built my dream tank and did some DIY in the process "BUILD THREAD"

Nice setup. I am doing a very similar build. We actually have the same tank although I'm not handy enough to build my own stand. I'm also running a radion for my light. how have you got yours programed?

As for the refugium light I just bought one of those macro grow lights from coral life. I heard you can get a clamp light from home depot and a cfl bulb in the 5700k range. Not sure about the wattage but it sounds like a lot of people are doing things like that from what I've been reading.

 

as for the program i literally sat down and spent 4 hours creating mine its really quite nice and it give me what i want which is im able to enjoy the tank beyond the 8 hours being as im never home when the tank is on its brightest. so for example i have it one 3% custom moonlight phase for most of the night and the tank is completly off from like 2-5am i think.

as for the fuge i prolly should have done that but i went out and bought a little led light that has 5 whites and 5 royal blues for 30$ at my lfs. unfortionetly its not working with my timer cause it has one of those stupid buttons not a switch so once it goes off it never comes back on i make just leave it on 24/7 i dont know.

also if you would like i can export my graph and send it to you via email then you can upload it into yours and just hit demo it would give you in my opinion a great starting point or heck you could keep it like that. my tank is fish only right now so i dont have any issues everything is growing at a nice rate but not to much algae just enough to know its working lol. i think my max brightness is somewhere around 70% just let me know if you would like it.

 

So it's been two months since a update the new build went together very well and all seemed to good to be true so I added fish. As I think I posted of earlier then it went down hill to fast one of my fish from the previous setup up became agressive he killed 8 chromis 2 Anthias and some others also I lost a mandarin and a really old bi color who didnt take well to the move. Nothing was doing well turned out my amonia was running a Lil high from all the recent fish tragedies so I did my 20% water change 3 days later I started getting red slime after a week of fighting It I unplugged my skimmer took my media out and ran chemi clean waited a while cause I got busy then did my water change and added a new bag of media chemo

 

Chemi pure black top one and my old chemi pure clean and put back my media and then replaced my sock went to the beach grabbed about 8 small/medium hermits and put them to work finally I've seen a vast improvement tank looks stunning and healthy oh and I fish trapped the pesky fish out so all should be well

 

Pictures

so I hope you enjoy

 

Pictures are acting stupid

So I hope you enjoy these till I get on later

 

Looking very clean now! Sorry to hear about all of the losses. May I ask what type of fish went rogue?

 

Bunch of chromis a 3 year resident bi color somthing it was yellow and purple mandarin goby two barlett Anthias and I'm sure I'm missing about two others