Joe Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 Do you have a lens on the phone too? Those are nice looking pics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewSPS Posted December 8, 2019 Author Share Posted December 8, 2019 Yeah I have the clip on polyLab lens to filter the blue out. Joe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewSPS Posted December 12, 2019 Author Share Posted December 12, 2019 Full tank pictures always suck trying to get the white balance right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 Your rock work is sweet! Just noticed from that pic how nice it looks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewSPS Posted December 12, 2019 Author Share Posted December 12, 2019 Thanks ! I still would like to get a few more small pieces to break up and create some more ledges with. It gives the tank plenty of open room for the fish to swim and places to mount coral. Joe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewSPS Posted December 14, 2019 Author Share Posted December 14, 2019 Full tank shot Friday Joe and crimsonvice 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewSPS Posted December 14, 2019 Author Share Posted December 14, 2019 I’m pretty sure my fts Never look good from the kessil shimmer in the water. It messes with the camera from a distant. Joe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 Great pics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewSPS Posted December 14, 2019 Author Share Posted December 14, 2019 Thanks ! I’m going to do a video of the tank today to upload. Recording it on the GoPro makes the take look 100% better with the lights. Joe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewSPS Posted December 15, 2019 Author Share Posted December 15, 2019 Picked up this gigas from summit city corals today. Very nice store and had a wide range of dry goods for purchase. Muttley000 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muttley000 Posted December 15, 2019 Share Posted December 15, 2019 That's a store I still haven't got to hit. What all did they have! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewSPS Posted December 15, 2019 Author Share Posted December 15, 2019 39 minutes ago, Muttley000 said: That's a store I still haven't got to hit. What all did they have! A little bit of everything considering it’s packed in a small space.I picked up a fruity pebble monti as well I’ll get pictures of. It was the only store I went to in Fort Wayne that I purchased anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewSPS Posted December 17, 2019 Author Share Posted December 17, 2019 Have had him in the tank for 6 weeks now. Comes up to the front of the glass to eat all the pods off. Joe and crimsonvice 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muttley000 Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 Excellent pic! Does it take any prepared foods for you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 Awesomesauce! He looks good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewSPS Posted December 17, 2019 Author Share Posted December 17, 2019 He’s done very well since I got her from gebers. As for prepared foods I’ve never seen him go after them but he’s gotta be eating more than pods. Joe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewSPS Posted December 17, 2019 Author Share Posted December 17, 2019 He’s done very well since I got her from gebers. As for prepared foods I’ve never seen him go after them but he’s gotta be eating more than pods. full tank shot. Still haven’t mastered this one on the phone camera. I can get amazing pictures if I put the entire phone in the tank though. The light shimmer throws it way off balance Joe, crimsonvice and Jon Fishman 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewSPS Posted December 20, 2019 Author Share Posted December 20, 2019 Switched up to running a 200 watt brs titanium heater as my main heat source. The cobalts are great but their customer service sucks. My backup cobalt heater was throwing stay voltage into the tank. Luckly it hardly ever came on. Maybe once or twice a week. It took me over 3 weeks to get them to send a replacement heater under warranty. So my other 200 watt cobalt will be used as the backup with the BRS heater as the primary. This allows for more levels of safety. Heater main: 78.4 -+ 0.3 degrees. Controlled by heater controller probe heater controller controlled at my apex at on at 77.4 and off at 79.4. Controlled by apex probe 1 heater backup controlled by apex and apex probe 1. On at 77.8 and off at 78.0 A second apex probe is also reading out temperatures with alarms in case of the first probe failing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewSPS Posted December 22, 2019 Author Share Posted December 22, 2019 The brs heater controller (inkbird) is a little funky for the first day. You can calibrate the temperature of the probe which I should have waited to do until after 24hr. It would swing about half a degree from the apex and hanna probe. It’s finally starting to match both so the temperature is evening out a little more. relocated the auto feeder to the sump along with a maxi jet 1600. The auto feeder will feed reefroids and TDO small pellets once a day. The maxi jet will keep the return section stirred up so no food can settle. installed some wyze cameras so I can watch the tank when away from the house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OurCoralReef Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 Switched up to running a 200 watt brs titanium heater as my main heat source. The cobalts are great but their customer service sucks. My backup cobalt heater was throwing stay voltage into the tank. Luckly it hardly ever came on. Maybe once or twice a week. It took me over 3 weeks to get them to send a replacement heater under warranty. So my other 200 watt cobalt will be used as the backup with the BRS heater as the primary. This allows for more levels of safety. Heater main: 78.4 -+ 0.3 degrees. Controlled by heater controller probe heater controller controlled at my apex at on at 77.4 and off at 79.4. Controlled by apex probe 1 heater backup controlled by apex and apex probe 1. On at 77.8 and off at 78.0 A second apex probe is also reading out temperatures with alarms in case of the first probe failing. I just ordered mine as they got back in stock i went with the 300w as it was a couple $ more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewSPS Posted December 22, 2019 Author Share Posted December 22, 2019 I was on the fence about getting a 300 watt but my 200 watt only runs maybe 75% of the time and the backup hardly ever turns on. I do like how small these heaters are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OurCoralReef Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 I was on the fence about getting a 300 watt but my 200 watt only runs maybe 75% of the time and the backup hardly ever turns on. I do like how small these heaters are. What would be the pros and cons more wattage heats up faster but turns on and off more frequently Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Fishman Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 My heater works, but my Inkbird reads but the outlets won’t kick on my heater. I need to plug a lamp in to it to test Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muttley000 Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 Nice redundancy on the heaters. I used to have an ink bird controller on a crabitat for some land hermits and had good luck with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewSPS Posted December 24, 2019 Author Share Posted December 24, 2019 I’m not 100% sold yet. The temperature probe is always out of calibration even after a day. ive been on a mission lately to keep my nitrates lower. I read a way to use a Hanna checker to read nitrates with the combination of other test kits. I had the phosphorus checker and got a used phosphate checker this week. Here’s the results: Salifert: 10ppm Redsea: 10ppm hanna: 11.9 ppm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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