Red Sea 130D AIO

[iTzJu]

If you noticed those silver bolts in the fixture, I went and replaced both ballasts with some ATI's from BRS 2x24W or 2x39W T5 High-Output Ballast - ATI . They were alot smaller and didn't fit into the existing holes, so i just poked some new ones in and bolted them down.

what fixture are those? I could of sworn they were ATIs for a second.

 

[Trio91]

its a tek light fixture, with passive cooling.

 

[iTzJu]

ahh ok, I thought TEK lights came with programmed start ballast already.

 

[Trio91]

one died on me while back to gave up on the light, until my recent itch do something with it. So being that i replaced 1, i figured that i should just replace both of them. Here is a link for this fixture http://www.saltycritter.com/lighting/sunlight-supply/tek-light-t5.htm

 

[iTzJu]

ahhh, that makes sense.

ever thought about, just running the 2 outer T5s and removing the middle ones, cutting a hole to fit your kessil so you have a make sift hybrid?

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[Trio91]

Honestly I haven't. But I'm also not that DIY savvy so I'd probably wreck it trying to do so. But could be a fun project. Have you done that before?

 

[iTzJu]

Honestly I haven't. But I'm also not that DIY savvy so I'd probably wreck it trying to do so. But could be a fun project. Have you done that before?

I haven't but it seems pretty easy enough, just have to rewire the t5 sockets to match one ballast and then find a hole saw bit and drill the aluminum or a rotor would work.

I was thinking about doing it to my 8x24w ATI sunpower but the resale on them was not worth it for me to go ahead do that mod.

 

[Trio91]

This tank is driving me nuts. From the pests i introduced, electrocution from my ATS,.....and now I have a briopsis outbreak.

I'm thinking about using flucanazole. Any advice on this will be helpful. Will try anything at this point including any other form of maintenance.

 

[Trio91]

And some cyano

 

[Trio91]

What about hydrogen peroxide dosing? Any folks have experience with that?

 

[Mrx7899x]

I just used some flucanazole on my 50 gallon cube had a small patch of bryopsis and it wipe it out in a couple days. Just opened the capsules and poured it into high flow area 20mg per gallon

 

[Mrx7899x]

I was thinking about doing it to my 8x24w ATI sunpower but the resale on them was not worth it for me to go ahead do that mod.[/QUOTE]

iTzJu If your looking for one to mod I have a dimmable 6 bulb ATI that needs a new screen

 

[joe b]

Looks like my rock with a combo of bacteria and algae... For me peroxide is effective on some algae types but on long term dosing I noticed decline of coralline and dulling of color on some acros. I still dip some plugs and use it for cleaning but I don't add it directly to the tank no more. Had great results with Flucanazole on bryopsis... I used this around this time last year and I needed 2 treatments over a few month period with no negative effect on corals and haven't had any bryopsis in over 6 months. Currently I on week 7 of dosing Vibrant for my hair and it's slowly knocking that down with no effect on corals but now I have green cyano taking it's place.

 

[Trio91]

i ordered some ReefHD from BRS, so Im going to give that a shot. Hopefully it makes a dent

 

[Trio91]

So, it's been a few months since I've updated this. I lost all of my hard corals due to electrocution, pests and algae. So at this point, I have gone almost full softy

I have to be honest, with life and the club, i haven't had much time to give to this tank

 

[Trio91]

Time for another test

 

[diana a]

How did you electrocute your tank?

 

[Trio91]

My drop turf scrubber went on me. I noticed when I kept getting shocked from putting my hand into the tank

 

[njtiger24 aquariums]

good luck man. hopefully the test comes back well for you

 

[horseplay]

Tank looks good.