victoly

If you closely read the club bylaws, if you have a 'vette you are precluded from winning any contests, because you have already won at life.. .

*gpd. 75 GPH would be industrial strength!

Could you call it, the chalice palace?

As I understand it, it has mostly to do with the fact that we seal our houses up incredibly tight for heating/cooling efficiency. You need to find the silver lining here, you just have a very well sealed house

HLLE is directly influenced by poor quality (lignite) carbon. It's not as prevalent these days because te quality of carbon on the market has improved drastically. There was an academic study on it, but I'm on my phone and it's a pain in the butt to search for it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Enjoy your new tank euphoria. Looks great

Good to hear. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Bluemoon, how is it faring in your tank?

So what are the pro's of PVC vs Acrylic for sumps? Sturdier, scratch resistance?

may the force be with you. the wiring is a tiring and tedious, albeit ultimately rewarding process.

Low is very low. It's happiest when my tank is in feed mode with all pumps off. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Chris, yeah it's happy in my cube in the back left, where the return pump flows above it but doesn't touch it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

He got the frag from me. I'm serious when I say it needs *low* flow. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Low-medium for all of those will be bueno. And to clarify, all of your LEDs are royal blue ? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Word on the streets is 6500k Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I hope they all win. I like having options. I've seen quite a few of them come and go in my short existence on this planet. Perhaps we need a nostalgia thread...

I'm not sure man, I got them from Tim (wizardx322) this weekend. I'll have to ask him. They're my first stick SPS, so I'm a wee bit nervous...

Thanks, got it from KimP. I really like it as well. I need to frag it though, it's outgrowing it's rock.

It's my favorite piece. I got it from Tim (wizardx322) this weekend. His tank is stellar! I'm still learning about the cyphastrea variants, and I'm not 100% sold that this is meteor shower, but I sure do like it regardless.

Time for the tank hardware: Apex Apex WXM (mp10 control) DIY 24 LED from RapidLED (12 RB, 12CW @ 0.7 amps each channel, 2 Meanwell 48Ds controlled by the Apex. I currently ramp the Blues/Whites up and down for about an hour with an 8 hour photoperiod. Blues are at 60%, whites are at 30%). Ecotech MP10 (40% reefcrest most of the day, several Nutrient Expos at 10 minute intervals and calmed down to 10% constant at night) Tunze 9002 Skimmer with intank cup (not crazy about this skimmer, I can only manage a wet skim) Intank Media basket with carbon/purigen, mechanical filtration is taken care of by 2 different filter sponge media. Cobalt MJ1200 w/ y split locline on return Autotopoff.com ATO Ebo 300w heater controlled by Apex Linksys WRT54G with DDWRT to take care of apex networking duties Livestock list to come.

Here's the inspiration:

2007 Chevy Crew Cab

Per the admins, we should probably just let this conversation die. Everyone has an opinion, and people can vote with their dollars if they so choose. May the best reef store win.

I am not familiar with your meter and I do not understand a need for a correction factor in the actinic range. This should be a function of internal programing during initial calibration of the meter at the manufacture. However, if you use the same meter to make both measurements it does not matter what the correction factor is because it is the same correction factor in both cases. Patrick Email from Apogee Instruments on Measuring LED with Quantum Sensor: "In regards to measuring LEDs with our quantum sensor, there are some caveats to doing so. The following link shows the spectral response of our quantum sensor (http://www.apogeeinstruments.com/quantum/spectralresponse.html). As the graph shows, Apogee quantum sensors underweight blue light, and as a result, photon flux measurements for blue LEDs will be too low. They also overweight red light up to a wavelength of approximately 650 nm, above which they do not measure, and as a result, photon flux measurement for red LEDs will either be too high (if the LED output is all below 650 nm) or too low (if a non-negligible fraction of the LED output is above 650 nm). Additionally, LEDs often have a very narrow spectral output, with a sharp peak of only a few nanometers. So, unless the quantum sensor has a perfectly flat spectral response, meaning it weights all wavelengths of light exactly the same, there will be errors. Electrically calibrated Apogee quantum sensors will likely provide a reasonable measurement for white LEDs because they are broadband, and because electrically calibrated quantum sensors are calibrated under CWF lamps. However, for narrowband LEDs, like red and blue, Apogee quantum sensors will not provide an accurate measurement. As a less accurate method you can use the same spectral response graph as mentioned above to get a relative idea of the error. For example, a 450nm blue LED will have a relative response of approximately 0.8. Therefore, you can figure that the photon flux reading from the sensor is reading approximately 20% low. Just remember, this approach is only relative so give yourself a wide margin of potential error. A blue/white configuration should give you reasonable accuracy, particularly from the broadband spectrum of the white.