Doug's 250, now 300, in wall build

[Gti_Leo]

i'm looking at a 48 LED kit from rapid LED for a 90Gallon on a new free 72 gallon bowfront i was just given, i need a new top frame for it and need tor drill for overflows but other then that all seals are solid. the LED kit is claimed as 15-16k in color though i haven't been able to find sample pics but i have e mailed rapidLED if they have some images

Standard 90g Tank Dimmable Kit - Rapid LED

 

[mr_X]

LOL...even rapid is pimping the violet colored LEDs as "UV". You can dim the colors individually, correct? How can they state a color temp then? You should be able to make it any K you want.

 

[Gti_Leo]

you can dim them but not really all individually there are only 4 drivers with 5 colors.

i think they call the violet UV because it is violet and closer to the UV end of the spectrum which is in the 10-400nm range, but i do believe the violet LEDs are closer to an actinic then UV

 

[Gregcoyote]

A true ultraviolet led would look very dim to the eye, but be quite dangerous to look at if it if it packed much more power than needed for just a accent color. I do like the spectrum the Rapid fixture makes, but it isn't necessary to grow corals. I have covered the "uv" LEDs and looked side by side. The "uv" led did cause some corals to glow more than without it. I can only guess that that led causes a bit of fluorescence to happen.

 

[Gti_Leo]

A true ultraviolet led would look very dim to the eye, but be quite dangerous to look at if it if it packed much more power than needed for just a accent color. I do like the spectrum the Rapid fixture makes, but it isn't necessary to grow corals. I have covered the "uv" LEDs and looked side by side. The "uv" led did cause some corals to glow more than without it. I can only guess that that led causes a bit of fluorescence to happen.

which is what i think the intent was for placing them in, to give the corals a bit more pop, and the thing is in my current 35g i have 3 22k super blue KZ T5HOs and a Single Fiji Purple which i honestly love, the coloring of this setup really makes the colors pop, just look at my avatar, that is my RBTA and the color is just awesome so i am really not against a purple hue

 

[Cichlid-dude]

Doug has your brown alge problem gone away? I cant get mine under control and im pretty sure this stuff is dinoflagellates. Nasty stuff, it releases toxins into the water.

 

[bazeball05]

Doug has your brown alge problem gone away? I cant get mine under control and im pretty sure this stuff is dinoflagellates. Nasty stuff, it releases toxins into the water.

I'm getting rid of mine right now... I hate this stuff...

 

[Cichlid-dude]

I'm getting rid of mine right now... I hate this stuff...

How are you treating this?

 

[Cichlid-dude]

Sorry for the hijack doug. This stuff is driving me crazy.

 

[bazeball05]

How are you treating this?

Did a water change and sucked out as much as possible, watched it come back within 2 hours... Then I put a blanket over the tank and its been on there for 2 days and need to do it for 3 days.. Change the carbon and running a heavy wet skim. I am also praying Haha then I will cut the lights to 4 hours a day and slowly rise them. I also raised the pH to 8.4

 

[mr_X]

The brown is mostly gone in my tank. I truly think it was a massive diatom bloom. A million water changes later, it's nearly gone.

 

[bazeball05]

Sorry for the hijack doug. This stuff is driving me crazy.

It worked! My plan worked! The dinos are gone!!!!!!!

 

[Jimmye4fish]

I get brown stuff on my power head and my overflow box. Is that the same stuff? When I do my water changes I just clean them off. That's the only places I've ever seen it though.

 

[mr_X]

Dunno.
That said, an update is in order -

I still have my business license from when I used to pimp livestock, so i got a couple guys together and made a "group buy" of sorts.

they got all sorts of stuff and I found myself leaving work early to pick up 6 boxes from the airport-

I ended up getting roughly 90 pounds of Totoka live rock which will be cycled in this bin-

I filled it with water from my system, and did a water change while i was at it.


I also ordered a few more anemones. I love the bubble tips, so I got 2 greens, and 2 more rose bubbles-

I also got an orange spot rabbit, a black and white clown which I hope will pair up with my existing clown, an engineer goby, who is very, very young , an algae blennie, around the same age , and I took a chance on a blue linckia starfish.

 

[mr_X]

Once startled...the rabbit took on a totally different color. Pretty neat camo-

 

[mr_X]

And now some randoms from the day...just progression stuff really-

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--Check out these montis...they are growing at a fast pace and very colorful under no white LEDs at all. Just the blues at around 80%

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[Jmkb02]

Awesome additions! Love the rabbit camo!

 

[Gregcoyote]

I'm beginning to suspect I have been hitting my monti's with too much light.

Are you reselling this stuff or is it for personal consumption?

 

[Dary421]

Wow that's a wild camouflage that your rabbit fish did ,...totally amazing to say the least ,kinda like what an octopus would do.

 

[mr_X]

Just for me...I gave that large piece away for free today as a matter of fact. Some day I hope to offset some expense by selling frags, but I dunno.

The rock- I want/hope to add some diversity to the tank, and get rid of a massive rock of green palys I have in there now. i'll probably load up the sumps with what I don't use....maybe toss a light over them and a few frags in there too