlin Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 Thank you! Yeah, the tricolor acro's polyps are extended all the time and his color is better than I thought it would be. Link to comment
whitrose02 Posted January 28, 2011 Author Share Posted January 28, 2011 Updated! We added an algae-eating Blenny (still trying to ID him - we'll add pics in the morning for help on that) and some Kentucky Blue Grass Zoas that I've had my eye on for about 2-3 years when Vivid still called them Jolly Rancher Zoas. We also got a very cool neon-green mushroom with orange bumpy bits... It is a good day! The Blenny is something special so look for it tomorrow... Link to comment
reef-luva Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 Sweet tank....see ya at the SFVR frag swap!!! Link to comment
whitrose02 Posted August 7, 2011 Author Share Posted August 7, 2011 Updated Pics! See page 1! Link to comment
JoelRHale Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 I really like this tank, your coral choice is excellent. Link to comment
whitrose02 Posted August 22, 2011 Author Share Posted August 22, 2011 I really like this tank, your coral choice is excellent. Thanks very much! We're very careful about our selection of corals. At first, we just bought whatever, and ended it up with an all one color, so now we try to be diverse in our selection. I think it's turned out well. Link to comment
JoelRHale Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 It definitely shows, I'm running into the same problem, I think I'm getting way too much purple. Link to comment
whitrose02 Posted August 24, 2011 Author Share Posted August 24, 2011 It definitely shows, I'm running into the same problem, I think I'm getting way too much purple. Lol ya. To keep ourselves in check, we keep a FTS with us. We have to select a good spot to put a coral before we buy it. It's helped us out a lot. There have been a few conflicts, like "You can't put the Alpha and Omega's next to our Ring of Fire's... too much red!" Link to comment
whitrose02 Posted October 21, 2011 Author Share Posted October 21, 2011 We made a video! Check it out here: http://youtu.be/GnpUM8TmlfY Link to comment
bdehlin Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Just felt like taking some pics of the tank this morning before the daylights kicked on. Link to comment
whitrose02 Posted February 2, 2012 Author Share Posted February 2, 2012 Just posted a new FTS with our DIY Aquastyle LED! Link to comment
bdehlin Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Since I've gotten a few questions about the LED fixture, I thought I would post a few pics. Custom Lid with 1.5" U-channel heat sinks with black wire for white LED's, and blue wire for blue LED's. Nic's wiring diagram made all the solder points line up perfectly, her planning made this nice and clean. The heatsinks are floated off of the wood using stainless steel sleeves that just fit over the bolts we used. Dimmable controls installed into the front of the canopy. U-channel heatsink for the LED drivers tucked out of view. White and Blue on lowest setting. White 100% Blue 100% White and Blue 100% We tend to leave the LED's on at about 85% Blue and 80% White, at 100% it's a little too bright. Feel free to ask anything else about the LED's or the build itself. Link to comment
Singlefin Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Did you get a kit from aquastyle or did you piece it together yourselves? how much did you end up spending on your lighting? Link to comment
bdehlin Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Did you get a kit from aquastyle or did you piece it together yourselves? how much did you end up spending on your lighting? We bought the standard 36 LED dimmable kit and spent only $12 on the heatsink. Including the hardware, LED kit, and heatsinks, we probably spent about $160. Link to comment
bdehlin Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 In case anyone was wondering about how good the Aquastyle LED kits are, here's a two month growth shot. I could not be any happier with the growth and coloration achieved by these lights. 2.1.12 3.27.12 Wanted to show a side shot of the tank: Link to comment
d'Espresso Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Very very nice 40b. What skimmer are you using? i would like to try out diy leds someday too! Link to comment
bdehlin Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Very very nice 40b. What skimmer are you using? i would like to try out diy leds someday too! Thank you! We're using a modded Seaclone 100. It's got a terrible reputation, but it works well for us. After switching from T5's to LED's, I wish we had done it sooner. The growth is great, but what is really amazing is the coloration we're getting from them. Everything in the tank pops now, it's been great watching our red planet turn from green to red and take off the way it has. Link to comment
JR! Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Well nice 40. The sps is amazing Link to comment
bdehlin Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Well nice 40. The sps is amazing Thanks. We got a bit overgrown on the left to the point where we had to start up a frag tank to put all the birdsnest trimmings. Hopefully all that slow growing stuff on the right will grow better with the LED's and fill up the rest of the tank. Link to comment
keydiver Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 very nice build! the polyp extension looks wonderfully healthy Link to comment
Singlefin Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 How bout some pics of your overgrown forest. Are you happy with the growth from your LEDs? Link to comment
whitrose02 Posted June 21, 2012 Author Share Posted June 21, 2012 How bout some pics of your overgrown forest. Are you happy with the growth from your LEDs? We are very happy with our growth. We had to hack back our Bird of Paradise and Ponape, and the Neon Birdsnest and plating Monti's need it as well... they are taking over! Link to comment
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