Tank Journal Archive

[chimaera]

Nah do it, I am a big believer in large water changes not doing any harm to a tank, particularly when there are benefits associated.

 

[mscott]

perfect, haha, its the first ever water change i have done on this tank, not counting replaced water when the skimmer overflows or when we moved it, haha

 

[chimaera]

What??? Man no wonder you have algae issues :p

 

[mscott]

It's the only reason I did the change haha, and I'll keep it up until its gone haha

 

[mscott]

Baught a new goni and a huge fungia plate today, but then come home after being out all day to find some mass algea issues.
Any idea what is going on?? it has never been this bad before.
Cheers

 

[chimaera]

What are your levels looking like?

 

[mscott]

po4 is now about .2
ph is 8.1
ammonia=0
calcium=420
magnesium=1200
salinity-1.026
temp 24.4-24.8

 

[chimaera]

Hmm not too bad - worth checking nitrate/ite?

 

[mscott]

Probly, I'll be getting the LFS TO check it tomorrow, as I just ran out haha

 

[mscott]

My new LED's arived today, 4 cyan, 4 violet and 2UV's, plus two 30x18cm heatsinks, for the build of my nicer looking unit. Just waiting for my wire to arrive that i baught off ebay and i can start dissmantaling my current setup and re-do it properly. Hopefully with the soldering of a professional.

 

[chimaera]

What is your final LED mix going to be?

 

[mscott]

Umm, havnt quite worked that out yet but I think it will be
12x 10000k
16x royal blue
4 violet
4 cyan
2 UV
Thats it for the moment, also want to grab some greens soon, but we will see how this goes first

 

[mscott]

alright new lights are wired up and running, now in the process of making a frame to hang them from and ill update with a FTS

 

[mscott]

some pics of the new lights

 

[chimaera]

Nice! Are you happy with the colours and mixing etc? From what I can tell, those greens and pinks are popping nicely.

 

[mscott]

i am very happy with it, im thinking of doing one more board with the same design to add into the middle, as when the boards are closer together it looks awesome.
I have seen already some improvement from my hammer, fungia, morphs, cadilia sp., and blasto. Im also starting to see some extension from my duncan frag and birdsnest frag, both of which were bleaching under the old lights.

 

[daveH]

I guess that soldering iron is waterproof eh? :confused:

 

[leodb89]

wow LEDs look amazing...u got a build thread?

 

[mscott]

I guess that soldering iron is waterproof eh? :confused:

Oh yea man, its 100% water solderable, it can solder under water hahahaha, naa i have coverglass and its only there because i kept breaking the solders haha.

wow LEDs look amazing...u got a build thread?

Nope i have a mistake thread though haha, its in the DIY bit, you could call it a build thread i suppose haha :)
Cheers

 

[MagicJ]

Looks very nice :) If you can raise the lights a bit it will help with the spread across the tank.