Koa's 40 Breeder frag tank

[Tristan23]

How is your tank coming along? Nice build! Been reading up on it to get some ideas for my up coming spring project. What did you end up having up as your light?

[koa25]

I've been neglecting this poor tank a lot lately. Between work, school and the army send me here and there for a couple days at a time. It has reflected on the tank. But i still have the 6 bulb t5ho on it. It works. The corals are super happy. So i am not going to mess with it as of right now. Will most likely be doing leds soon. Either aquastyle. Or a single vega and 2 T5s. My clam has crazy amount of new growth. I started using salinity salt. And my corals have definitely noticed the change. I got this first bucket of salinity for dirty cheap. I think it was just to get me hooked. I don't know how i feel spending 80 to 90 bucks a bucket though.

[Tristan23]

They are made by Aquavirto right? It's a bit pricey for me but it did really well in my 75. I was planning on 2 T5's with the Vegas on a 40B I'm planning to set up soon.

[Big_Pun]

I've been neglecting this poor tank a lot lately. Between work, school and the army send me here and there for a couple days at a time. It has reflected on the tank. But i still have the 6 bulb t5ho on it. It works. The corals are super happy. So i am not going to mess with it as of right now. Will most likely be doing leds soon. Either aquastyle. Or a single vega and 2 T5s. My clam has crazy amount of new growth. I started using salinity salt. And my corals have definitely noticed the change. I got this first bucket of salinity for dirty cheap. I think it was just to get me hooked. I don't know how i feel spending 80 to 90 bucks a bucket though.

i love that salt, been using it since day one on the 150. since i dont live in the same house as my 150 and im not there to mess with stuff and tweak things. ive had less trouble and happier coral, stability is the best thing even if parameters are not exactly "ideal".

[Zack]

Did the sol ever start working again? And I highly reccomend the aquastyle kit. Great quality of products.

[koa25]

I have yet to mess around with the SOL. I need to. Cause i am either going to use it or sell it. But i have aquastyles strip lights for actinics on my 92 corner and they were pretty easy and look pretty awesome. So i may go that route with being able to customize the crap out of it.

But i really like Salinity salt. It will be hard to go back if i do. I just don't want to spend that much on salt. But my corals are happy as all hell in the tank. So i may have to stick with it. Stupid expensive salt.

[Big_Pun]

its stupid priced but i see a diff in my corals compared to other salts ive used.

[mkengr45]

I have yet to mess around with the SOL. I need to. Cause i am either going to use it or sell it. But i have aquastyles strip lights for actinics on my 92 corner and they were pretty easy and look pretty awesome. So i may go that route with being able to customize the crap out of it.

But i really like Salinity salt. It will be hard to go back if i do. I just don't want to spend that much on salt. But my corals are happy as all hell in the tank. So i may have to stick with it. Stupid expensive salt.

You running a halide on the corner? Or Sol? The odd shaped tanks are always a bit tricky to light. My half circle has dark spots at the ends that I hate. I never really had that problem with the corner tank though.

[koa25]

I'm running two 250 MH on the corner with lumen bright reflectors. Covers every square inch. It may be a little over kill but the corals are happy. I might cut back to one. And use some LED strip lighting to get the darker areas. I eventually am going to make the full plunge to LEDs but not until after my move in june. Not really doing a lot of upgrades to the tanks until after then. I can imagine that half circle is a tricky one to light. It looked awesome the last time i saw it. A headache non the less.