The Reef Central Corner Club Thread

[L98-Z]

I think I'm going to go the route of 4 heatsinks. Two going down the back sides and two going diagonal across the middle section. I'm looking at around 519 sq inches of heat sink coverage. Not sure how many LEDs that is yet, but the current plan is to make them dimmable as well.

 

[L98-Z]

I think I'm going to go the route of 4 heatsinks. Two going down the back sides and two going diagonal across the middle section. I'm looking at around 519 sq inches of heat sink coverage. Not sure how many LEDs that is yet, but the current plan is to make them dimmable as well.

I'm looking at around $900 after all the drivers, heatsinks, and LEDs are purchased. Below is the general ideal on the heatsink layout.

 

[li mike]

Hi Guys,

MY name is MIke, I am new to this site and club. I have a 92 corner and cant get enough of it. I also have a 140 but all my time and $ have been going into the 92. I am very much looking forward to reading your threads and posting some myself.

This is a picture of my tank,

 

[Michael]

hi-mike thats beautiful, i love the open top as well and the light,have you got a sump under there? oh and welcome to the club

 

[boret]

li mike welcome to The Reef Central Corner Club Thread

L98-Z I think the "A" slabs are a bit of a waste. It all depends on the rock and coral placement though. In my tank I have very few thing that need light that close to the glass. The specimens placed on the sides grow inwards towards the center. If I look from the top my rock is like an inverse W. There is rock on both sides and in the center.

Remember that the lenses on the LEDs give you a 30 to 60 degree spread (depending on the lens you get). You might be better off doing a central square and placing 2 VHOs on the side. Make them all white for the LEDs and use the Super Actinic of the VHOs for Blue and fluorescent pop.

You can always throw in a few blues in the LEDs but I would do something like 90% White 10% Blue. I will make a drawing and post it to see if it makes more sense.

 

[L98-Z]

li mike welcome to The Reef Central Corner Club Thread

L98-Z I think the "A" slabs are a bit of a waste. It all depends on the rock and coral placement though. In my tank I have very few thing that need light that close to the glass. The specimens placed on the sides grow inwards towards the center. If I look from the top my rock is like an inverse W. There is rock on both sides and in the center.

Remember that the lenses on the LEDs give you a 30 to 60 degree spread (depending on the lens you get). You might be better off doing a central square and placing 2 VHOs on the side. Make them all white for the LEDs and use the Super Actinic of the VHOs for Blue and fluorescent pop.

You can always throw in a few blues in the LEDs but I would do something like 90% White 10% Blue. I will make a drawing and post it to see if it makes more sense.

I plan to put a rock wall on the back glass, in which case, there will be a decent amount of coral placement across the walls. I will also probably use optics there since it is so close to the glass. I'm not sure I'll use optics in the middle section.

 

[boret]

OK what about this.... You start of with a Rectangle, cut it into 2 triangles and placed them in the canopy. The difficult part is getting the rectangular heatsink cut, but maybe heatsinkusa.com might be willing to do it.

Something like this:

 

[BackSpin]

Been awhile

Been awhile

Hello all it has been a while but have been out of town and now am back thought I post a current pic and keep updating my build

 

[boret]

Hello all it has been a while but have been out of town and now am back thought I post a current pic and keep updating my build View attachment 93872

Oh man, that is looking sweet, but you better take out that huge vertebrate from the tank before it does some damage!

 

[BackSpin]

Thanks I will, I'll add more pics as things get done..

 

[li mike]

Hi Guys,

Thank you for the nice words and worm welcome. I do have a sump, I will post some more detailed pictures of coral, fish and set up.

Thanks again
Mike

 

[gawf4fun]

Hello all it has been a while but have been out of town and now am back thought I post a current pic and keep updating my build View attachment 93872

Very nice backspin. My tank is remarkably similar to yours and when I was doing my build, I put my 6 year old son in a wet suit and took the same photo. Couldn't get him to do my bulkheads though...:lol: I wish I could find that picture.

Anyway, looks great so far. What are dimensions of the tank? Mine are 48" from back corner to edge, 12" on the edges and 60+ across the face. I've guesstimated the volume at around 180 gallon.

Keep posting pics..

mark

 

[lotusstar]

Hey guys,
so been a little while since I posted last. I haven't figured out what's up with my tank yet. Still seems to be a mystery. It am now getting cyano algae problems all in the sand bed. Not sure why, the tank still reads 0 phosphates, tested my RODI water as well to see if maybe something is wrong there but it reads 0 as well. I changed out the rodi filters like a month ago or so I think it's been now? And that's when the algae problem showed up.
My light bulb was changed just a few months ago. I still can't figure out why my fish can't seem to live in the tank, all I have is 1 lonely clown that has somehow lived through all these mysterious death problems. And my corals are still doing great, in fact my hammerhead looks like it's nearly doubled in size.
Anyway, hadn't posted in awhile so thought I would stop by and say hi and make the small update.

 

[boret]

Hey Mark, when are we getting updated pictures of your tank??

Hi Lotusstar, I am not sure if I asked you last time, but, how random is your flow inside the tank? Do you have a large cleaning crew (snails, hermits, etc)? Do you suffer from low pH?

 

[gawf4fun]

Hey Mark, when are we getting updated pictures of your tank??

Funny you should ask...

I haven't been taking bunches of pictures lately as I've been travelling and doing a lot of home repairs, prep for holidays, etc. However, I did recently pick up a blonde naso tang to complement my purple tang (nice color you have there Mr. Purple).:jester: Here's a pic of him as well as the most recent full tank shot from October I think it was.

I'm having to do all sorts of fragging to ward off predatory coral fights. I also added another 30 pounds of sand, which sadly has started a secondary cycling which has caused some cyano and diatom blooms. Ugly stuff which I am fighting with increased powerhead spraying of rocks, more frequent water changes and a healthy dose of patience.

 

[lotusstar]

Boret,
Lets see, flow I have 2 K3's in the front corners pointed in, and 2 Tunze 6025's in the back corner. One on each side of the overflow pointing in toward the front glass. Seems to be a fairly random flow, the corals wave around a good little bit. The return is also directed toward the front glass.
As far as cleaning crew I do have a pretty big crew, bought a big package from reef cleaners I think is where I got them. Lots of variety of snails and crabs, and also added about half a dozen peppermint shrimp that apparently didn't care much for aiptasia hehe. Finally took care of that problem a few months ago with aiptasia X, that stuff worked great.
Don't suffer from low PH either. It's bottoms out around 8 if I test before the lights come on and with the lights on testing is around 8.2.

 

[BackSpin]

Thanks, mine is 48" 12" 48" and 30" high and is 200 gallons to the drop have filled it with 5gallon buckets to see that is empty no rock or sand.. I would say yours would be more unless it is 24" high then your probaly right on the money.. The shape is nice but has its challanges.. :fish1:

Very nice backspin. My tank is remarkably similar to yours and when I was doing my build, I put my 6 year old son in a wet suit and took the same photo. Couldn't get him to do my bulkheads though...:lol: I wish I could find that picture.

Anyway, looks great so far. What are dimensions of the tank? Mine are 48" from back corner to edge, 12" on the edges and 60+ across the face. I've guesstimated the volume at around 180 gallon.

Keep posting pics..

mark

 

[boret]

Looking great Mark!! As always Fantastic tank and a beautiful fish you got there!

lotusstar, I really can't think of anything else. Corals are more difficult to keep than fish and it seems to be the other way around for you. I always go back to the same hypothesis, poisoning. Something chemical that affects your fish and not the corals. Algae is not a "bad" issue, just an ugly one. Is there a way you can maybe post a recent pic of the whole tank?
Fish will survive larger salinity, pH and temp fluctuations than corals, so if the corals stay alive you are having none of those swings.
Oxygen depletion would also affect the corals.....

 

[reefscape15]

Hey everyone. I hope you all had a nice time over the holiday. I just had a couple pics to post. I cleaned up the tank really well for when we had company coming over, and soaked the powerheads in vinegar and removed the ugly frag racks that were in there and placed the frags around the tank. It's not too much different than my last FTS, but it looks much nicer without the frag racks obstructing the view!

 

[gawf4fun]

Thanks, mine is 48" 12" 48" and 30" high and is 200 gallons to the drop have filled it with 5gallon buckets to see that is empty no rock or sand.. I would say yours would be more unless it is 24" high then your probaly right on the money.. The shape is nice but has its challanges.. :fish1:

Yep, my height is 24". Deeper than that and I'd have a real tough time reaching the corners.

Thanks Boret. I appreciate the compliment. I'm starting to turn the corner on the diatoms and cycling so I'm excited to see what bare spots I can fill in next month. :eek1: