Hi All
I have been around reading the forums for the last 2 weeks and today I will try to introduce myself.
I have been in the hobby for almost 20 years. In Argentina, where I born, I had for almost 10 years Marine fishes. Later we moved to Europe and finally we landed in USA. I am now a US Citizen. During my last 10 years I had for 4 years a reef tank. I had my ups and downs with it, until I learned. Of course, nothing complicated with respect a type of corals. I like color and movement. I have to say that after those 4 years I had successfully mounted a mixed reef tank with soft and hard corals. I was selling some of the soft coral to the local fish store. Then we moved again and I sold all. Now, we are back in MA. My son decided to start a reef tank with his girlfriend and as a consequence of that he started to do pressure to bring me back to the hobby. Before I had a 75G tank with a 20G Refugium side by side. Now I decided to make it a little more simple and do something smaller, not that the previous was big, but this noew one is in the nano category.
To make a long story short, I got 3 months ago a 14G Biocube. The tank has all standard, but I added to the canopy (NOT inside) Prolumen LEDs. After the first month and reading about LED I wanted to change from PC to LEDs. I was fascinated with the coral colors under LEDs. But you find reviews saying good and bad things about LEDs and I was afraid of the change. I found that the Prolumen Pro and strips LEDs are waterproof. So, without taking the original light system from inside the canopy, I added the Prolumen Pro and strips LEDs to the outside, just 1 inch over the water surface with the Biocube cover close. Splashes or evaporation do not affect them.
The tank has 3 months all. LEDs almost 2 months in use. All is growing and I only lost a Hammer on this 3 months. I do 2G water changing every week over a final total volume of 8-9 G after sand and rocks. Temperature 77-80 F . I have a Koralia 250G connected to my Reef keeper as a wave maker (on 20" off 20").
I hope you can see the YouTube video link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuIP4HhwgcU
Cheers to all
Daniel
PS: I forgot to say that I have a refugium assemble in in the middle section of the back, instead of bio-balls, with a mini T5 light and reverse light system (12 hours during night lights are ON)
I have been around reading the forums for the last 2 weeks and today I will try to introduce myself.
I have been in the hobby for almost 20 years. In Argentina, where I born, I had for almost 10 years Marine fishes. Later we moved to Europe and finally we landed in USA. I am now a US Citizen. During my last 10 years I had for 4 years a reef tank. I had my ups and downs with it, until I learned. Of course, nothing complicated with respect a type of corals. I like color and movement. I have to say that after those 4 years I had successfully mounted a mixed reef tank with soft and hard corals. I was selling some of the soft coral to the local fish store. Then we moved again and I sold all. Now, we are back in MA. My son decided to start a reef tank with his girlfriend and as a consequence of that he started to do pressure to bring me back to the hobby. Before I had a 75G tank with a 20G Refugium side by side. Now I decided to make it a little more simple and do something smaller, not that the previous was big, but this noew one is in the nano category.
To make a long story short, I got 3 months ago a 14G Biocube. The tank has all standard, but I added to the canopy (NOT inside) Prolumen LEDs. After the first month and reading about LED I wanted to change from PC to LEDs. I was fascinated with the coral colors under LEDs. But you find reviews saying good and bad things about LEDs and I was afraid of the change. I found that the Prolumen Pro and strips LEDs are waterproof. So, without taking the original light system from inside the canopy, I added the Prolumen Pro and strips LEDs to the outside, just 1 inch over the water surface with the Biocube cover close. Splashes or evaporation do not affect them.
The tank has 3 months all. LEDs almost 2 months in use. All is growing and I only lost a Hammer on this 3 months. I do 2G water changing every week over a final total volume of 8-9 G after sand and rocks. Temperature 77-80 F . I have a Koralia 250G connected to my Reef keeper as a wave maker (on 20" off 20").
I hope you can see the YouTube video link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuIP4HhwgcU
Cheers to all
Daniel
PS: I forgot to say that I have a refugium assemble in in the middle section of the back, instead of bio-balls, with a mini T5 light and reverse light system (12 hours during night lights are ON)
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