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Let me know if you need some to start up, This strain loves the light you can blast it 12+ hours and it doesn't burn or discolor. 

24 minutes ago, HarleyGuy said:

I ended up getting the Kessil H380 Grow light primarily because of the $150 difference in price. I've dumped a ton of money in this build and I'm hoping that the difference in Chaeto growth rates wont be substantial. 🙂

 

The H380 is a great light, i have to cut my Chaeto back every other week roughly 5-6 lbs. its like a thick mat by the end of 2 weeks in my 25gal fuge. this pic is from the last batch in a 30gal trash can 

I really love the abyzz tbh its a beast, i run it on the second lowest settings and can run all my reactors when i need to and still turn the tank over 10Xs an hr 

Great list, are you going manifold or pumps for you reactors? id upgrade the pump if your going manifold or maybe add a second cor 15 for redundancies. Kessil is supposedly in production  of a new grow light thats tun-able more to the macro horticulture. that might be interesting. I run Triton so of course turn over and fuge is what i focus on most during build out. 

****, thats a nice skimmer, the skimmer is worth the 600.00 alone 

Nice John, ill be following along. 

Could try a Pitho crab, i believe they will eat most turf algae, GHA and stuff like that, They are not like hermits, they wont eat or pick at snails and are pretty friendly and unique. 

Anyone have an input based on the new light specs and what people have said? worth upgrading from G4s, or other lights currently in use? 

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I dont use either on my tank... BUT when i had the waterbox setup.. I used socks due to not wanting to clean that area, to small a place for detrus and buildup and to clean it was a disaster on the waterbox, nevermind the fact that you cant see anything, the fact that i had to remove the skimmer, which is really hard to adjust in that small area, and get the bags of carbon and GFO out and TRY not to dump nasty stuff into the display in the process.. No thank you! 

It will be a little while, I just cut back 12lbs or so last week. 

I like the aquascaping it looks good. 

I can donate the air pump, i have a couple different sizes, what size do you think it needs? I get pods delivered every month from algaebarn, but it would be nice to stop paying them and put the money back into the club if we can workout the details. 

If you are worried about the acid ( which will eat rock) you can use a stronger bleach than the 3% you find in stores. I have 12.5% here at work and 35% Hydrochloric acid here. But honestly i wouldnt use either, Id use 25% caustic soda (sodium Hydroxide) it kills anything organic. If you need some let me know i have several totes of 50% you can dilute. i honestly wouldn't use the chlorine products. 

Hurray for new beginnings and upgrades!! 

1 minute ago, victoly said:

It’s gonna make the garage hot and humid. Also the efficiency is junk unless you have one with two hoses that has intake and exhaust to the exterior.
 

Thats true, i didn't think about that it would be using salty air for intake, prob not a good solution. 

what about an in room portable type? like a 12,000 btu, you can exhaust  into the garage through the wall and it could still look nice in the garage with a dryer type vent on the outside? they are like 339.00 for a 450sq room. they have thermostats and all that, and built in dehumidifiers. 

I dont have a fish room, but the Nest thermostat i have installed is by where the tank is, it has humidity settings that i can kick the a/c on when the humidity gets to high in the house. I hope that one day the Alexa will do more with the Apex to help control temp with the wifi thermostats. I use the alexa on the apex and can do some option with it but not much really. 

2 hours ago, achen said:

I was looking at the APEX EL and that's an option too. I just don't need the full blown APEX so looking for something more affordable.

@Christyef - do you know Joe's account? I can try PM him.

Thanks.

Alex

If you ever plan to upgrade, bite the bullet and find a standard unit, you will thank yourself in the long run. 

Just now, victoly said:

Its probably fine my dude. I think its just insolubles that you can mechanically remove. throw on some filter socks and call it a day. 

Thats what i would do, run carbon, use filters. for a start up it be fine id imagine. My tank is still 60% IO and 40% tropic marine and everything is starting to do better.   

1 minute ago, Juiceman said:

I saw something on Reef2Reef or one of the Reefer Facebook groups about lots of people having issues with IO salt recently. Yellowing of bags, solidifying in the bags, etc.


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That was it. it was on reef2reef, i believe it was noted on the poll of the day question about salt. 

I read something a while back on some issues with it, i cant recall the exact issue, but it was connected with coral issues and cloudiness and particles left in the buckets after mixing. I started my recent build with it, didn't have any issues until the last 2 boxes as far as cloudiness. but my sps have had a hard time the entire time ive had this tank setup, with everything being on point. i switched and its been a dramatic difference in coral health.  

I recently switched from IO because of this same exact reason, Id do a water change and the tank would stay cloudy for a few days sometimes it would never clear up. TBH it looked like a bacterial bloom, but the UV would have killed that in a day or so.

Well, your going to be adding a doser and some kind of dosing vessel to keep the supplements. if you travel the apex is super great for that, i use the apex and 2 doses for supplements and i love it. everything stays very stable, but i do have a bit more water volume which helps with any swings. i like the apex setup and the automation. is it expensive. yep.. but it works. 

I agree on the steep price, thats why i havent pulled the trigger on it yet, ive added it to my cart like 4 times lol, but just cant bring myself to checkout. i keep waiting for the Trident to come in stock, but even still. I really like the ability to test No4 and PO3 and alk, mg and calcium. but that price ugh. 

I have the alkatronic ive not hooked it up on the newest build just yet, but i test my alk, its pretty stable and dont have a great need for it TBH. but my tank is not sps heavy. but ive been looking at the reefbot vs the rest. i like the ability to test the variety of tests. I do like the Alkatronic, but only testing one in todays age with the tech thats out there for 800 bucks is a bit much in my opinion.