My Dymax IQ5 - 3g Pico Reef

Thanks for comment Aquarium Fanatic.

Matt, my apologies I totally stole your idea for the detail in my pics from your Dymax IQ3 review, but gives everyone else all they should need to know about this little beauty of an upgrade. Hoping the new light will be sufficient for my needs but time will tell. And yeah think it looks perfect between the couches.

Seano, you're bang on the money there lol!

 

Ha. No worries. I am a fan of this tank. I look forward to your updates.

 

Subbing in for this! I've got a perfect spot for one on my desk at work. Good luck with the whole project.

 

Cheers Broaner, appreciated. Get it salted now and added sand, won't be able to get any rock until the weekend tho.

 

Testing out the lights after I got it wet.





Had some sand leftover from last build, so just need rock at weekend.

 

wow that looks nice and those lights seem powerful to be so compact...

 

yeah quite impressed with the output, looking forward to putting them to the test.

 

Well long story short I decided to shut down another pico I had running so I've transferred everything across to the Dymax.



Tank has also changed locations.

 

Nice job. Looks great. What is the supplemental light? Did you feel you needed it? I just run the old stock light on mine.

 

The supplemental light is actually just a par20 1.8w led blue moonlight bulb. I originally used that desk lamp to hold an Orphek PR25 over my last pico, but thought i'd use it for the moonlight so I can put the NX5 on a timer rather than controlling in manually.

The Orphek is in storage now as I really want to see how the NX5 copes with the frags that are in the tank.