Ben and Rosies 300g 4x4x2.5
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wowkingjames
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I love your set up!
bdinnerv
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I finally pulled my finger out over the weekend and got down to the hardware store and picked up the materials for doors for the cabinet / stand.
I have kept it pretty clean and simple in line with our old AquaReef 395 with the simple clip on / magnetic panels - went with 16mm MDF and will epoxy paint them.
I got them cut to size over the weekend and in place, just need to sand and paint now.
I will hopefully get that finished this week and then the stand is finished, leaving some cabling work still to go underneath.
We also received a delivery of 18 aqua cultured SPS frags from Sustainable Reefs the other day -
I dont have shots of them in the tank yet as am still deciding on where all the final resting places will be which should also be done later this week but man, are there some great colours here! Here are the samples from the supplier -
We are pretty much fully stocked on the coral front now (a couple of more deliveries coming later this week) - we have taken the approach of mainly getting smaller pieces and frags and then letting them grow into the tank rather than getting large colonies so now it is just a waiting and maintenance game.
Will get more pics of the tank once all the coral is in its spot and also when the doors are painted.
I have kept it pretty clean and simple in line with our old AquaReef 395 with the simple clip on / magnetic panels - went with 16mm MDF and will epoxy paint them.
I got them cut to size over the weekend and in place, just need to sand and paint now.
I will hopefully get that finished this week and then the stand is finished, leaving some cabling work still to go underneath.
We also received a delivery of 18 aqua cultured SPS frags from Sustainable Reefs the other day -
I dont have shots of them in the tank yet as am still deciding on where all the final resting places will be which should also be done later this week but man, are there some great colours here! Here are the samples from the supplier -
We are pretty much fully stocked on the coral front now (a couple of more deliveries coming later this week) - we have taken the approach of mainly getting smaller pieces and frags and then letting them grow into the tank rather than getting large colonies so now it is just a waiting and maintenance game.
Will get more pics of the tank once all the coral is in its spot and also when the doors are painted.
sfsuphysics
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So how do you like the Ethereal LEDs? I saw them at MACNA, but finding it very hard to find anyone who's using them on tanks. Plenty of reviews from aquarium blogs but those you have to take with a grain of salt anyways
bdinnerv
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They have been really good to date Mike - we had 2 of them on our old 4x2 and we loved the look of them - the mounting system is nice and clean and works with euro braced tanks well. As far as lighting for coral goes, they were really good too - we had great growth and coloration on all coral including SPS - I cant compare them to any other lights as I have not tried too many others but we were happy enough to go and double down and put 4 of them on the new tank.
The control app is pretty good and lets you control setup some nice light profiles and also comes with some good base maps to start with. Hard to fault really.
Lets see how they go in this tank though - it is a bit deeper than the old one and a bit more SPS dominated. Time will tell .
bdinnerv
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I used the atlas scientific probes with the Whiteboxes arduino board which includes electrical isolation on each individual circuit which is meant to remove this issue - I did however calibrate and test each sensor in isolation and then in the complete setup and there does not seem to have been any skew of readings so the isolation seems to be doing its job.
And thank you
