Proteus' Shallow reef build

[Proteus]

Originally Posted by thmh

If your tank is lps dominant try running more blues and less whites in my experience lps loves led.

~Tony

Agreed. Wifey has a par38 on her tank and lps love it

[neoh]

I currently run 10W/50/52. Not much white in there. I did have a semi tank crash a little over a week ago and the corals are starting to wake up again, so - we'll see.

[Proteus]

Bling Bling Baby




Wow what a difference. I have it at 14" to start. I'll leave it for a while and see how coral reacts. Been so long since having halide I forgot how crisp and clean it looks
The spread of that luminarc is crazy. No shadows at all

[lastlight]

Originally Posted by Proteus

The spread of that luminarc is crazy. No shadows at all

the reflector has nearly as much volume as your display. that doesn't hurt lol.

[thmh]

Have you guys seen the new reefbrite mh+led!? Trina @ reef wholesale was telling me about it and I think it's definitely will be a contender! Now all reefbrite has to do is incorporate t5 then we might have a winner winner chicken dinner!

~Tony

[Proteus]

Originally Posted by asylumdown

vertex has stopped making ballasts? wow, I didn't know that. It would be a shame if MH were to die out because equipment stopped being available. It's a tried, tested and true method.

I've sometimes wondered if I could tweak my radion program to make it more hospitable to the LPS that hate them, but since my tank is 95% SPS that seem to be doing fine (though some of the colour issues that you described are definitely happening in my tank as well) I'm too freaked out to tweak things in a way that might harm them.

That's a big issue I think is because you can tweak people do. Not allowing enough time for coral to acclimate. Most of us I would expect don't have a lot of patience and want instant results

I'm sure there will always be mh. Just have to start looking in other areas for parts.
I just found out about vertex ballast since I returned my defective one.

Originally Posted by thmh

Have you guys seen the new reefbrite mh+led!? Trina @ reef wholesale was telling me about it and I think it's definitely will be a contender! Now all reefbrite has to do is incorporate t5 then we might have a winner winner chicken dinner!

~Tony

I just saw last week. It looks ok I wasn't impressed with the look of the pendant myself though it may be prototype.
You can also buy just the led part to add to existing pendant
http://reefbuilders.com/2011/03/16/r...halide-hybrid/

[Proteus]

New ballast came In today. Bought a luxcore. So far it's great. It has a overdrive option but I don't think I'll need it there quite a difference between the two settings
Also picked up a couple old 250 HQI ballast as it's good to have back up
Also picked up a red fromia and Midas Blenny a while ago
In hopin when Phil sees my iPhone pics he'll pop over with his camera

[reefermadness]

Looks nice and sleek. Do you have a par meter to check out the levels? It does look a little bit high.

[Proteus]

Originally Posted by reefermadness

Looks nice and sleek. Do you have a par meter to check out the levels? It does look a little bit high.

As in the pendants is high?
It's 14" above water and I do plan on lowering it once I find a par meter to borrow
The tank is only 12" deep I didn't want to bleech everything

Don't mind the heater in the overflow. I just tossed it in there as wife kept back door open for the dogs and the cold air went downstairs. It's in sump now

[typezero]

Originally Posted by thmh

Have you guys seen the new reefbrite mh+led!? Trina @ reef wholesale was telling me about it and I think it's definitely will be a contender! Now all reefbrite has to do is incorporate t5 then we might have a winner winner chicken dinner!

~Tony

+1 tis be true