140 Gallon Starphire Build

[bbprinting]

Oh my! Not the dreaded wild card, those have cost me a fortune over the years. Seems my tanks pulls more wild cards out than anything else I do.

 

[Guest]

Quick update I have added my fish and corals from my old tank and so far so good.

I used the bacteria that was posted earlier this month to cycle your tank in days and so far so good.



Had David build me a custom ato container holds roughly twenty gallons




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[melev]

Your project is coming along nicely.

 

[psteeleb]

I like the ATO container, I may have to make myself one like that.

 

[Guest]

@kuyatwo wrote:

Lets see some pic of the tank with fish and corals.

 

[dfwminis]

@96gts wrote:

Lets see some pic of the tank with fish and corals."]




I agree, pics.............

 

[Ptt]

So what sand did you end up using and where did you get it from?

 

[Guest]

@Ptt wrote:

I went with Carib sea sea floor special and also reef flakes live sand. I don't prefer fine sand especially since i like alot of flow in my tanks and fine sand just makes a sand storm in the tank


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[Guest]

One of the fish I wanted that when I first saw it on reefbuilders. I finally found one. It is a stigmata blenny

http://reefbuilders.com/2009/08/08/stigmata-blenny-sea-dwelling-creatures-shows-off-stigmata-and-personifer/




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[Guest]

Wow! Congrats on find the fish. It's very unique.

 

[cabi]

Really cool fish I wonder how would look under actinic lighting or leds

 

[Guest]

Finally got around to taking pics with my camera didnt have time to photoshop them but they are pretty close to real colors.



Hoeki Frag

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Highlighter Coral

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Tyree Bubble Gum Monster

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Tyree Miami Hurricane

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Pot of Gold Favia

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[Guest]

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[MarcoG]

Looking good Pampee!

 

[ReefNut2010]

Looks great. Glad you're finally up and running. Best of luck on the new set up, and lets get some full tank shots in there.

 

[Guest]

Quick update

I decided to keep my ati powermodule as I get some great growth but decided to sell my reefbrites all blue LEDs to create my own led fixture

Worked with Wayne imagex and going to get a 36"x1" heatsink and have 24 LEDs on each fixture 18 (royal blue and blue) and 6 neutral white ran on 4 meanwell dimmable drivers all controlled by the profilux. I decided to use my profilux as they have built in program for diy led fixtures so I can do storm and cloud modes.

Hopefully can have the fixture up in a couple weeks.

Also I decided to tweak my t5 bulb combo.

3 x kz super blue
2 x ati blue special
2 x ati blue plus
1 x kz Fiji purple


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[chappy]

nice job !!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow does that damsel have a mean look on his face

 

[Carabelli]

those pictures look great ... it would be neat to see you pick up one of those new dimmable ATI fixtures ... you could have a very nice look then

 

[Guest]

Quick update I sold my all blue reefbrite LEDs. I was going to build a diy led/t5 fixture. But plans changes I love the sps coloring I am getting out of the t5's so I decided to have Wayne (imagex) make me a fixture so I ordered 2 x 36" heatsinks and 4 meanwell dimmable drivers and going with 23 LEDs (xp-e and xp-n) in each all from rapidled. Each heatsink will have 18 royal blue and 7 cw and each blue and white group will be on their own driver so I can do dimming. I plan to control these off my profilux controller as right now they are the only controller I know of that has storm and cloud mode for diy fixtures.


Here is a pic of just seeing what blue LEDs looked placed on the heatsink whites have not been added

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[Heath]

Will you be running fans on the heatsinks, or will they be passive? Ive been doing more and more reading on leds, and the magic number for a maximum junction temperature seems to be ~150 degrees farenheit for the crees. If thats true, then I think fans are pointless.