My 28G JBJ AIO Journal

[Darbex]

[Darbex]

I put the mysis on it for 30 minutes while I rescaped. Nothing never opened. Hasn't since I got it.

[myjohnson]

Let see some pictures.

I thought the light fixtures looked really cool.

how is the dendro doing?

[Darbex]

Ok so I stopped being lazy and I moved some of the SPS around to get better lighting. I will snap some pics tomorrow. By the way the Boston Aqua Farms epoxy is probably the best epoxy I have used. I tried the other stuff CP carries but it sucks, but the BAF epoxy CP carries is way better. It doesnt "bleed" once it gets wet. That other stuff would make a cloud of stuff when I was trying to mold it in the water and it wouldnt stick as well.

[Darbex]

60 degrees I am stealing your bulbs and doing 4 LEDs on this thing.

[myjohnson]

which optics did you get again?

Put a hammer to the epoxy foo.

[Darbex]

Already got them fixed with putty. I tried moving the light over them but it's still creating shadowing due to not enough spread.

[myjohnson]

Any chance of moving the sps?

Those bulbs have a small foot print but you could get good coverage if the coral was in the right place.

[Darbex]

Yeah I am not putting the MH back on the sps will have to deal with it. The lps, zoas, and fish love the lights and the lower temps. On the next tank I will either do mh or figure something out for the LEDs. I think if I had three LEDs on thus tank it would be fine. Two in the back where my sps are and one in the front.

[soymilk]

That's what I noticed with my LEDs as well. Seems the light is really focused. It doesn't bounce everywhere like mh.

I had to move mines off the racks and into the sand bed. That way it can get more even light all ways around. 95% of my sps are fine... I still have 2-3 sps that dont like LEDs. Polyp extension is ok on te sides that get light but sides that are shades no PE at all. Even when sitting in 300+ par.

Imma toss em into a buddy's 200g Sps tank and hope to savage them.

[Darbex]

Ok so these lights don't work well for sps. It creates to many shaded areas and the back sides of my sps are dying.

[soymilk]

What I noticed about LEDs in is they are very directional. Things right under the LEDs get good par but outside the sweet spotpar drops dramatically. Unlike mh which gave you a nice spread with decent par around the edges of the light.

I had to move all my corals off my frag racks and put them on my sand bed between my fixtures.

[Darbex]

So I need to run one fan because I keep my house at 79 so the tank gets to 80 without it. But thats better than the MH it was 80 with two fans running so now with the fan running it stays at about 77.5F. I think the corals are taking well to the new lights.

[Darbex]

I ran two fans

[myjohnson]

You never ran a chiller did you, I forget?