BUILDING A DREAM....SPS Dominated Tank build

sahin said:
Dude...how you be just showing us a box containing coral packages! Get them into your tank and be snapping some photos! :D
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Hello sahin,
Thanks for viewing.
To be honest I think i was bit too eager to get so many frags in one shot. Getting them all in the right places and making them stay there is gonna be quite a task :D
I'm gonna plan and try to blend them into the scape.
Some frags are holding colour but some bit darkened out.
Il get some pics by the weekend.

Rwpdunne said:
+1
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Hi Rwpdunne,
Thanks a lot for viewing. Do stay tuned for pics :)
 
Your aquascaping and coral placement is wonderful, one of the few whose reef design skills i find inspirational on RC. I once ordered 2 full boxes of acros direct from a collector and when i opened them in front of the tank i was like, omg,omg,omg look at all my pretties.......... then i looked at my already full reef and back to the 15 colonies and that's when the gravity of the situation hit me and in the end some of them spent the night on top of other colonies or they would have gone lawn surfing in anger - won't be trying that again :facepalm:
I'm looking forward to seeing what new additions you put in and where you place them. :thumbsup:
 
biggles said:
Your aquascaping and coral placement is wonderful, one of the few whose reef design skills i find inspirational on RC. I once ordered 2 full boxes of acros direct from a collector and when i opened them in front of the tank i was like, omg,omg,omg look at all my pretties.......... then i looked at my already full reef and back to the 15 colonies and that's when the gravity of the situation hit me and in the end some of them spent the night on top of other colonies or they would have gone lawn surfing in anger - won't be trying that again :facepalm:
I'm looking forward to seeing what new additions you put in and where you place them. :thumbsup:
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Hello biggles,
Thanks a lot for dropping by my build.
Your kind words for me has given me a "super boost" :)
Your compliment means a lot and I'm glad I could inspire ya.
You are right, these frags are quite a lot and I gotta secure them in the right places so they don't fall on each other or to the sand bed.
I do have some real estate left though.
I was planning to keep the central pillar a "live wall" of softies say some unique polyps, Xenia, mushrooms spreading and growing. But now I am planning on wrapping it with SPS frags/maricultured corals.
This means I will need more lighting. So I'm going back to the drawing board and gotta decide what will be the best option. As you all know I'm very much inspired by Japanese reefs....so maybe go for spot lighting or additional units....it will be LEDs thats certain :D
 
This is what I am looking at:
The new KR93XP with new LED full spectrum combo and lens tech...a very uniform and amazing spread. Here is picture (12")comparing it with the SP model...pretty neat huh?
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That new LED fixture is leaps and bounds ahead of most in regards to 'mixing' of the diodes individual spectral outputs prior to the light striking corals. I firmly believe that many LED problems are not about having the right full spectrum generating diodes on the fixture but how well the blend of different light spectrums being generated is delivered to the corals being illuminated. I see no point in adding reds and UV's etc if they are not being delivered to every coral in equal quantities just as occurs with halides and T5's. That's just my take on the continuing problems so many reefers seem to suffer despite appearing to have the correct full spectrum fixture. If i were to run a full spectrum LED over my reef i would run it as high as possible on max output to better blend the light rather than lower with the intensity turned down.
Can i ask how do your pinks color up such as SCC and/or other similar pigmented pink acros. Plaster the center column with SPS frags - put the flubber in a bucket and drop it off at your LFS.............. :)
 
biggles said:
That new LED fixture is leaps and bounds ahead of most in regards to 'mixing' of the diodes individual spectral outputs prior to the light striking corals. I firmly believe that many LED problems are not about having the right full spectrum generating diodes on the fixture but how well the blend of different light spectrums being generated is delivered to the corals being illuminated. I see no point in adding reds and UV's etc if they are not being delivered to every coral in equal quantities just as occurs with halides and T5's. That's just my take on the continuing problems so many reefers seem to suffer despite appearing to have the correct full spectrum fixture. If i were to run a full spectrum LED over my reef i would run it as high as possible on max output to better blend the light rather than lower with the intensity turned down.
Can i ask how do your pinks color up such as SCC and/or other similar pigmented pink acros. Plaster the center column with SPS frags - put the flubber in a bucket and drop it off at your LFS.............. :)
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Hi biggles,
You are absolutely right. Very clear explanation as to what LED lighting should be about. Thanks for putting it in simple terms :thumbsup:
It's really not about putting all the different colour diodes into a fixture and call it "full spectrum"
Its how the colours blend in and finally reach the target coral uniformly and it receives the true full spectrum.
The new unit with the lens seems to blend in the colours uniformly giving a balanced output. Can't wait to try it on :D
Regarding your question...I'm yet to have a true "pink" coral. But I soon will be getting some. Il put it to test and give yu details.
 
sahin said:
Very nice! You're getting very good colour in those colonies. How long have you had them?
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Hi sahin,
Thanks a lot for viewing.
They have been there for 2 weeks now.
I have not yet started B-balance or K-Balance yet. I'm planning to experiment in the coming weeks.
 
Success...:)
This is what i have been upto past few months...
I always wanted to keep Moorish Idols but feeding them is a big challenge.
After quarantine and attention for more than 2 months i got this idol to feed on pellets :)
Just posting a short clip of him munching on pellets in my display tank...

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Wow is all I can say=).. Nice tank and awesome thread very informative and great to read.. Def following along..
 
Reef_Noob said:
Success...:)
This is what i have been upto past few months...
I always wanted to keep Moorish Idols but feeding them is a big challenge.
After quarantine and attention for more than 2 months i got this idol to feed on pellets :)
Just posting a short clip of him munching on pellets in my display tank...

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thats pretty awesome - can you run down your qt process
 
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