Fluval edge update!

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Pvillarraga

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So my edge has been up and running for about 4 months now. I have an Ultrabrite reed led hood for lighting. I have a hydor pico 180 powerhead.

Livestock includes:
True perc clown
Oranged striped goby
Maxima clam
Open brain coral
Candy cane coral
Frogspawn
GSP
Xenia tree
Zoanthids
Acans
Button polyps

Any suggestions are appreciated, I want to do something with the waterflow to improve it and make it more natural!
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No way. You haven't seen mine. My anemone keeps moving so I just have everything everywhere lol.

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Lol I got some algae going to. I'm waiting on a order from reefs2go to ship out tomorrow matter fact. But mine looks way bad compared to yours right now. Ha-ha

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It's not just lights though cause I have leds super bright. But I am overfeeding some I believe and need to change the timer on my lights to cut back a couple hours.

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We have an led fixture with 8 3w leds and today i bypassed 2 so now there's only 6 because i notice the Coraline receding and starting to bleach in areas.
 
I run the light for 7-8 hours sorry I do have clean up crew 2 snails 4 hermits, I blow the rocks with a turkey baster everytime I do a water change. The water flow helps also as well as the sand sifting goby
 
Wow I never heard of coralline bleaching Lol. But I actually don't think that's bad. I ordered a custom light built in hood and I have a finnex ray 2 on front cause I wanted even more light but it might be little to intense. But everything seems fine so far. I just wish this anemone would settle so I can straighten the tank out. I might need to scape my rocks over and rearrange. Idk but anyways, I think the tank looks great so keep up the good work!

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Personally depending on how much I feed I'll do 10-15% water change either every 5-7 days. I don't have an exact schedule like some people. Lol.

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Sorry to stray off your topic lol we are just kinda new and usually don't get any answers when we ask questions on forums. The tank does look great maybe a suggestion would be some cool moonlight unless you already have that covered.
 
The light I have has a moonlight setting but I may get additional ones, definitely on my list. Did you order the Ultrabrite reef hood?
 
Well my custom hood actually has blues built in as well but since I am using a coralife plug timer I just bought some led strips off eBay and they are hooked up with a 12v school adapter. I'll show you. Just don't laughter cause like I said tank is looking crazy right now.

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Bad quality taken with my tablet but they actually are bluer than the pic shows. These are 5050 blue led strips 6 leds each.

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No it was too expensive at the time so i decided to make my own light. Well after it was all said and done it would have only been a little bit more to buy the ultra brite hood. Oh well i got a sense of accomplishment from building my lights lol.
 
Do you have a link for the led strips? I tried what everyone told me to do which was get a led night light from walmart. Epic fail not even enough light lol.
 
Heck it's nothing wrong with that. I'm just a little lazy when it comes to some things ha-ha but those are the lights I bought. :p

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