Lairds Tanks (growth pics)

Looks full and healthy. I love how you have a variety of growth and color. You have any close up picks of your Ice Fire Echinata?

Welcome home, Laird! I hope you had a great time! Good to hear your tanks are still strong without you watching them everyday.

sunflashx wrote: rufessor wrote: also curious what relative current your running your running both strings on for the color.  I have a fairly similar build thats been going now for 3 + months on a tank... Corals are doing well but I think I was pushing intensity a bit as color was a bit bleached on some so I dropped it about 20%... yours all look great. Loving your tank.  I have been really enjoying mine and thought it was cool... but we'll... YOU WIN! AMAZING!  Love the diversity. I'm thinking the same thing pretty much.  I tried to turn up the juice on mine and the few corals and anemone I had didn't seem happy. Just looking for a ball park range that gives that kind of growth.

I don't remember what I have the drivers tuned to, its been to long since my build.

Heres by Apex schedule for just my LEDs. Don't forget that I run two t5 bulbs too.
I have more profiles then I need but I like to keep a lot so that I can play around with it from time to time.
And the lights are what I attribute that great growth to. Correct flow and rock solid parameters are more important then lights imo.

White LEDs
Set OFF
If Time 08:00 to 10:00 Then WhiteUp
If Time 10:00 to 17:00 Then WhiteP
If Time 17:00 to 20:00 Then WhiteDow

Blue LEDs
Set OFF
If Time 07:00 to 09:00 Then BlueUp1
If Time 09:00 to 18:00 Then BlueUp
If Time 18:00 to 19:00 Then BlueDown
If Time 19:00 to 24:00 Then BlueLow


WhiteUp
Ramp =120
Start Intensity = 25
End intensity= 85

Whitep
Ramp = 15
Start Intensity = 85
End intensity= 98

WhiteDow
Ramp = 130
Start Intensity = 85
End intensity= 20


BlueUp1
Ramp = 120
Start Intensity = 15
End intensity= 80

Blueup
Ramp = 30
Start Intensity = 80
End intensity= 99

BlueDown
Ramp = 44
Start Intensity = 99
End intensity= 70

Bluellow
Ramp =90
Start Intensity = 69
End intensity= 10




Edited by Laird - June 13 2012 at 12:48pm

also curious what relative current your running your running both strings on for the color.  I have a fairly similar build thats been going now for 3 + months on a tank... Corals are doing well but I think I was pushing intensity a bit as color was a bit bleached on some so I dropped it about 20%... yours all look great. Loving your tank.  I have been really enjoying mine and thought it was cool... but we'll... YOU WIN! AMAZING! 

Dang man, your tank looks great =)

3 years ago. I traded a 210 for this tank a long time ago, it might of been with you. It was somebody in spanish fork

Its been a reef for 2 years.

love the acan garden. looking good laird!

Whats the red and blue chalice? first pic bottom right.

And heres whats left in the frag tank

Big thanks to Billy for coming over yesterday and taking some great pictures for me. It was last minute so I didnt get a chance to clean the glass. doh!











Edited by Laird - April 26 2012 at 2:15pm