Tank Journal Archive

[Darren S]

Hey @Darren S love the aqua reef 400 looks great,the Zoas you have are really nice..

Your son's nano is looking really good too, the scape is fantastic. The light dont look to bad at all..

Cheers..

He has the standard 11w compact lamp 1/2 white, 1/2 blue.

 

[BoratJr]

Yea looks good.. Are you going to upgrade the light or just leave it for now?

 

[Darren S]

Yea looks good.. Are you going to upgrade the light or just leave it for now?

Probably leave it for now, we have a couple of corals under it now so we will monitor them for a while, at the moment they are opening fully so all good.

 

[BoratJr]

Fair enough.. You should get a good indication on coral situation in around a month roughly :)

 

[Darren S]

Picked up these zoas this morning, two different types. Dark green centres, salmon ring,light green frill, and light green centre and frill.

 

[Priscacara]

Nice shape to the rock they are on too, will look awesome once they take off and spread.

 

[BoratJr]

They look awsome :) love zoas definatly my favourite coral!!

 

[Darren S]

These ones are really cool, I will take a better photo when they have settled in. They are from a customer from one of the LFS I frequent. He sells them small frags. They are a bit pricey but all the frags were really nice colours and different to the normal stuff they get in.

 

[BoratJr]

Oh yea. How much is pricey though? Just to compare to up here..

 

[Darren S]

The two pieces with the greens on them cost $30. The eagle eyes I have had for a while.

 

[BoratJr]

Thats not too bad i guess pretty good buy :) I paid $60 for the ones i have. I think i got ripped haha

 

[Darren S]

Lost my Wrasse today, he decided to check out what it's like to sit on top of the glass under the T5s for a while. It was while I was doing a water change and didn't notice he had jumped up to try out sun baking. Pissed off that I didn't notice he wasn't in the tank when I finished.

 

[Priscacara]

Bummer mate! I lost my 2 in similar fashion, not a good way to go but then I guess no way really is. The six line doesn't seem to be bothered but neither did the others, just decided to do some acrobatics I guess and had an epic fail.

 

[aussieant32]

I would love a wrasse but not risking it due to this :(

 

[Darren S]

Thinking I will get another Wrasse, I will look at doing some modifications and be a bit more vigilant when doing cleaning/ water changes.

 

[Darren S]

I am also looking at upgrading my lights. I am not sure whether to upgrade to 6x54w T5 or change over to LED. I don't want to start arguments but does anyone have any advice on which way I should go.

 

[BoratJr]

Hi Darren, I'm not an expert with lights but if your going to upgrade I would recommend LED.
They are a bit more expensive but I do believe they have much better lighting quality than T5.

Was only just at my LFS talking about LED's and looking how much different they are with one and other.
They also give your aquarium more of a sparkling affect to it, and the quality is a lot sharper.

Hope this helps. :)

 

[Priscacara]

I went with leds so that would be my preference but lately some have been going back to t5s but for mixed corals like I have leds make everything crisp and clear.

 

[Darren S]

I went with leds so that would be my preference but lately some have been going back to t5s but for mixed corals like I have leds make everything crisp and clear.

Yeah, six months ago I was certain I would go LED but now a few people have told me they are changing back to T5s. So in the interim I have bought 4 geismann T5 tubes. Unfortunately when I went to install them I discovered that the Aquaone light fitting is falling apart. So now have another new one ( number3 ) on the way under warranty. I thought I would just upgrade the tubes so I could take a bit more time to make my decision.

 

[Priscacara]

The Aquaone lights seem to be absolute crap whereas the rest of the tank and fittings seem really good, guess their product control is slack over at the lights.