My 28G JBJ AIO Journal

[Darbex]

Updated pics let me know what you all think

[soymilk]

Nice stuff, looks like your corals are doing great. I like that tiny "Joe the coral" frag I gave you, crazy pe on that one. I want some firefishes too, that's the only thing I hate about rimless. Can't get no good fish.

[madugo]

looking good brian..

[cichlid1409]

dang, frag city!

[Darbex]

dang, frag city!

Heck yeah got to start cheap. The SPS I got from you Madugo are doing good. I wish I could take some night pics the colors are cool. Why cant you get some fire fish?

[soymilk]

rimless tank

i've heard they were jumpers. I found a place that sells helfrichi firefish for a decent price as was on a fence about getting them.



I might just get some purple firefish to see how they do. And I wouldn't be too disappointed if they decide to carpet surf.

[Darbex]

Mine have thus far. My clown is a punk every time I put my hand in the water he bites me and wont stop. I took my hand out and put it just over the tank and he jumped out to bite me and I guess he over estimated because he went surfing on the floor.

[soymilk]

haha that foo is vicious. I've never hard of a clown jumping out the water to tag someone. I did hear of some clowns drawing blood.

i need to go take pics of my tank...

[Darbex]

Made out like gang busters on my new project this weekend picked up a huge sump and another MP40W. So now I have the following:
90G RR tank
2x MP40
30x16x16 sump
PM Bullet and collection cup
1/3 HP chiller with controller

All I need now is lights (which I am trying to decide what to get), a new stand and canopy to be built later by Justin, ATO, two pumps for my sump, Calcium reactor, and probably going to get a Neptune controller.

[soymilk]

damn nice set up. how much you get that new vortech for?

looks like youre basically set up already. Since you got the chiller might as well go all out MH. If I were you i'd do MH with Leds blues supplement lighting. If you're getting the apex, then you can do dimming straight from there with a meanwell led driver.

Hey I have some floatswitches from ATO.com and the neptune breakout box. So you can set up your own ato with programming on the apex controller. Let me know if you want it.

I was gonna do this but my stand is not that big and my sump took up all the space already, so i needed something more compact + jesse at elos is a good salesman....

[Darbex]

You have the neptune right? Thats the one with remote programming? I just read the Digital Aquatics is coming out with a controller with WiFi so you can access it via WWW. I didnt know the Apex allows for set-up to control ATO. I will take the switches. I want MH for the growth but I dont like the energy and heat consumption of it though.

[soymilk]

I bought a wireless adapter for my apex. So it's wireless too. Just cost 50 bucks for the adapter.

I can access mines from anywhere. I just put my ip address in the URL bar and type in my user name/password and I can monitor or change anything I want.

All controllers can be set up to do ato. You just need the breakout box, switches and do a little programming.

Yea heat sucks on mh but t5 are so costly to replace. You could always pony up and get LEDs.

[Darbex]

Yeah I am waiting on these Boost LEDs to see if they can mimic MH growth on this tank

[Darbex]

My 28G JBJ AIO Journal

Which apex unit do you have again?

[soymilk]

Just the reg one. If you wanna save a little money you cab get the apex lite.

Diff between them is 0-10v analog control. For stuff like tunze powerheads or if you have a dimmable light fixture.

Diy LEDs + apex = badass
Ati dimmable t5ho = baller

Apex has a "real time table". So you could program your tank with the seasons. Summer let's the tank go warmer and longer light period. Winter a few deg cooler and shorter light time. Pretty cool, I never got a chance to use it because my LEDs has its own controller. Man y'all sleep late. You up reading aquarium stuff? Lol