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The lights are 3.5" off surface and the tank is about 23" deep. I just left the light on the same setting its been on for a while when I moved them over. I'll prob turn them up after a month or two once I make sure the new tank is doin good and the new corals acclimate

I got the 360we ones, I think I'm at like 40% color and 60% intensity

Funny how pretty much every other fish went in there lol

Hey Jim! I didn't realize you were using a kessil as well until your post. Not sure if you got your light setting where you want it but when I have ever had issues in the past with light, brightwell aquatics "revive" works wonders. It's worth the investment imo!

Mine seemed to sit idle for about a month, then started to plate out at the bottom, then I got a new tank so we'll see what it does now I guess

One of the reasons I went with 4 lights rather than 2 or 3 is for the shading. With the kessils the light comes from a single point and you get shading on the bottom sides of corals and the ones on the sides of the tank. Hopefully with more light I can prevent my corals from having dead spots

I was getting a lot of micro bubbles in the sump so I'm going to add a filter sock until I get more lr for the sump. This is the same sump I had in my 60 but the first chamber was full of rock wich helped with bubbles. I was looking online and it looks like mesh bags work well too without catching too much and causing nitrate issues. Other than that I do a 5g water change every Friday when I get off my day job before i go to work at night it's just a bad habit lol.

I've had 2 turbo snails in my old tank but I feel like adding more fish I'll need something for the sand so I added 2 nessarius snails as well as a conch snail.

Do you have any wrasses or fish that eat bugs? I was going to go back and look but your build thread is 59 pages long lol. The corals are looking good! Your lantana grew in a random shape!

Time to invest in a fish trap lol?

We want a pic of your yellow lantana and the Ty's echinada! Or at least I do...

Pretty sure no triggers are reef safe other than the blue throat trigger. My buddy mike had one and might be able to give more info but other than his I've never seen one in a reef tank.

Tank looks sweet! An anthias school would be awesome, if I had a canopy id put an auto feeder on so I could add them. I like what you did on the right side of the stand for the controller and power strips

Got a pretty sweet $20 frag at rca, they have quite a few good ones. My wife really likes garf bonsai and this looked pretty close to me.

Alright so today I changed my rocks a little bit, got the wires I needed for the lighs and cleaned up wiring a little bit. On my apex I'm running 4 kessils, a 300w heater, my mag 9.5 and my two doser pumps. I think the connection from the apex screen to the apex because every time I move it the screen turns off for like 10 mins. I also bought a glass thermometer because the apex seems like the temp is off and it confirmed the apex is off by 3-4 degrees (or me and the thermometer are wrong)

There will be more wire management to come!

I really am trying to go to the Texas coral fest or whatever it's called next weekend to get some Jason fox frags but I can't get off work, I'm 95% sure I'm going to quit my evening/weekend job if they don't give me off since working on Sunday's is rediculous anyways

Yep I should have done more reading As to the maintenance of the gyre before I got it, they don't just tell you to soak it in vinegar, you are supposed to completely disassemble the darn thing.

I just got back from the hardware store, I got longer auxiliary cables for the kessils, wire managers, longer hoses for dosing pumps and glue for the rocks. Guess I get to spend another whole day messing with the tank again

I moved everything into tank, I don't liked rock work too much so it will probably change tomorrow but here's what it looks like as of right now. I will clean up wires and post pics of sump tomorrow. My 2 week old gyre went out already after being in the tank about 4 hours. The impeller bushing stripped out so I just ordered new ones, I hope they come soon I'll be using an mp10 until it arrives.

All the cool guys have done it so I think Ima make a build thread. I'm starting a new tank again, hopefully it's the last new tank for a very long time. My house is upside down with the living room and kitchen on the 2nd floor and the bedrooms downstairs. I want the tank where everyone will see it so the tank is in the dining/beer pong area upstairs. I have been skeptical about putting a big tank in the house since its not on the ground floor but through a lot of reading it seems I should be fine with a 90 gallon. I have done multiple tanks in the past and will stick with the tried and true ways that have worked for me all along.

I have been planning on upgrading for a while so I have been stuffing my 60 gallon full of rock as well as the sump to get everything seeded. I'm sure my tang will love being able to have space to swim again. I plan to use about 50% of my sand and do the rest new with the Fiji pink live sand.

Flow: mag 9.5 return and maxspect gyre in tank

Lighting: 4 x Kessil a360w-e

Corals:

SPS:

Blue Digi

Garf Bonsai

ORA Hawkins Echinata

ORA Joe The Coral

ORA Pearlberry

ORA Setosa

ORA Tricolor Valida

ORA Yellow Lantana Montipora

PC Rainbow Acropora

Purple Pink Prostrata

Rainbow Millepora

Rainbow Nasuta

Red Dragon

Rommels Watermelon

Strawberry Shortcake

Tyree Pink Lemonade

Soft corals:

Green and Purple Frogspawn

Zoanthids:

Tyree Space Monster

Fish:

5 x chromis

Flame Hawkfish

Melanuris Wrasse

Yellow Tang

I am using the 150, I set the tank up today and love it. It's dialed way back though I think I'm about 40% on it

Like the title says I'm selling my 60 gallon rimless tank and stand. I took it down today, I can put up more pics tomorrow after I clean it. Only pic I have now is from it running. Stand is stained a dark brown color. $400 takes tank and stand, $600 takes tank, stand, mp10esw, ehiem 1260 return pump and 150w heater

Happy bday bud, lmk if your giving out birthday corals....

Have you ever tried the poly filter? It changes different colors if it pulls certain things out of the water, always though it was a cool way to find a mystery problem lol

sold

You sure got a clean sand bed lol

I'll be following along. I'm setting up my 90 tomorrow maby I can get some good ideas I got the gyre and really like it In my 60, I'll have to let you know how it does in the 90

1. Test at least once a month

2. Calibrate ph probe

3. Set up protein skimmer

4. Find goldflake angel that won't nip corals