Blackthunda77's 80Gal Shallow Reef Build

[nivram]

Let me know when you get the multichip

 

[blackthunda77]

Will do, but I believe it's.coming on the slow boat from China. Lol

 

[nivram]

Will do, but I believe it's.coming on the slow boat from China. Lol

I gotcha. Btw don't be getting to cozy with my meter. Lol

 

[blackthunda77]

I know I know, I've over stayed my welcom. my reflectors just came today so I'll be installing them tomorrow and taking a reading.

 

[blackthunda77]

Got a couple new specimens last night trading some of my frogspawn, candycanes, and my blue jaw trigger.

Thanks yman. And also thanks George for your generosity. It was nice meeting the both of you.

These are a couple nice sized colonies or purple deaths, jokers, armor of gods, and fire and ice. Some of them are still closed up from dipping them in revive.

Purple deaths from George and semi open chuckies brides from yman

AOG from George and superman monti from yman

Fire and ice from George. Still ****ed from the revive dip. Seems like they are opening up though. These are the bullet proof morph right George? Lol.

That's it for now. New lights should be going up tonight / tomorrow morning. Hopefully everything will be open tonight and I'll have better pics.

The jokers from George and the punkrockers from yman are still closed up from the transfer and revive dip. Hopefully they will be open by when I get home. I know they are only zoanthids and most people don't dip those but better safe than sorry.

 

[gatoralum69]

punk rockers are tough. Dang goby buried them couple nights ago and I did not notice until yesterday night. Dug them backup and within a couple of hours they were open again

 

[Juggernaut63]

"These are the bullet proof morph right George? Lol."

Yeah, give them a few days. They are most likely still detoxing from my nitrates! lol

 

[LitiGATOR]

Beautiful build; I just read this thread in its entirety. One question though: do you have the model number for the under-cabinet "moon light" that you bought from Ikea?

 

[blackthunda77]

Ok here is an update with some better pics.

Sunset monti

Fire and ice

Chuckies bride

Purple deaths

Jokers

Armor of god

Punkrockers

Superman monti

All of these pics were taken under my new reflectors so the polyps closed up a bit during the transfer.

I'll be posting the install of the new lights and some par readings shortly

 

[blackthunda77]

The new elite reflectors.

All of these readings were at the same depths, 1", 6", and about 13" under the waters surface and with the bulb 12" above the surface.

Par readings under the old batwing at 1" under water surface

6" under

13"

 

[blackthunda77]

Under the old lumenbrites

 

[blackthunda77]

Just to clarify, I was using one lumenbrite and one batwing till now

 

[blackthunda77]

Found these interesting quick connects at home depot, thought I'd give them a try

 

[blackthunda77]

Ok, and for the final results....and must say, I'm pretty impressed.

At 1"

At 6"

And at 13"

 

[blackthunda77]

And here's a peek under the hood...

 

[Hyperion1337]

wow looks really nice! any updated fts?

 

[blackthunda77]

I might take one as soon as I remove the holding rack holding the new.corals at the moment. I dont like clutter in the tank.

 

[blackthunda77]

Beautiful build; I just read this thread in its entirety. One question though: do you have the model number for the under-cabinet "moon light" that you bought from Ikea?

I'll try to look that up for you, but in all honesty its pretty easy to fine. It's the color changing unit that consists of 4 12 in bars and you can install them individually or connect them all and have a 48 in strip

 

[blackthunda77]

I believe this is the kit.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20119418/

 

[LitiGATOR]

I appreciate it, thanks