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Awesome, I'm so jealous.
drummereef's 180g in-wall build
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I found a pic I took on my phone of the toadstool before it's transformation. I have no idea how this would happen so quickly but like i said, overnight. Crazy! :hmm1:
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Wow - I've been reading this thread slowly over the last few weeks. Fantastic work! I'm really impressed by the dedication and slow improvements over time. It has been said many times before, but I'll say it again. Awesome setup, fantastic attention to detail and absolutely impeccable cable management.
With your new Ocean Revive S026 LED fixture, it is too bad that the Apex can't control it.
With your new Ocean Revive S026 LED fixture, it is too bad that the Apex can't control it.
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Thanks Pife, much appreciated.
Interesting! I slow dripped it over roughly 24 hours. Wonder if I'd see less side effects dosing BRS mag or another supplement when needed?
You are welcome!! Thank you!
Thanks for the kind words.
My Apex IS controlling my S026, however it's limited to only controlling ON/OFF of the two channels individually. No dimming control or individual LED color control at this point. I doubt a fixture this cheap will ever have that control, at least not for a long time. For what I'm using it for (frag tank) it's fine. Would be nice to individually control the emitters though, but the blue and white rheostat control knobs work fairly well getting a nice color balance. I run the blue channel a couple hours before and after the whites to simulate the dawn/dusk effect.
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My guess is to much light over it. I suspect it to keep getting lighter in color if it is to much light. Careful with LEDs they r mor powerful then u realize.
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Thanks for your thoughts.
The Toadstool is under Metal Halides, XM 20k lamps in my main display. It came from a friends tank which was growing under metal halides as well, likely more PAR than what my bulbs run - I think he likes to run 10 or 12k bulbs. So I'm not sure that's the reason for the drastic change in color at this point. Could be insufficient NO3 in the tank which I'm investigating at the moment as well.
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Here's a little update for you guys...
I recently purchased an Aussie Elegance Coral. I noticed after it was in the tank a while it was retracting at different parts of the day/night. Upon further investigation, late one night, I noticed a little orange leg... yes LEG, coming out of my elegance. I removed the elegance from the tank in a small container with tank water and to my surprise there was a small Coral Gall Crab living in the coral tissue. I used some tweezers to remove the crab - dipping probably would have been safer but it's all I could think of as I felt the shivers running up my spine! Haha
Prior to removing the coral as I was monitoring the elegance in the tank, I noticed a few small pieces of polyps dropping from the coral. Under the royal blue LEDs you could easily see the legs of the crab fluoresce. So once I had an ID it was actually fairly easy to see it burrowed in the coral.
Now that the elegance is crab free, I'm noticing another pattern. For some reason it closes up as soon as my light cycle begins. It's open and puffed up at night (no lights) but as soon as there's any light it seems to retract. Any ideas?? :idea:
Here's the elegance at night, NO LIGHTS. Pic taken with flash.
And here it is when the blues just start to come on, during sunrise period. It stays retracted during the whole light cycle.
I recently purchased an Aussie Elegance Coral. I noticed after it was in the tank a while it was retracting at different parts of the day/night. Upon further investigation, late one night, I noticed a little orange leg... yes LEG, coming out of my elegance. I removed the elegance from the tank in a small container with tank water and to my surprise there was a small Coral Gall Crab living in the coral tissue. I used some tweezers to remove the crab - dipping probably would have been safer but it's all I could think of as I felt the shivers running up my spine! Haha
Prior to removing the coral as I was monitoring the elegance in the tank, I noticed a few small pieces of polyps dropping from the coral. Under the royal blue LEDs you could easily see the legs of the crab fluoresce. So once I had an ID it was actually fairly easy to see it burrowed in the coral.
Now that the elegance is crab free, I'm noticing another pattern. For some reason it closes up as soon as my light cycle begins. It's open and puffed up at night (no lights) but as soon as there's any light it seems to retract. Any ideas?? :idea:
Here's the elegance at night, NO LIGHTS. Pic taken with flash.
And here it is when the blues just start to come on, during sunrise period. It stays retracted during the whole light cycle.
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Guess this little dude figured he wasn't safe in the display with my BEAST of a Filefish - so he decided to make refuge one of the overflows. It looks translucent because of the indirect lighting, kinda cool to see it's digestive system up close.
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HAHAHAHAHA!!! Awesome shaggss.
You might be right and thanks for the suggestion... Also, going through a little algae bloom since re-doing the tank. The rock I used cooked for probably a year with very little light (just ambient from the display), but now that the rock is under halides it's going through a bloom which is really ticking off a lot of the corals in the tank. I think it's a combo of everything at this point. Ugh...
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your sump room is insane. Your are an organized jedi. god almighty...
I noticed on your conduit run page, you mentioned Melev has a good write up on conduit and sump rooms? could you site a link for me please? i want to relocate my apex setup and never thought of just extending the EB8 Outlets with conduit instead of extension cords.
I noticed on your conduit run page, you mentioned Melev has a good write up on conduit and sump rooms? could you site a link for me please? i want to relocate my apex setup and never thought of just extending the EB8 Outlets with conduit instead of extension cords.
