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Not to hijack the thread but I'm also playing around with supplementing my Apollo leds with a pair of t5s. I've started with a ati purple+ and a blue+. The purple+ plus does have a very noticeable effect. My wrasses and anthias really pop under that bulb. I have a couple of other bulbs that im...
Looks good. I've built something similar for a suspended canopy that I'm putting together. I'm going to try a mix of t5s and leds. Wish I had thought about rivets. I ended up using screws instead. Are you going to mount the aluminum frame directly to the canopy? I think I'm going to mount a...
With a Herbie you have a siphon that handles all the flow. You also have a second drain that is taller than the siphon. It just acts as an emergency drain to keep the tank from overflowing if the siphon gets clogged or out of adjustment. There's a gate valve on the siphon line that you use to...
It's going to depend what optics that you used and the area you are trying to cover. On my 120 I have mine about 10 or 12 inches. That's with 90 degree optics.
120 gallon oceanic
40 gallon sump with a fuge
2 Apollo LED's and about to add 2 T5s
Warner Marine MF201 Skimmer
George 618 calcium reactor
BRS carbon reactor
JNS biopellet reactor
2 MP40s
Rio power head
Tunze 6045 powerhead
Laguna return pump
Reef Angel controller
Lineatus wrasse
Rhomboid...
Thanks for the help today John. The purple plus bulbs makes a big difference. It really brings out the red in my fish. My wrasses didn't even recognize each other and started flashing each other as soon as I fired them up.
Btw if you ever want to car pool over to ASR or the Reef Hut lmk.
I am planning on supplementing my LED's with a pair of T5s. I picked up a two bulb 54 watt ballast a few days ago and a pair of bulbs today. The ballast is pre wired with end caps so there wasn't a way for me to message that up. When I turn it on one lamp lights up for a few seconds and then...
Just curious... What T5 and led combinations are you running? I've been playing around with the idea of running a pair of T5s in combination with my Apollo LED's to try to tweak the color.
I switched over to an calcium reactor a few months ago and am no longer topping off with kalk water. I'm selling a Avast K1 stirrer, a pair of Aqualifter pumps and about 2 pounds of kalk mix. The stirrer is about 9 months old and I built it from one of their kits. One of the aqualifter pumps was...