340g LED SPS tank from Brazil

[nvictor]

Wow these are awesome.

 

[RichK]

I am very impressed with the looks of your LEDs. I am in the process of FINALLY getting my new tank together in the new house and have been tossing around the idea of going to LED over my 400W Radiums I was using in the last house. I really want to make the system more efficient energy-wise. Keep up the great work.

 

[stpatrick]

Great. I thought the AIs would produce. I am running 3 over my 30x30x24 and love them.

 

[launchnukes]

Such a beautiful tank! And amazing colors!

 

[allsps40]

Nice, thanks for sharing.

 

[josephv]

Do the tangs all get along. Did not know you can mix an achilles and sohal.

 

[roberto_lopes]

Josephv

All the tangs are ok and pacific here. and, the achilles was the last to came in and on that ocasion he was the smaller tang. No fights at all.

 

[josephv]

My sohal would not tolerate that. He is a heartless brat.

 

[roberto_lopes]

Some new pics

Caroliniana green

Nasuta pink limonade

Tennius Gold

Chesterfildensis

 

[prop-frags]

Great work, Roberto!
You obviously are an SPS lover. Please tell us more about your husbandry...what are you dosing, water changes, etc. I absolutely love that granulosa - never seen anything like that before. The nasuta is gorgeous as well.

 

[ptr13]

nice tank,suprise not seeing LEDs in use at all with sps,they are great source for light especially with AI sol leds,xpg and xpe combo,very nice.

 

[snorvich]

Absolutely gorgeous! If those pictures are "horrible", I hope you never learn to take "good" ones.

 

[owentl]

wow, amazing tank. Great to see a tank that has had LED for 2.5 years.

Do you have any shots from say a year ago to compare the growth to?

 

[bagz727]

All i can say is WOW!!!

 

[roberto_lopes]

Great work, Roberto!
You obviously are an SPS lover. Please tell us more about your husbandry...what are you dosing, water changes, etc. I absolutely love that granulosa - never seen anything like that before. The nasuta is gorgeous as well.

Yes, I do love SPS. Teh colors, the growth.

My husbandry is quite simple:

Weekly Water changes (25 Gal)
Balling Method (keep my parameters as a rock)
Koralcollor + Reefsnow once a week one day before the water change.

Cleaning skimmer twice a week

GFO changed monthly
Sulfur Denitrator

Thats it.

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Yes, I have pics from months ago. I'll post some before/after later today.


Thanks all for the nice words.

 

[rkaires]

Excellent system Roberto! You corals look awesome.

 

[adam1980]

Jealous

 

[Powerboat]

Great looking tank! What size were your corals when you started? Do you have any pics at the start of the tank?

 

[stpatrick]

Awesome tank. How many minutes do you ramp your AIs and how loong did it take you to get them to 100%? I love mine but I am having a heck of a time getting them dialed in without frying something. I have the same depth but I cant get above 60% without the sps ejecting zooanth.

 

[roberto_lopes]

stpatrick

My ramp is 60 minutes from actinic (all blue) to Full. I'm using now, at full day light, 80%WH, 100%BL and 100% RB.

As I use led for more than years, my corals are already overprotected so they can support.

I also make several coral location changes based on the PAR they receive. So you cannot put a caroliniana under 600PAR and cannot put a Milli under only 150PAR.

Make changes and be patient woth adaptation of your corals. It takes months.