Hentz 60 SPS Dominant Tank

Tank looks good, I'm glad I was able to see your thread and the beautiful setup you have here!

I love the colors you're getting with the LEDs and the zeo, but man, zeo is too much work for me. I barely remember to feed the fishes 3 pinches of pellets each night, rarely do water changes, and don't always clean my skimmer when it is full. You started seeing reduced PE the day you stopped dosing zeo additives!

Keep an eye out for coral shading and them growing over each other. That is the issue I am having with my acros in my biocube. Too many corals that started as tiny nubs, how could they possibly outgrow and overgrow each other?! Well they do, so be prepared with a big frag rack and to be a bonsai trimming master!

Your setup looks great, and I'm really excited to see how it goes with the 26HDs. I love the 26 and primes, there just isn't a lot of experience with them on SPS tanks. People usually prefer to go overkill and go with like dual 52s, so it's interesting to see an example of right-sizing. Speaking of which, now that I see reefmutt's lighting in his signature, I'm going to go tank-build-surfing and see how he is liking that setup :)
 
Pretty exciting update;

As much as I enjoy my cool little DIY TV Mount for the Hydra 26's, a gentleman here in Vegas was selling his tank. I asked if he'd part was with his Canopy, which had 3 T5 Retrofit 36" with ATI bulbs, a fan to cool them, then a section in the back for his LED's... He said yes :D

Took the canopy home, took the back off, and had to stretch the bottom a tad. It was a perfect fit for a 40 breeder and literally just a hair off for my tank. Got it all squared away and mounted everything! Couldn't be happier. The tank is beautiful with the T5/Hydra 26 HD combo!



 
Don't think I'll need these MP40's anymore.... :p
The Gyre 150 is almost as wide as the depth of my tank!

 
So I found a little issue today.... My back bulkhead was leaking water onto my stand, into my stand, and on top of my EB4 for my Apex!!!! Luckily it was an incredibly slow leak, but enough to make some salt creep and what not.. Thought it was broken, but it was just super loose. I could easily move the plumbing. I fixed it thankfully and it's all good now.
But while I had some water drained, figured I should get a nice little top down snap.
Bubble algae is still an issue and my Fox Face is doing nothing about it, but the corals are looking great!

 
Thanks guys! Loving the tank. Restocked on some Sponge power. I also bought K-Balance and Flatworm Stop from KZ. Hearing it's an amazing combo for growth, color, and strengthening my acros!

Here's some stuff I picked up today. Aqua SD Sunset, Pikachu, Starlight, and some others!


 
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Close up of a few of the new acros!
(Not in order, nor do they match the names of pictures. Just a few of the names I picked up today.)
RR Starlight
Pikachu
FH Blueberry Muffin
FH King Purp
Sunset Milli (Possibly)
Strawberry Shortcake
Hyacinth
WWC Mint Chip
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Went ahead and gave my canopy a revamp!

I was tired of the little pieces of wood on the sides of my Hydra's blocking lights. I also went back to mounting them left-to-right instead of front-to-back. I felt some Acro's weren't getting as much LED lighting. I also moved them as much as possible to the middle of the tank and even got rid of the big ugly side platform things.

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You just don't pass up a good deal...
Running three Hydra 26 HD's now. I think I have plenty of light now.......

 
And here's a nice little update on the full tank!
I finally got around to gluing all my frags down.

 
So ignore the bubble algae.. I'm sure I'll be dealing with it for the rest of my life unless I completely reboot the tank... :(

But anyways, starting to notice some odd coloration on my oldest Acropora in my tank.
Prior to getting this, it was light green with blue tips and pastel polyps. Over my Radion it went bright turquoise. Went under my ATI T5 and it developed a deepish green base with blue tips. Now under my Hydras, blasting it with light, it's developing pink on the tips along with blue!

Here's how it was before and now:
 
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