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@@HeftyReefs I don’t really touch the gate valve much anymore. I have found I get the most stability just making small adjustments to my return pump output. Eventually the pump will get dirty enough where stability goes out the door and have to swap and clean.

@@franklintrujillo9853 thanks for asking! Yea, I’ve been needing to get a video up. I hope next week. Work has just been crazy since September.

@@bangersnmash2589 I bought dry Marco rock, glued and cemented the two structures together, then once I got the tank wet, I bought some real live Tampa bay saltwater rubble to seed the tank.

@@kr4dh4x0r good question - in this video after the 1 minute mark I kind of list out methods - ruclips.net/video/_NUeNWBmn98/видео.htmlsi=R0bV39C_6nBqjC0G. I also have a couple cost videos that go through most all my gear you could check out. Hope that helps!

Here is link to cost video with gear breakdown - ruclips.net/video/oiyztICuCLg/видео.htmlsi=WYRlNwPhPO5jgMrm

@@HaneezHaroon I keep those lights as low as possible to the water surface to prevent light bleed in other areas and algae, but yes, there is additional maintenance and periodic additional cleaning required when running a lighted fuge.

Thanks! FYI, every month or two on reef2reef I see a used spectra come up for sale there. Not sure you are a forum person, but just an idea. I think you could snag one if you keep an eye on the for sale section and are a little patient. In fact, I mostly see the 24 inch model pop up there. For the led bars, I just used the default brackets that came with the orphek bars. I didn't have to drill into the fixture or anything, just loosened a screw on the vented side covers and hooked it up. Basically, plug and play...got lucky I suppose!

Hey there, thanks so much for the kind feedback! Appreciate you tuning in!

@@DoitLiveit yellow coris wrasse!

Put the calibrated probe into the two calibration solutions....does it read correctly?

Probe may be bad. How old is it? I have to replace mine every 1-2 years it seems.

@@FriendM2010 when I used it, I would mix it up real well for a few minutes, then let it settle for a while before feeding in the dosing line.

@@michaelho1671 yep, 20k radiums

Hi there, you can buy the unit with either a 2" inlet/outlet or a 3/4" inlet/outlet. Mine has the 3/4" inlet/outlet and so I bought a couple 3/4” Schedule 80 90° Elbow Barb x Male Thread. There are nylon ones at home depot, but most said those may fail after time, so ordered the elbows off of bulk reef supply.

What do the threaded barbs screw into though? What did you use for that piece?

@@raymondhorton8480 they are bushings with female threads so you can screw in the male thread elbows. Go to this link and look at the last picture. That should help - cittapet.com/product/aqua-ultraviolet-25-watt-3-4%E2%80%B3-white-classic-uv-sterilizer/

@@Seth-n2k 20k metal halides…but in comparison to most led lit tanks, they appear about 14k to the eye of the later generation of reefers

@@zburnreefing What 20k Bulb you running? And what t5s?

@@Seth-n2k Metal halides are 250 watt radiums and the t5s are 3 ATI Blue Plus and 1 ATI Purple plus.

@@mike-jn1if yea, same experience over here. LEDs work and grow corals just fine, but T5s just seem to push the growth quite a bit faster in my experience.

Yea I agree; makes me nervous…luckily I haven’t heard of any of the new generation tanks leaking yet, but time will tell…

Hey, thanks for the kind feedback! I am running hamilton m80 ballasts. You can't buy them new anymore, but picked them up on ebay. You can also run electronic ballasts, reefbrite sells them. They will fire the radium bulbs just fine, but will under drive them, so may be a little bluer and 15% less PAR. Hope that is helpful.

Yep, radium bulb production got turned back on, which was very good news. Aqua brite solutions also stocks the radium bulbs and they have their own bulb which many say looks pretty close side by side. I’m just grateful I can keep getting bulbs, and don’t have to compete with polo reef hoarding them all! 😅

No problem. They are Orphek or3 blue plus led bars. I am pretty happy with them. I’ve ran reefbrites as well and those were great too. Orpheks are a little cheaper…we’ll see if they last as long.

@@zburnreefing Thank you !

@@lovermansmith9082 thanks! I’m running 3 blue plus and one purple plus by ATI. I threw in that purple to help draw out the reds and pinks that the halide misses.

@zburnreefing Thanks ! I want to run the 250 watt radium mh on my 1st tank . 5 hours a day on them sounds good for keeping tank temp down . Thanks for your expertise on T 5 s . The best of all worlds . I figure the biggest tank I could gets with one 250 watt radium is 36" x 36 " 😊

You can order them directly here, but they ship from overseas: shop.giesemann.de/epages/Giesemann-Aquaristik.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/Giesemann-Aquaristik/Products/20.480.000.....or if patient and watch used selling sections of forums, you can sometimes grab one (I got my current one used off reef2reef).

100% agree

Thanks for sharing your insights and observations. I’ll take a look at the angle tonight after work and see if it needs a little tweaking for sure!

I have difficulty with elevating nutrients. Nitrates and phosphates are always low when testing. I do feed heavy and nutrient export is just a skimmer. The tank just seems to process the nutrients. No gfo, no carbon, no nopox, etc…so I would certainly classify my system as not low nutrient.

@@steevareno2002 can you go back to them? Or do the pros of LEDs outweigh the cons of metal halide for you?

@@zburnreefing my t5/led are pretty much in place now but it is tempting. I do like the look of the giesemann fixture!

@@jackson6745 that’s great to know, my next order, I’ll give those aqua bright solution bulbs a try! Hope your corals are hanging in there during the AEFW dip regimen…so darn frustrating.

Just a little super glue is usually enough to get it to hold a couple weeks…but if the coral isn’t already puddling out, it can be a little challenging as it needs to encrust quickly, before glue fails. Some folks have also done it with magnet frag plugs, but the less magnets in the system probably the better.

Metal halides are on for 5 hours and T5s for 10 hours. LEDs just a few hours as they turn on when T5s do, but I don’t run them at the same time the halides are on. Hope that helps!

Thank you!

Much appreciated

@@raylo5612 are your mp40s mobius ready? If so, download the mobias app, add your mp40s as new devices, then you can set them up as a “parent” and “child” and have them run same mode in sync or anti sync.

@@Manikandanib2 caribsea Fiji pink…but to be honest, it’s difficult to crank up your flow without it going everywhere…just thought I’d mention that, I might would use something a little larger/heavier.

@@nodieskysgonzales hi there, great question. I dosed basic 2 part (soda ash and calcium chloride) using two separate dosers. I dosed 12 times throughout the day and made sure to dose each part not too close together in time to prevent precipitation. Hope that helps!

@zburnreefing thanks for the info . Much appreciated. But I don't have any idea how to . I am tired of killing corals