tankonauto
07-22-2012, 07:47 AM
I thought my 55 with coral and fish was okay. I had some sps die off due to the red stringy algae. And I was trying to get the phosphate out with a reactor. Then my Colalvue ballast died for the second time in a year (T5VHO) and I decided to build a LED fixture
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What you see is a 2 lamp warm white garage fixture laying under my DIY VHO
I built a pendant 20" fixture with 12-5w cool white,and 12-3w royal blue
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See all of the stuff in the sump? This didn't seem bright enough so I expanded it, by doubling the led's
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At this point I thought that I have enough light
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Half LED's on
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12 blue, and 12 royal blue on. And the beginning of a lot of algae
After a week of about 200w of LED light I knew I had more nutrient in my system than I thought.
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See it on the soft coral, but it was everywhere.
I did some researching and found your site and aggressively started on a waterfall with a temporary while I built a copy of Floyd turbo's LED waterfall. I took out the skimmer, filter sock and phosphate reactor and put a waterfall in a bucket,
2974
and in a week I had this!
2975
With less than all of the flow of a Mag-5 @4' head, and in one week.
In that week my material arrived
$15 for the acrylic cut offs
$36 for the heatsinks, 10 X 6 from heatsinkusa.com
About $75 for the LEDS and driver from rapidled.com
2976
I cut up the temporary waterfall and put it in and have run it for a week
And there is no algae on the screen, 0 nitrate and phosphate with seven fish eating flake and a big cube of mysis daily.
2977
Why is there no algae on my screen?
I measured my actual water flow as 240 GPH on a 10" screen
however it does seem to be growing less red algae on the live rock and soft coral and front glass
I need to get ammonia and nitrite tested, and get a low range nitrate kit.
One more thing...
While i was working on my automation a new temp. probe for my setup read the temp at 80 deg.f.
The automation brought the temp down to the setpoint of 75 overnight.
I think i need to be more patient.
2968
What you see is a 2 lamp warm white garage fixture laying under my DIY VHO
I built a pendant 20" fixture with 12-5w cool white,and 12-3w royal blue
2969
See all of the stuff in the sump? This didn't seem bright enough so I expanded it, by doubling the led's
2970
At this point I thought that I have enough light
2971
Half LED's on
2972
12 blue, and 12 royal blue on. And the beginning of a lot of algae
After a week of about 200w of LED light I knew I had more nutrient in my system than I thought.
2973
See it on the soft coral, but it was everywhere.
I did some researching and found your site and aggressively started on a waterfall with a temporary while I built a copy of Floyd turbo's LED waterfall. I took out the skimmer, filter sock and phosphate reactor and put a waterfall in a bucket,
2974
and in a week I had this!
2975
With less than all of the flow of a Mag-5 @4' head, and in one week.
In that week my material arrived
$15 for the acrylic cut offs
$36 for the heatsinks, 10 X 6 from heatsinkusa.com
About $75 for the LEDS and driver from rapidled.com
2976
I cut up the temporary waterfall and put it in and have run it for a week
And there is no algae on the screen, 0 nitrate and phosphate with seven fish eating flake and a big cube of mysis daily.
2977
Why is there no algae on my screen?
I measured my actual water flow as 240 GPH on a 10" screen
however it does seem to be growing less red algae on the live rock and soft coral and front glass
I need to get ammonia and nitrite tested, and get a low range nitrate kit.
One more thing...
While i was working on my automation a new temp. probe for my setup read the temp at 80 deg.f.
The automation brought the temp down to the setpoint of 75 overnight.
I think i need to be more patient.