Scott's 270 aka Project Mayhem

[Nick James]

I am picking up a shallow frag tank as a stand alone coral QT in a couple days myself. I found red bugs a few weeks back. Nothing seems affected yet but luckily it is not something more serious and nothing new until the coral QT is oprational!

 

[Scythanith]

Im just really hesitant to set up a whole separate system. I know I have to though. There is too much $$$ in my system now.

 

[Scythanith]

Re-did some rock work as the pokerstar and mystic montipora had taken over the right side of my tank.

 

[Scythanith]

 

[Scythanith]

 

[Scythanith]

I should also mention I added some reefbrite XHO LED strips to my frag system. Hence the pop

 

[Lilmatty5dimes]

Your pics are incredible.

 

[Scythanith]

Thanks, there is always room for improvement though!

 

[Scythanith]

A couple new shots.

 

[VanJuKy]

Very nice!

 

[yifan917]

Very nice indeed!

 

[dave.m]

Whoa! Is that a Liopropoma? Really nice pics, Scott.

Dave.M

 

[Scythanith]

Thanks everyone. Hey Dave, yup it's a candy basslet (Liopropoma carmabi). Had him for a couple years now.

 

[scar79]

Beautiful shots, especially of the candy. Spectacular fish, and representative of how they look in person. Many shots I've seen of them don't capture that almost fluorescent deep blue/purple which looks so cool in contrast with the orange body.

Great thread, don't know how I've missed it for so long! I hate when I starting reading these and the OP never posts a real update after the first batch of corals go in or the tank plainly crashes. Glad to see you're still rolling. The tank is looking beautiful.

 

[Scythanith]

Thanks scar. I always try to be honest with my images. If I am playing around with the images I usually say as much in the post.

I see you mention Radion & T5 on your system. Did you start that way or end up adding the T5's?

 

[Nick James]

I wish there was a like button... I'd have broken it on your thread though...

 

[Scythanith]

haahaa thanks Nick! Smugmug is down right now and all my image links are broken. Something to do with the cloudflare hosting and virus.

 

[scar79]

Thanks scar. I always try to be honest with my images. If I am playing around with the images I usually say as much in the post.

I see you mention Radion & T5 on your system. Did you start that way or end up adding the T5's?

I added the T5 after the fact. I never liked the level shadowing and how dim LEDs appear despite how much light they're actually providing. T5 solves both grievances. I can't speak to the direct affect on the corals/growth because I added them when I restarted my system

 

[Scythanith]

I think if I were to buy new mitras LX7's I'd buy 4 instead of the 3 I have now.

 

[Scythanith]