Recent content by porksmash

Make it 5 open. I'm currently sitting here at work from 12am-8am on an hour of sleep since 6am Friday... not going to make it. I wish I had more warning to give you :(

I started at 40% for 10 hours from start to finish, following the same intensity curve as the natural mode. I increased 10% per week but stopped at 60%. I have mostly LPS so I didn't want to get too bright. As for colors I used the 14k preset for everything since that's what I like, but...

Signing up for the wait list!

They look like stomatella snails. Unless I'm wrong they're perfectly fine and a good addition to the crew. I have several in my tank and I see babies all the time.

Well I just had a nice surprise. I took my second MP10 out of it's box and set it up on the tank and then went to set the drivers up in a master/slave configuration only to find out that the MP10 I bought from eBay in January is NOT wireless. The auction was for wireless and I figured since the...

Finally. Apartment and fish move complete. The chromis were a pain to catch and I ended up just draining the tank down to a couple inches. Frogspawn is opening more and more every day but the trumpet coral is still closed up. I'm super impressed with the radion, although you can clearly see the...

This guy seems to be spamming quite a bit: http://www.bareefers.org/home/user/1696/track

Haha, well I started planning a DIY build and decided the time and effort factor won out for a manufactured unit. It was a toss-up between the Radion and Mazarra P series, but I went with the Radion since it integrates with the Vortechs. Should be fun.

It's a Radion. I was just holding it in the air over the bare tank to get an idea of the coverage. Ecotech says it covers a 2'x2' area , but my tank is 3' wide. I don't plan on keeping corals out to the edges, and mostly LPS in any case, so I'm on the fence.

How thick is your glass vs your friend's tank?

I do love the sch80. I think I'll leave it as-is for now. Based on calculations the pump will do about 450gpm (which is perfect) so I don't think I'll have to do any restriction. If I do need to slow it down I think I can spare a few pennies a month to open the gate valve :P Got some...

Bah, if only I hadn't already glued together $30 worth of PVC fittings... I suppose I could use the ball valve up top and just close off the gate at the bottom.

Oh oops, I didn't comprehend return vs drain in your post. That's just there to dial down the return flow without restricting the pump. The ball valve near the bulkhead is just for easy disconnection. I'm going to have the herbie dialed in so there is a small trickle going down the emergency.

That's there so I can tune the siphon line. The 1" pipe can flow a lot faster than I'm going to be pumping, so I have to slow it down with the gate valve or it will start sucking down air. The other drain line there is wide open in case the siphon line can't handle everything due to an...

Finally have enough going on here to post :) I've had my first tank running for almost a year now. Through that year I've learned a ton, and then I got the upgrade itch. This is the tank where I know what I want and I know how to do it. I settled on the popular 57g Oceanic Illuminata. The...