divinereefer

Overall I'm really impressed with the look of the lights. I'm not really sure if they provide much light for growth, but they do make the tank look cool when the lights are out. the blue/Magenta look creates a pink shimmer over my LPS corals.

The frag tank is build into the wall in my basement. It's a fairly simple design with a single overflow into a 40 gallon breeder tank. The purpose of this tank is to house extra corals that are trimmed from my 90 display. It's also to fill a space of an old Ugly freshwater tank that was in the wall.

I was lucky enough to find this pump used. I have the original model, but it still has most of the features. I was using a Hydor Koralia 3 and wasn't happy with the flow on my frag tank. This pump is awesome and fun to mess with the settings. The varied flow allow me to see my coral from the top of the tank. Before the koralia created too much constant flow to allow me to see anything on the surface of the water.

Update

- the dry side of the pump started making a lot of noise, so I went back to my Koralia 3. The koralia 3 is silent compared to the vortech. I like to use the koralia to clean the bottom of my bare bottom tank as well. 

I replaced my Y split with basic loc line outputs on my closed loop with this guy. The varied flow is excellent!

  I thought I'd add some thoughts on my new  Sunblaze T5 light fixture from Sunlight supply company. I purchased this light from Premium Aquatics for around $150 after shipping and tax, which I think is an excellent price. This light is Bright! 

I have also found it a challenge to take pictures of the tank with all the multiple color spectrums that shine down on the tank. My small nikon camera is pretty powerful, but doesn't have any manual settings. Without setting the white balance you usually end up with a very blueish tint to all the pictures.

 My new tank experiment is with NP biopellets. The objective of using these was to get my Nitrates and Phosphates down to close to zero. I had some problems with cyano and I needed to clean the glass daily. I use the Generic API and Red Sea tests kits, so I can only tell you that my levels were on the high side. I've been a little too cheap to buy the Salifert kits! 

Calcium - Two cups of driveway heat/calcium chloride into a one gallon bucket and your solution is ready. For detailed information and calcium recipe I suggest you go reefkeeping.com. This site is awesome and has step by step instruction on DIY supplements.

Magnesium - Pure Epsom Salt from the Grocery store. For detailed information and magnesium recipe I suggest you go reefkeeping.com.

Kalkwasser - One tsp of Ms. Wages pickling lime to about a gallon of water and let it drip into your sump over night.