Fluval Chi 6.6 Gallon. First SW tank.

[TurboCamaro]

All finished with that! Nice and clean.

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[TurboCamaro]

Well that last pic was before the loom lol.

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[Dirte_Plumber]

I honestly don't know the temp. The back inch and a half is open on the lid, over the back section to cut down on evap, but still have gas exchange. I don't run a heater but everything seems very happy.

I've since added a Bluetooth controllable LED strip for moonlight. It's also multicolor and multi mode selectable. Works great and allows me to change the backlighting on the light fixture and color of the moonlight. I took a 30 second video of it in color change mode I'll upload to YouTube in a bit.

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I run a fine air-stone, on a timer 30-minutes before temp rises in room and for 4-6 hours depending on heatwave/weeks temps!

Yes, I get little more evaporation. Yet, no ich! No major stress from latest heatwave.

So I check salinity more often and/or add cup of buffered ro water to tank weekly.
***The bubbles just help move the water column helping heat to escape through blowoff at top of Uniquarium/Aio Area.***

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[TurboCamaro]

I run a fine air-stone, on a timer 30-minutes before temp rises in room and for 4-6 hours depending on heatwave/weeks temps!

Yes, I get little more evaporation. Yet, no ich! No major stress from latest heatwave.

So I check salinity more often and/or add cup of buffered ro water to tank weekly.
***The bubbles just help move the water column helping heat to escape through blowoff at top of Uniquarium/Aio Area.***

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Yea I don't have to worry about the water column. The Maxi jet goes straight down and slightly forward to rotate the entire mass of water; there are no dead spots lol.

Once I do a final trim on the lid I'll have slightly higher evap, but much less condensation and temperature.

I have yet to get ich in either one of my tanks.

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[Dirte_Plumber]

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[Dirte_Plumber]

Bio-Tower/Refugium Korallin Modded, not finished Plumbing Fluval 406 to Korallin to Filter of My Marineland Portrait, Pump Upgrade and T-d to Carbon Reactor and Recirculated to Filter Area and to Display!

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[Dirte_Plumber]

That's Not A Skimmer Either, Bubble Top-Off with Slow Venturi Feed Off Displays return pump...
And use it to fill test vials, hydrometer, drip bag acclimation ,etc!

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[TurboCamaro]

Holy crap man! You have more water volume outside the display than inside! That's insane!

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[Dirte_Plumber]

Thanks, I wanted to get the System Proven on A Smaller Setup...Then Move My Whole System and Configuration to A Custom Cube 24 Nano, or Custom 30 Gallon Tall Cube.

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[TurboCamaro]

Update on the Chi.

Was searching for a slightly higher wattage light. Found one local on ebay. 6 leds, 3 white and 3 blue. Modified it to fit inside the lighting fixture I made. Popped the LED board off and put thermal compound for a long life. Removed the reflector for better light spread. Redid the led strips as they were faded from 24/7 use, and replaced the fan for cooling.

Picked up a yellow watchman goby and a few peppermint shrimp. Also a couple redleg hermits. I have some blue hypnea growing from a cheap frag I got in the other tank. Still going strong. Nice coraline on the sides I decided not to scrape off. I like it.

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[TurboCamaro]

Couple more of the new light, leds and fan.

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[TurboCamaro]

Been awhile. Coraline on the sides and back doing nicely. Kenya Trees finally started splitting off. Added the last of the black sand.

I think it looks pretty good with the thick sandbed.

Raised the light in the fixture some more, cause even for an ebay LED this thing puts out too much light. So I raised it and run the focal lens. Seems to be doing much better.

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