Troublemaker's 80g DB Frag Forest

[troublemaker]

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[Sawdonkey]

Corals look great. What are they?

 

[troublemaker]

Who knows. I purchased the remainder of a frag system off somebody, they were all from JF, Cherry Corals and Battlecorals, but since they all came brown I really didn't care. The furry green one is RR Excalibur. If I like the color, I buy it, but usually forget the names. I am picking up a Walt Disney tomorrow, I'm sure I will remember that one.

The Radions have made it real easy to get good coloring. Much easier than my lights in the past, from PC, T5, VHO, 250w to 400w, these are by far the easiest thing I have used. It took a while for my Fuge to grow in and We feed very heavy for an LPS/NPS tank that is attached to the same system, so nutrients were pretty high until the Macro Algaes caught up. I don't use GFO or any other non natural nutrient export besides a skimmer so it wasn't a system that matured quickly.

 

[troublemaker]

I have been playing with lights to figure out what I want. Right now this is the color that seems to look the most desirable. Its 14k Phoenix, Blue Plus, and XR30 Pros set at all blue.
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[rockhead]

Looks awesome bro

 

[Sawdonkey]

Looks great. That's a lot of powerheads!

 

[troublemaker]

Looks great. That's a lot of powerheads!

Yes it is, I don't really like them, but I like alot of flow.

 

[Danieldv6]

Are those cross flow or gyres?

 

[troublemaker]

Are those cross flow or gyres?

There are 2 Gyre 130s in the back, two 6055 on the right and a 6055 and 6095 on the left.

 

[troublemaker]

Looks awesome bro

Thanks. The tank is just coming up on the 1 year mark so things are falling into line. The Radions and I unfortunately didn't ever come to any sort of agreement so they are just being tried as supplemental light. Changing back to the MH/T5 light has jump started the growth again, but coloring has definitely faded. It's just a big box of water with a bunch of sticks still, but those sticks seem to be making more sticks.

Actually the LPS tank attached to this system is the show piece right now.

 

[troublemaker]

Here is the other tank.

 

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[troublemaker]

You have to love when your diamond in the rough brown out turns out to be you favorite piece. This guy has blue, green and yellow polyps. I just blasted it with a turkey baster so they are all retracted.


Here it was about a month or so ago, but you can see how much better the color was under Radions than my current MH.

 

[troublemaker]

Here is the temporary replacement for the last Deep Blue tank I will ever own.

 

[adam87]

What happened?

 

[troublemaker]

What happened?

It's having issues keeping the water where it should be.

 

[adam87]

Had that happen to me too, but it was a 220g tank.

 

[troublemaker]

It's amazing what can be done in two hours. A quick trip to Big R, two saw horses, one hanging kit to hang two lights and I have a pretty decent back up until the new tank arrives.