Stolireef--New SPS Build - Page 4

Stolireef · 04/12/2017, 06:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jda

Get the Lyretails on New Life Spectrum pellets as soon as possible and use an autofeeder to give them grub three times a day.

Keep your eye on the Iron. Chaeto (all macros) can use it up quickly and will stop growing. You will also need to prune it to keep it growing, IME.

Thanks for the advice. I've been meaing to get an Iron test kit. Fortunately, I'm in semi-temporary retirement so I'm home to feed them all day (yeah, I know, a little sad but I'm having fun). What do you think of Hikari. It's a little easier to get here than the New Life.

jda · 04/12/2017, 06:53 PM

Hikari is probably fine if they will eat it. Seems like NLS gets eaten better by most fish.

Stolireef · 04/16/2017, 04:40 PM

New rule. Never play with the power settings on an MP40 unless you are in the room and can see what they do at peak power. Pushed mine up to 85% on reefcrest sync.

Little while later heard some splashing sounds. Walked in and tank looked a little like a flushing toilet. Fortunately, nothing splashed out of the tank but had I pushed them any higher.

On the cool side of this, they create a ridiculously cool front to back gyre.

Stolireef · 04/16/2017, 04:44 PM

Also added a few tester SPS frags a couple of days ago. The tank parameters look solid but it's still a very immature system. More playing around with the lights and flow.

Stolireef · 04/16/2017, 04:56 PM

Green slimer and red dragon. I had to adjust the white balance on the red dragon but I think I got it pretty close. Taken on a cell phone so that's as good as I can get at the moment.

Stolireef · 04/16/2017, 05:18 PM

Purple Stylo

Stolireef · 04/24/2017, 05:41 PM

Interesting experiment. I put a few 'tester' corals in the tank last week. A couple of pieces of each coral in different locations. I put two pieces of green slimer and two pieces of red dragon in the tank. The frags towards the center of the tank are STN but the two pieces away from the center are really happy and growing. It could be light intensity or flow. Oddly, I also put two pieces of blue stag in the tank. One is pretty high up near the lights and the other is pretty far down towards the side of the tank. Both are doing well.

I'm still playing with lighting so we'll see how things do over time.

Ssteve · 10/21/2017, 11:30 PM

Any updates?

10Seconds · 10/22/2017, 02:00 PM

I hope he updates, I just read through all 4 pages not realizing it was an old thread. Lol.

04/16/2017, 04:40 PM	#78
Stolireef Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scottsdale AZ Posts: 3,180 Blog Entries: 5	New rule. Never play with the power settings on an MP40 unless you are in the room and can see what they do at peak power. Pushed mine up to 85% on reefcrest sync. Little while later heard some splashing sounds. Walked in and tank looked a little like a flushing toilet. Fortunately, nothing splashed out of the tank but had I pushed them any higher. On the cool side of this, they create a ridiculously cool front to back gyre. __________________ I want to burn twice as bright and half as long. Oh, and a full tank crash is just an excuse for a new build. Current Tank Info: 125 Rimless Leemar, Apex, Trigger 30 Elite Sump, Vertex 180i Skimmer, 2 X Gen4 Radion XR30W, BM Doser, 2xMP40WES, 2xTunze 6095, Sicce Syncra 4.0.

04/16/2017, 04:44 PM	#79
Stolireef Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scottsdale AZ Posts: 3,180 Blog Entries: 5	Also added a few tester SPS frags a couple of days ago. The tank parameters look solid but it's still a very immature system. More playing around with the lights and flow. __________________ I want to burn twice as bright and half as long. Oh, and a full tank crash is just an excuse for a new build. Current Tank Info: 125 Rimless Leemar, Apex, Trigger 30 Elite Sump, Vertex 180i Skimmer, 2 X Gen4 Radion XR30W, BM Doser, 2xMP40WES, 2xTunze 6095, Sicce Syncra 4.0.

04/24/2017, 05:41 PM	#82
Stolireef Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scottsdale AZ Posts: 3,180 Blog Entries: 5	Interesting experiment. I put a few 'tester' corals in the tank last week. A couple of pieces of each coral in different locations. I put two pieces of green slimer and two pieces of red dragon in the tank. The frags towards the center of the tank are STN but the two pieces away from the center are really happy and growing. It could be light intensity or flow. Oddly, I also put two pieces of blue stag in the tank. One is pretty high up near the lights and the other is pretty far down towards the side of the tank. Both are doing well. I'm still playing with lighting so we'll see how things do over time. __________________ I want to burn twice as bright and half as long. Oh, and a full tank crash is just an excuse for a new build. Current Tank Info: 125 Rimless Leemar, Apex, Trigger 30 Elite Sump, Vertex 180i Skimmer, 2 X Gen4 Radion XR30W, BM Doser, 2xMP40WES, 2xTunze 6095, Sicce Syncra 4.0.

04/12/2017, 06:53 PM	#77
jda Dogmatic Dinosaur Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Boulder, CO Posts: 6,256	Hikari is probably fine if they will eat it. Seems like NLS gets eaten better by most fish.

10/21/2017, 11:30 PM	#83
Ssteve Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Posts: 2,087	Any updates?

10/22/2017, 02:00 PM	#84
10Seconds Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2017 Posts: 50	I hope he updates, I just read through all 4 pages not realizing it was an old thread. Lol.