Proteus' Shallow reef build

Proteus · #1 10-03-2013, 02:44 PM

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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 · #2 10-03-2013, 05:58 PM

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 · #3 10-03-2013, 11:45 PM

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 · #4 10-03-2013, 11:59 PM

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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.

Proteus · #5 10-04-2013, 12:02 AM

Lol. Yeah never thought of that.

waynemah · #6 10-25-2013, 04:27 AM

I really like how your setosa is spilling onto the ground! Cool effect.

Any updates? How's the halide?

Proteus · #7 10-25-2013, 04:41 AM

Halides great. Sort of. I had some ballast issues. The vertex ballast was from a bad batch and was under driving the bulb to the point of flicker. Vertex has since stopped production and abandoned that line. I borrowed a ballast from MA until new one arrives. Going to try a luxcore eballast.

In turns of the outcome it's been great. Growth has increase dramatically and colors on new growth is amazing. I have one pieces that gone from green to blue and purple. Really has become a fav
For the most part colors are coming around as I had a bleaching incident just prior to switching

The setosa has I crusted 5x that pic since puting the halide on