600 Gallon Upgrade Build

scubadan206 said:
Have you seen Wayne? The standard Kessil360 on sale. Your tank is relatively shallow. You could get the wide angle ones in 10K and then do a diy fixture for some t5 actinic. That would look really good with great shimmer and good pop on the colors. Sunrise and sunset could be controlled easily with an apex.

Daniel
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You know it's ironic that I was thinking the same thing but accenting the kessils with the BML actinic/UV led strip. Looks like my money is going to be funny so if some mystical magical surprise comes, it's gonna look like the kessils than the hydras.
 
I almost pulled the trigger on a few of the kessil last week. I might still, so save some for me. I have big plans for an upgrade within the year. For now I have my 2 radions over my 120. I need to do more research on led strips soon. I don't like the ones I have seen recently. I bought rock instead. Only about another 500 lbs to go on that front.
Hope you're healing well so you can "play fish" as they say...
Daniel:beachbum:
 
scubadan206 said:
I almost pulled the trigger on a few of the kessil last week. I might still, so save some for me. I have big plans for an upgrade within the year. For now I have my 2 radions over my 120. I need to do more research on led strips soon. I don't like the ones I have seen recently. I bought rock instead. Only about another 500 lbs to go on that front.

Hope you're healing well so you can "play fish" as they say...

Daniel:beachbum:
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Thanks Daniel. I am healing well and the doctor has almost cleared me. Still wants me to take it easy another two more months so I have plenty of time to play fishy.

On a small sadder note I have started to develop cyano with some areas having clear bubbles in the frag tank. It's not green bubble algae. Could be bulbs starting to get old or to much nutrients or a combination of both. So I started dosing KZ coral snow to help eliminate the bacteria. Looks like I'll be doing my water changes out of the frag tank and DT until it disappears.
 
I wish Ii went with the Kessils......

Newbie...you or anyone going over to the Orlando reefapolosa next weekend? Im going to go over either Sat afternoon (family is running the TPA 5k on the airport runways in the morning) or Sunday..... rather travel up with someone to kill the time.....
 
FuzzyZipperbaum said:
I wish Ii went with the Kessils......



Newbie...you or anyone going over to the Orlando reefapolosa next weekend? Im going to go over either Sat afternoon (family is running the TPA 5k on the airport runways in the morning) or Sunday..... rather travel up with someone to kill the time.....
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See your thread.
 
here a diy led
on a 120 by 32 by 30 tank
10 X 100w leds

this was before we finished the plumbing.
total cost of the led with lenses, drivers, heat sinks and all. was just under $1000
took a total of 3 hours to build.
 
mattjoly85 said:
here a diy led
on a 120 by 32 by 30 tank
10 X 100w leds

this was before we finished the plumbing.
total cost of the led with lenses, drivers, heat sinks and all. was just under $1000
took a total of 3 hours to build.
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I like that overflow box. You could put dividers in there and breed clowns like Sanjay. :fish1:
I really need to find some reef meets near me. I'm going to Milwaukee tomorrow to the aquarium there, but I don't really know what to expect.
Hope you guys had fun.
Daniel :wildone:
 
As far as cyano goes, my best weapon was a toothbrush. Nothing reliably seems to eat it, and it can obviously grow in any environment. I'm my experience the best way to deal with it was to flush it into the sump where there is no light and pick out as much as you can by hand. I guess my bar goby helped as it started receding at the same time as I added him. I also started with the vodka dosing around that time, but you're already dosing carbon with the ziovit system. Go get 'em.
Daniel
 
scubadan206 said:
As far as cyano goes, my best weapon was a toothbrush. Nothing reliably seems to eat it, and it can obviously grow in any environment. I'm my experience the best way to deal with it was to flush it into the sump where there is no light and pick out as much as you can by hand. I guess my bar goby helped as it started receding at the same time as I added him. I also started with the vodka dosing around that time, but you're already dosing carbon with the ziovit system. Go get 'em.

Daniel
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And that's what I did. I syphoned all I could out and then put a toothbrush to the rest. Plus other than dosing coral snow and ZeoBac I am going lights out for three days.
 
I tried the vodka dosing thing years ago and had a cyano problem start up. As I recall, the theory was that the carbon dosing takes all the nitrates out and leaves phosphates that cause the cyano?

If this is the case would lanthanum chloride dosing fix it?
 
Cyano seems to have no rhyme or reason for what it does. Kind of like some kinds of cancer. It's just a shot in the dark. You can get cyano in filthy neglected systems just as easy as ULNS tanks. Weird. You need a multi-pronged attack to get rid of it. Some people say it's seasonal as well.
Daniel :wildone:
 
prickles said:
I tried the vodka dosing thing years ago and had a cyano problem start up. As I recall, the theory was that the carbon dosing takes all the nitrates out and leaves phosphates that cause the cyano?

If this is the case would lanthanum chloride dosing fix it?
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I don't know if LaCl will fix it. I tested my tank and got .25 ppm of nitrate and .05 ppm of phosphate. Its in areas of lack of flow so I might have to add a couple powerheads to help eliminate that. I thought with the closed loop this situation wouldn't have happened. The tank is in lights out now so I will see what will happen.

scubadan206 said:
Cyano seems to have no rhyme or reason for what it does. Kind of like some kinds of cancer. It's just a shot in the dark. You can get cyano in filthy neglected systems just as easy as ULNS tanks. Weird. You need a multi-pronged attack to get rid of it. Some people say it's seasonal as well.
Daniel :wildone:
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So very true. But I also heard that if you treat cyano with a product, lets say Red Slime remover, that once its gone and come back it will change to where the red slime remover wont affect it. Therefore you have to find another type of cyano product that have different properties to eliminate it. but if it comes back it adjusts itself to that product also so you have to go back to the first product and start the cycle all over again. Weird huh?
 
Cyano needs something to out-compete it. In this case some hair algae or a big ball of macro algae in the sump might be your friend. Hard to do with the zeovit system, no?
Dave.M. Have any experience with this combo?
Daniel. :headwally:
 
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