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You definitely want warmer range lights. When I was hot and heavy into planted tanks I used a combo of 10k and 6500k (50:50) and am fairly certain that this could be reproduced with LEDs. Check out BAMF aquatics LEDs. Gabe knows his stuff.

He's got an apex he can use.

I've got a spare tank. Let me know.

Outstanding info. Send this man all your money.

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Wouldn't that be kind of expected though ? 6500k is more in the photosynthetically active wavelengths?

Did you grow them with both lights side by side ?

Righteous. I'll keep an eye on it and harass you when your ph is out of whack.

They're gone I think ...

Saying a little prayer to raptor Jesus.

I think I'm in 4.12 ?

What is the make/model of the router ?

Wish I wasn't so far south :/ someone will grab them for sure. TO THE TOP WITH YOU.

When's the last time you've calibrated? I've got quite a bit of 7 and 10 cal solution if you need some.

Did you adjust the amperage screw?

its frustrating during setup, but once its up you'll forget you had problems. Like painting closets

I have 1:1 CW to RB, and i don't find that it is too white. What i really would like to do is to swap in some warmer whites for my cool whites. I might throw in a 2x red/cyan combos as well.

I'm with ya. He must be working.... He hasn't posted since the OP. So what i posit is:

GRIM:

List your equipment and how you wish to control it. Help will follow.

Worth every penny. Don't sweat that its called "jr", it has all the same capabilities as the Aquacontroller. I don't know why they are even making the Aquacontroller any more. Btw, you really don't need the display monitor (sold sep.) if you have an Iphone. I have both and do everything thru the Iphone and never use the display. I found that the additional probes you can add such as ORP, salinity and pH were interesting for about a week then I simply stopped paying attention to them since they really don't tell you what you really want to know about your water parameters - kh, calcium, mg, etc.

Do they make one of those? A controller that will tell you what you really want to know - kh, calcium, mg, etc??? I'm too lazy to test all the time - I just want a machine to tell me if I'm too low or high and how much to add. Anyone got one of those?

Nope The colorimeters from hanna are really your best bet on quick checking.

The tank looks very different from the standard reef tank, but also very nice! Well done.

Yeah, that really sounds like IP assignment issues.

But this is the internet Derrick, where everyone has a correct opinion . Apex, no apex, democrat, republican, christian, muslim, aggie, longorn: Can't we all just get along.

APEX4LIFE

Unusual sump! Can you explain the layout?

DerrickH, something to save you some plug space is that neither your LEDs nor your ecotechs need to be plugged into the DC8. The on/off will be controlled by the WXM and the dimming cables. BAM, hopefully i saved you at least 3 outlets.

What I ended up doing was to manually connect the APEX via ethernet to my router first to do all the setup. That way you can have your options set before you try to tackle the wireless interface part, which is in myopinion the worst part. They really should be integrating wifi into the unit. I'd be willing to bet the next revision has it built in.

just to be safe, I turn off DHCP on the gaming adapter (or in my couse router) AND turn on DHCP on the APEX in addition to issuing it a static IP.

Another trick is that you can just type in apex into the address bar and it should search for your apex and find it.