435 gallon in wall see through easy sps

[bullitr]

I love my LEDs and metal halide combo but I am trying to save some more electricity since I am getting a solar panel installed soon to make my electric bill less than 100 bucks a month. I already replace my energy hog of a skimmer to Reeflo orca pro with dart gold pump that use only 148 watts compare to 205 watts while running only 3 pumps And 290 watts if I run all 4 on my oldskimmer but it's uses 2.2 amps each so 8.8 Amps total compared to 1.4 amps with the new skimmer

Anyways the Metal halide produce heat that keeps my tank warm during the winter that keep me away from getting a heater and i think acropora grow better under metal halide

The LEDs produce amazing colors and it saves more than half energy than the MH but it is still unproven to grow acropora and the coverage are too sharp.

My question are, will It bleached out my acropora under the 2 metal halide when I switch and run all LEDs during the warm month and will my acropora grows under all LEDs ?

TIA

 

[bullitr]

formal dining room side fts as you can see i have more softies in the tank

 

[bullitr]

All of my SPS are growing well.
But I can't keep Xenia ever since and all of my neon green leather finger are shrinking and most likely slowly die like the one before.
I feed really heavy 40 cc -50 cc per day before and about 20 ml now that my bioload is significantly less but I used to have a skimmer rated for 1200 Gallon so I downsized to reef orca 250 pro with dart gold and still can't keep them more than a week.I start growing algae and my nitrate was 5 ppm couple of days ago I thought my soft corals are finally start growing, I was wrong.
Also marco algae died in the tank too.

I Also have mushroom, colt and kenya tree and toadstool leather too but it's not growing but it's alive.
Any thought?
regular neon green leather

this pieces are dying and will be move to my softies tank tonight

 

[bullitr]

family room side fts

 

[Elliott]

do you have a Parr meter? lighting possibly too intense except for SPS?

btw, your SPS will grow well under LED's providing you choose the right fixture, there are some really good ones on the market now that produce great Parr values

 

[bullitr]

do you have a Parr meter? lighting possibly too intense except for SPS?

btw, your SPS will grow well under LED's providing you choose the right fixture, there are some really good ones on the market now that produce great Parr values

i was told my calcium and my water parameters are too clean.
so i have to set up a soft coral tank this weekend

my LEDs are doing amazing job
the color are great but the growth cant be compare to 12k overdriven metal halide.

 

[bullitr]

Correction my skimmer wasn't a pro it's just modded by the previous owner

 

[noclue111]

nice tank and vette

 

[bullitr]

nice tank and vette

Welcome to Rc and thank you

New problem

Extra large pagoda and neon hydropora

 

[bullitr]

Getting more LEDs
Thanks Chris!

 

[kmu]

I dont know how I missed this thread...

Amazing tank, congratulations

 

[bullitr]

I remove a lot of rocks and I am selling some of my Giant lps,sps,soft corals and anemones to minimized my tank rockscape to catch all of my fishes
So I will never ever have to see this again

New LEDs are coming this Friday
I can't wait
And I got some nice frags from fantastic frags
Hopefully it will grow to replace my giant pieces

 

[ArmanS]

Just read the previous page, sorry to hear about all your losses but I think that picture sums it all up. Your corals look amazing, and I love that carpet anenome, any more pics / details on it and where did you get it? Hopefully later when you purchase more fish you have more success.

 

[dainiusiva]

That is a very sad picture.really depressing...

 

[Dwerbs]

can't wait until I can build the tank I want this big.

 

[bullitr]

Do you feel like your going backwards

Do you feel like your going backwards

I love fish more than corals so I feel like I am taking too many stepback than moving forward
this was few months ago before the deadly outbreak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEHp7RGZZCU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Now My SPS are growing well and coloring great but i still have ick on my tank that will never leaves until maybe I go fallow the whole summer

This is the tank few weeks ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZZWBKmxyX8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXbL_kmufs4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[bullitr]

One of two new toy
200 watts LEDs

They look awesome but I don't want to take dirty picture of the tank ...

 

[edandsandy]

I remove a lot of rocks and I am selling some of my Giant lps,sps,soft corals and anemones to minimized my tank rockscape to catch all of my fishes
So I will never ever have to see this again

New LEDs are coming this Friday
I can't wait
And I got some nice frags from fantastic frags
Hopefully it will grow to replace my giant pieces

So sorry to see this picture, what happened?

 

[bullitr]

Ick happens

 

[bullitr]

All LEDs FTS family room side