Red Sea Max 130 Build

[the_fish_man]

Got a few things. A daurth maul zoa Which looks awesome. Got a red flame macro algae. Got some candy apple pinks. Got some whamming watermelons. Also got a hollywood stunner chalice and a really cool white encrusting gorganian. And a Tds meter

 

[kurtyboh]

Wheres the proof?

 

[the_fish_man]

Wheres the proof?

Sorry I haven't gotten proof up yet hopefully tomorrow

 

[the_fish_man]

Okay here is a little update.
My darth maul zoas have grown and I now have 3 zoas of them.
My mandarine orange zoas Have 11 zoas and I fragged it once with a 1 polyp frag
My anemone is currently splitting it has 2 mouths right now. Although it is taking its time splitting it got the second mouth a little over a month a go.
I got some more space monsters because my jawfish buried my old ones.
My pulsing xenia is growing like a weed and I am having to trim it reguraly. I have got a sea hare to help with the algae although he ain't helping much. I still have a byropsis infestation. So tang/foxface police come catch me! I have decided I am gonna buy a baby fox face and see if he eats. Now before you guys start telling me not to let me tell you this. He is a baby maybe 2 inches or so. And I am gonna get rid of him when he gets to big for my tank. Many things have grown quite a bit. I will get pics of almost everything hopefully soon.

 

[Bige]

Test your mg. Bryopsis is ususally the result of low mg.

 

[the_fish_man]

Huge update! First i finally got over my byropsis, it's all gone!!! And i am finally starting to plan out my leds, I should have all the less worked oout by the end of the year. Also got a ton of new corals

 

[Bige]

What did you do to get rid of byropsis? I have some that won't quit.

 

[the_fish_man]

What did you do to get rid of byropsis? I have some that won't quit.

For about a month, I just battled it down. By that I mean every 3-5 days I would do a water change but right before the water change I would turn off the pumps and pick off as much as I could then threw it out. Then right after that I did the water change, and then for the little strands that were left I just killed off with kent marine magnesium. Hope that helped

 

[Bige]

I've been using kent magnesium. Whats your mg at? Did you go high? Like 1300. I guess I will have to remove it manually.

 

[the_fish_man]

I've been using kent magnesium. Whats your mg at? Did you go high? Like 1300. I guess I will have to remove it manually.

Yes you want it very high for the treatment to start working it needs to be around 1500-1800 some people go higher then that. I'm going to 1600. Although raise it slowly and do water changes so it doesn't get to high

 

[the_fish_man]

So looking further into LED's I am pretty sure I will be going to get some ecoxotic paranormal led's and do a retrofit. Like I said by the end of the year I should at least be starting this. More info coming soon

 

[Bige]

My lfs has those leds and their tank is amazing. Good luck. Keep us updated.

 

[the_fish_man]

My lfs has those leds and their tank is amazing. Good luck. Keep us updated.

Feels good to here that. Do you know what colors they have? Right now I am thinking
2 strips of 50/50 blue and white and 1 strip of blue
or
2 strips of blue and 1 white strip
or s strip of blue 1 strip of whit and 1 strip of 50/50 blue and white

 

[Bige]

You don't mean stunner strips right? You mean the actual light strips? My lfs has 3 50/50 and 2 whites. I would say its comparable to a 14k light.

 

[the_fish_man]

Ya I mean the actual strips I think I might do
2 blues and 1 white
or
1 blue 1 white and 1 50/50

 

[the_fish_man]

Well I did the jump ordered 2 50/50 and 1 blue. Came a couple days ago. I am going to install tomorrow and maybe today if i Have time.
Merry Christmas

 

[the_fish_man]

Well I started the led DIY project. I got my hood ripped apart and have everything planned out. I am heading to the hardware store tomorrow. Should have everything done tomorrow

 

[the_fish_man]

I finished it however I do have some modifications to do it is basically done. I am going snowboarding tomorrow so won't be able to get pics up. But on Thursday be ready for a bunch of pics and how to DIY you red sea max hood to LED's lol

 

[the_fish_man]

Okay sorry I havent gotten up the retrofit up yet I lost the dimensions for the stuff for the hood but I found them in my computer and now I will continue writing it out than I'll post it here but just for phone here are are some crappy phone pics of some new corals I got and of my tank

 

[the_fish_man]

Got a soprano!