YRL's 290g Custom Reef tank

sahin said:
Here is Yariels Youtube video embedded:
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This is just an amazing tank. Its full of colour and healthy corals. IMO this tank deserves TOTM. One of the BEST T5 SPS tanks I've seen in a long time. Love the colours you are getting bro.

Are you still using:

5xATI Blue+
2xATI Purple+
1xATI Coral+

Many thanks, and keep up the good work. :D
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Thanks bro.
The lighting still the same it haven change at all I'm thinking to add a reef brite strip to it to get the color to pop more..
 
Yariel0527 said:
Thanks bro.
The lighting still the same it haven change at all I'm thinking to add a reef brite strip to it to get the color to pop more..
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You will love the Reefbrite Royal Blue LED strip. Your corals will look awesome under the LED's only or with the Reefbrite and a Blue+ and Purple+. With all the T5's on, it will add a nice pop and overall colours will look better! :D

Go for it bro. :thumbsup:
 
I'm thinking about adding an LED strip also.
I ended up getting that same calcium reactor. Love it!
I'm also thinking about adding another Purple + like you. Do you think the p+ is one of the keys that brings out some of your nice colors?
Right now I have:
B+
C+
P+
B+
C+
ATI Actinic
B+
B+
I may replace acintic with P+ and add LED strip.
Also in my LED strip reading... You may want to wait a bit for Buildmyled. They are soon coming out with an actinic strip that will have ability to adjust individual LED colors. The current BMled actinic strip has some 405nm led for extra pop.
Right not I'm leaning more toward the Buildmyled actinic strip vs. the reefbrite. both will mount on side of ATI sunpower.
Something to check out anyway. I like the look of the Reefbrite hardware better though.. seems cleaner/less bulk. (and cheaper)
 
The P+ it's definitely a key but the real key it's the bulbs layout that way I set it up its just amazing I tried few others different ways with the same bulbs just changed to a different position and it doesn't looks the same..

Av8bluewater said:
I'm thinking about adding an LED strip also.
I ended up getting that same calcium reactor. Love it!
I'm also thinking about adding another Purple + like you. Do you think the p+ is one of the keys that brings out some of your nice colors?
Right now I have:
B+
C+
P+
B+
C+
ATI Actinic
B+
B+
I may replace acintic with P+ and add LED strip.
Also in my LED strip reading... You may want to wait a bit for Buildmyled. They are soon coming out with an actinic strip that will have ability to adjust individual LED colors. The current BMled actinic strip has some 405nm led for extra pop.
Right not I'm leaning more toward the Buildmyled actinic strip vs. the reefbrite. both will mount on side of ATI sunpower.
Something to check out anyway. I like the look of the Reefbrite hardware better though.. seems cleaner/less bulk. (and cheaper)
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Renovations to the Tank....

Renovations to the Tank....

Went to open the doors to do some maintenance on my sump and both of my stand doors collapsed. so I decided to do them all over I wanted to keep the same idea of the doors opening to the side but at the same time I was tired of looking at that boring color I had in on my stand so ask my self what would really make me happy and just came to my mind a Lamborghini LOL. any ways I took the doors out and start making my plan for the new renovation my friend came to visit later that day and I was explaining my crazies ideas and all I was thinking and from no where this idea came out I know I can't afford to have a Lamborghini I have a friend that owns a body shop that its here helping me to get some Ideas so I told my self I have everything here now put it all together and told my friend why not to incorporate the Lamborghini to my fish tank and this is what we came out with.
we decided to paint the tank all white and the doors Lamborghini Orange...
Here's the process..

Cut the Doors and sand them




We primed the doors with some heavy duty all weather primer few coat of it to get the wood to suck as much as possible so we don't lose much paint



Here are the primed doors sanded and all ready dry..


Next step is moving the doors to the painting boot to give them the first base coat which consist in a orange based paint to not use too much of that $800 gallon of paint..


 
I bought a fish from NYAquatics and quarantine the fish for over a month after the quarantine and a detailed observation I placed him in my tank and guess what he was still infected from head to tail with I don't know what in this planet but yes I did lost 4 yellow tangs, my female purple tang yes the one that where spawning still have the male my hybrid Achilles to be exact I lost 19 fish just for adding this fish...

Arnel0387 said:
What happened to your 3x yellow tangs and 2x purple tangs? Are your angels nipping?
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Doors look nice! :thumbsup: Did it cost you much to get them painted? For my next tank I will be making the stand myself and thought about getting the doors painted by a car body painter.

Sorry about the fish loss bro. Thats just crazy losing so many fish after adding one fish...
 
It was done at my friend body shop so it didn't costs me anything I just paid for the paint.

sahin said:
Doors look nice! :thumbsup: Did it cost you much to get them painted? For my next tank I will be making the stand myself and thought about getting the doors painted by a car body painter.

Sorry about the fish loss bro. Thats just crazy losing so many fish after adding one fish...
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Yariel0527 said:
I bought a fish from NYAquatics and quarantine the fish for over a month after the quarantine and a detailed observation I placed him in my tank and guess what he was still infected from head to tail with I don't know what in this planet but yes I did lost 4 yellow tangs, my female purple tang yes the one that where spawning still have the male my hybrid Achilles to be exact I lost 19 fish just for adding this fish...
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Wow sorry to hear that, but I love your new fish collection now! Can you post more pics of your sump area?
 
Nice fish photos. What camera are you using? You mentioned a new camera on page 2. It takes some good shots and good video as well.

Can I please request a TOP DOWN video of your corals? - That would look AMAZING! :D
 
I use a Canon Powershot D20..
I will try to grab a video its a little tough I never done it because of my T5 Fixture mess it up All the time If someone knows how to do it please let me know..

sahin said:
Nice fish photos. What camera are you using? You mentioned a new camera on page 2. It takes some good shots and good video as well.

Can I please request a TOP DOWN video of your corals? - That would look AMAZING! :D
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Yariel0527 said:
I use a Canon Powershot D20..
I will try to grab a video its a little tough I never done it because of my T5 Fixture mess it up All the time If someone knows how to do it please let me know..
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Thanks, you just need a top down viewer or even any plastic lid etc.

Eg:

This is a DIY.
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Here is my own DIY:
TOPDOWN_zpsb4ee5604.jpg

Mine looks like total crap but works well, can get images like this:
DSC_1801_zpsf971605b.jpg


This is a product you can buy:
top-down-port-hole.jpg


You are good at DIY with plastics etc, so you can easily make one of these bro. :)

Your corals have amazing colour, from the top it will look even better and a video will be awesome. :)
 
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