Wazzel's mostly SPS 120

Congrats on the successful tansfer. Looks like you will need a new larger tank very soon😊! Those corals will outgrow this tank real quick!
How are the four lights working out? Do you think the four is necessary?
 
Mike de Leon said:
Congrats on the successful tansfer. Looks like you will need a new larger tank very soon��! Those corals will outgrow this tank real quick!
How are the four lights working out? Do you think the four is necessary?
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Thanks, yes things are growing well again and I have started to pull things from the rock work already. Wife and I are looking to build a smaller house and she agreed to getting a bigger tank. Something in the 250-300 gallon range.

The four lights work well. I think I could have used three, but I had the four units on hand. I have the at about 65% full power. Have very little shading.
 
markalot said:
Hi Mark,

need pictures of the pikachu. :) Always fun getting more corals, even if there's no room.
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Here you go, just a little frag a few days after being introduced to my tank. This is my day one photo for our reef club grow out challenge.

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I am going to be adding a 50 gallon frag tank to the system. I scored a used 48x18x12 rimless from the same manufacturer as my main tank for a good price. It still needs to be picked up. Going to make a matching stand for it that will also hold the top off tank that currently sits on the floor, and the equipment and supplies that are in the 20 long stand from the frag tank that was tied into the 60.
 
I lost my red dragon frag. I have a large stylo on a PVC collar. It fell over and landed on my red dragon frag and killed it. Bummer.
 
That is a good looking frag for the competition.

Is it really multi hued like it appears or is that shading from the lighting?

Regardless it is a sweet looking piece.
 
kevlow said:
That is a good looking frag for the competition.

Is it really multi hued like it appears or is that shading from the lighting?

Regardless it is a sweet looking piece.
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It is hued like that, but suspect it is just ****ed from the fragging. It was fragged just a few days before I picked it up.
 
Looking great! Love the depth of the tank and how low the corals sit in spots. Looking forward to future updates.
 
I have a question for you as I know you have something to tell you how much power your using on your fixtures but I was wondering if you would be able to figure out what percentage a color would have to be to equal out to a AB+ color schedule on a regular hydra 52 non HD. The regular hydra 52 has 16 cool whites, 12 royal and 8 deep blue compared to the HD which has 12 of each color . Hope you can help me out bud. Tank looks awesome as always!!!!
 
Reeftub said:
I have a question for you as I know you have something to tell you how much power your using on your fixtures but I was wondering if you would be able to figure out what percentage a color would have to be to equal out to a AB+ color schedule on a regular hydra 52 non HD. The regular hydra 52 has 16 cool whites, 12 royal and 8 deep blue compared to the HD which has 12 of each color . Hope you can help me out bud. Tank looks awesome as always!!!!
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I can give it a shot. Do you have the levels for the AB+ used on the HD so I can have a starting point.
 
Almost fried my pumps yesterday. My smart ATO was on the frits and acting funny. I had picked up a Tunze osmolator with the intent of swapping out, but the tubing is a different size so I put it off until I could get an adapter from the supplied line to 1/4". I got up to the tank making some funny sounds yesterday. Turns out the smart ATO finally died during the night. Completely dead that is. It was not even giving the low water alarm. Fortunately the pump compartment of my sump is large, but my pumps were sucking air. I dumped enough water in to get the pumps submerged and got the osmolator on line, but not through the kalk stirrer. When I got home from work yesterday I used some Teflon tape to adapt the 1/4" tubing to the tunze collar. It looks to be working for now, but I will probably still need an adapter coupling eventually.
 
Here we go. Disclaimers first.

I could not find the LED specs for the HD so I made the assumption the diodes are of the same wattage as the non-HD. If anyone can supply me the diode wattage I will update the spread sheet. My goal was to match the power of each channel and the percent mix. It does not quite match exactly. The deep blue has only 8 diodes on the non-HD and 12 on the HD. Since the AB+ runs that channel at 90%, you just can not get there on that channel.

Anyway - here are the settings as close as can be achieved
W-18
RB - 90
DB - 100
V - 80
UV - 80
R - 25
G - 25

This uses 49.6% percent of the total power. The output of each channel is close to the HD, except the DB which is about 1/3 less (48 vs 65 watts)

I played with the power setting to get the mix the same and came up with this.

W - 14
RB - 67
DB - 100
V - 60
UV - 60
R - 19
G -19

this is 39.3% percent of total power.
 
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this is what I'm trying to replicate and the G3 has equal amounts of leds for white, blue and royal. My thoughts are that the led counts have to the same for this to work and achieve same as the G3 so the regular hydra 52 took 4 blue LEDs and added 4 white leds so I'm trying to find that percentage I should run on the white and blue to equal out. Which looks like you close with your percentages. I would have to drop the % down on whites below 24 and lower the Royal % to be even with the blue output. Do I make sense lol I think I confused myself a bit.
 
Is that power graph for a hydra or radion? What model? Going from a radion to a hydra would be a little more difficult, but if I got the diode data on the units I can try. Just be aware that equal number of diodes does not necessarily mean equal power. The diodes could be of different wattage. Same for the power slider bars. Just because the all say 100% does not mean each channel is producing the same amount of light.

My settings are based on the data from Hentz. The first set is trying to match the power and mix, but it does not quite work. The second get the mix right, but does not match the power. If you are going to or are running less than full power now the second might work out for you.
 
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