LED Biocube 32 work in progress!!
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hope you get your white lime worked out!
I'm keeping my bluefish for a while but the apex is fun to play with.
i only have the vortch module and it took a while to get dialed in.
ill probably get the 8 port energy bar next but dealing with a heat issue and dont want to get a chiller.
your pics above helped! my nanobox didnt have a fan so your pic will help me wire in the original fan
I'm keeping my bluefish for a while but the apex is fun to play with.
i only have the vortch module and it took a while to get dialed in.
ill probably get the 8 port energy bar next but dealing with a heat issue and dont want to get a chiller.
your pics above helped! my nanobox didnt have a fan so your pic will help me wire in the original fan
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I have the Apex all dialed in for dawn/dusk/night, thinking the Apex adapter I have, has a faulty channel 2 hence why my white/lime aren't working, see what Dave thinks. I love the Vortech module and fusion makes changes fast. glad I could help. Me and LQT (Thanks again) spent hours last night trouble shooting my light issue.
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Time for a lil update, not much to report lost my first clown a month or 2 back. Have a clown and royal gramma in QT.
Never got the old lights dialed in always to blue and almost all of my rastas, so went the topless route with an xr15 G4 pro and wow it's amazing and with the apex module it's a breeze to set it up.
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Never got the old lights dialed in always to blue and almost all of my rastas, so went the topless route with an xr15 G4 pro and wow it's amazing and with the apex module it's a breeze to set it up.
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Super easy, there are 3 hinge pins, that you can separate by pulling them apart. once the are pulled apart you just lift the hood off.
I have noticed the tank stays much cooler haven't been over 78.5 since taking the hood off, before use to get to almost 80, and evaporation is much higher than with the lid. But these Ecotech lights are absolutely amazing, should have gone this route to begin with.
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They were the same size mistake on my part... They were fighting for dominance is my guess. Took him back to the LFS so try again...
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Update time, so everything is going well, the new light is amazing, my Rastas are coming back finally. The toxic zoas are filling out, my gods armor zoas aren't doing much for reasons unknown. The royal gramma is doing well thus far. 2 hammers are filling out nicely. Also picked up a dragon soul favia last weekend.
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So about a month ago I added a fuge to chamber 2, 2 bottles of AlgaGen tibse pods, then after 2 weeks added a Red Mandarin. So far so good, he's eating pods and will eat frozen Mysis shrimp too. Looking into making a baby brine shrimp feeder for him as well.
Question I have is with the fuge should I still run Purogen and Chemipure elite or something different? Thanks! Pics to follow!
Question I have is with the fuge should I still run Purogen and Chemipure elite or something different? Thanks! Pics to follow!
ughhh my eyes from those giant unrotated pictures....
That's great that the mandarin is eating frozen mysis! Great sign for long term stability and health!
If you've got a fuge that is growing chaeto and/or another algae, and you're regularly pruning it back and throwing it out, then I wouldn't bother to run purigen (which is usually used to remove nitrates). The Chemipure is mostly carbon, which will remove some of the yellowing compounds released by algae, so whether you continue to run it or not is up to you.
I'm running carbon (chemipure elite) right now because I just did a heavy duty water change, scraped a ton of bubble algae out, and generally disturbed the heck out of my corals and sand bed, so I'm sure it released a lot of chemical compounds into the water. I don't usually run any chemical filtration of any sort, just skimming and occasional water changes.
That's great that the mandarin is eating frozen mysis! Great sign for long term stability and health!
If you've got a fuge that is growing chaeto and/or another algae, and you're regularly pruning it back and throwing it out, then I wouldn't bother to run purigen (which is usually used to remove nitrates). The Chemipure is mostly carbon, which will remove some of the yellowing compounds released by algae, so whether you continue to run it or not is up to you.
I'm running carbon (chemipure elite) right now because I just did a heavy duty water change, scraped a ton of bubble algae out, and generally disturbed the heck out of my corals and sand bed, so I'm sure it released a lot of chemical compounds into the water. I don't usually run any chemical filtration of any sort, just skimming and occasional water changes.
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Thanks ReefWreck!!
I know the pics are outta control... smh
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Today the tank hit it's 1 yr milestone lots of things have changed in the past yr with the tank. Been doing weekly 4g water changes switched to red sea pro salt 4-6 months ago. Wanted to share parameters and a few pics...
Salinity: 1.025
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 1-2 ppm. Red sea
Phosphate: 0.12. Red sea
Mg: 1380-1400. Red sea
Kh: 9.6. Red sea
Ca: 450. Red sea
The pro salt was been amazing at bring the big 3 to needed levels without having to dose anything.
Within the last month I've been running a small fuge in chamber 2 with chaeto, mostly for a pod safe haven. In doing so I removed purigen, I have noticed in the last week or so the I'm getting so long hair algae, will continue to monitor nitrate and phosphate.
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Salinity: 1.025
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 1-2 ppm. Red sea
Phosphate: 0.12. Red sea
Mg: 1380-1400. Red sea
Kh: 9.6. Red sea
Ca: 450. Red sea
The pro salt was been amazing at bring the big 3 to needed levels without having to dose anything.
Within the last month I've been running a small fuge in chamber 2 with chaeto, mostly for a pod safe haven. In doing so I removed purigen, I have noticed in the last week or so the I'm getting so long hair algae, will continue to monitor nitrate and phosphate.
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Thanks TC, yours is coming along nicely as well!!
So I started with a fuge basket in the back, added chaeto. Waited a week or two, to be sure there was enough nutrients for it to grow and survive. After which I bought 1 bottle of tibse pods from marine depot. Waited about a week and saw nothing in terms of pod population increase. So I purchased another bottle. A day before the second bottle arrived there were pods all over the glass. So I added the entire 2nd bottle to the fuge. ( First bottle I split between the sand bed and the fuge.) Now almost a month after adding the Mandarin, there are till plenty of pods on the glass sand and rocks. I just purchased a 3rd bottle to be safe. Will start hatching brine shrimp soon as well. He is still skinny, but he's filling out nicely.
I have the intank fuge and media rack in chamber 2, I'm just running floss on the top and chemipure elite in the bottom.
Glad this has been helpful, I learned a lot the same, from other threads!
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Thanks!! Congrats on the mandarin and fuge success. I'm on my 3rd load of macro - I'm using the middle section of the intank media basket, but I'm debating pulling the skimmer from the second half of 2 and replacing with the fuge basket to run more macro.
I keep encountering people going skimmerless in their BC's.
Congrats again on all the growth!
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I keep encountering people going skimmerless in their BC's.
Congrats again on all the growth!
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