Tank Journal Archive

[NiCd]

thats better! i really like that, if it wasnt for the things in the background to give it scale you would think that was a lot larger. I think that is the secret in nanos to try and create a little mini world with different areas of interest

 

[Josh M]

yeah its took a few times to get it right but im liking the over all layout the very top rock will actually end up as a small overhang once glued....and once my zoa frags start to grow in there (ie its a healthy system) im going to pry them off there plugs and glue them to the rockwork so in the end it will be one big (or rather small) living sculpture:D

 

[MTG]

should be recieveing an I Box on tuesday/wensday :D that layout of rock looks heaps good, although did you take into account that the weir takes up space in the back chamber?

 

[Josh M]

i sort of did when its sitting right at the front there is about 75mm clearance between back of the rock and the back of the paper so that should be enough to clear the weir yeah ?

 

[MTG]

not to sure all packed up now you will get to find out for yourself :D

 

[Josh M]

eh easy enough to redo it :cool: its not like its a huge scape to deal with

 

[MTG]

empty with light on. 4 blue cree xp-e's 1rb and 3 other nm of blue 1 neutral white all run on one driver at 700ma, gives off an 16-18K look roughly bright as hell. fan is off in the photo usualy have the fan on top to keep the light cool.

 

[Josh M]

that thing is ridiculously bright nice color tho ! might look into getting say a 450-500ma driver to dim them down a bit ? thoughts

 

[MTG]

nah its all good :D you could get a dimable driver if you wanted to. you could also hook up the other 3 leds that are on the heatsink but are bypassed. :cool: had to much light with all of them

 

[Josh M]

Nah def won need more light only gunna be zoas and one ric in there...

 

[Josh M]

So I want people's opinions...... White or black substrate..... White looks natural but black makes corals POP ?!?! Help meeeee :-)

 

[NiCd]

Black is alot of work but with all of the 10 tablespoons worth you have it couldnt imagine it could be that much of an issue to maintain? So id give black a go just for shits and giggles

 

[Josh M]

What makes it a lt of work ?

 

[NiCd]

there seems to be an amazing amount of light coloured debris in reef tanks that you are constantly picking out, wether its a shrimp mould, chip of LR, broken peice of coral or even a build up of brownish mullen it only takes the tinies bit to ruin that effect and the cdont orals pop anymore.

 

[Josh M]

Yeah fair call but I'll be doing weekly wc so I'll vacuum sand once a week as part of maintenance worst case I toss it and put normal in but I'm only doing black if I can find someone who can sell me a cup or two as I can only find 9kg bags for $69 !

 

[Josh M]

did some more gluing tonight pretty happy with how its turned out so far.... will have to wait and see it in the box see if need a litttle bit more rockwork ! ive added a 50c for size comparison :cool:

 

[Josh M]

thought id trim and rotate so youse didn't get sore necks :rolleyes

 

[VaultBoy]

I was the black substrate fanboy now that I have had mine for a while im sick of it and thinking of changing it out for white! I have to agree with NiCd its only takes the tiniest piece of debris to ruin the effect, even with my weekly water changes by change day its already looking like crap again!

 

[Josh M]

well if your sick of it you should scoop up a couple cupfulls and post it to me ;)

 

[VaultBoy]

I love it in my planted tank but Im over it in my marine.... If your serious send me a PM and Ill send you some, no worries!