Mando805's 170g Bowfront

Here is a current FTS







I am looking into lighting options, I plan on upgrading in the near future so any suggestions would be appreciated

What type of lighting are you looking into?

He definitely wants to go leds

I would look into diy then. It seems to be the best way to go. Its the cheapest and you can set it up how you want it. Im ordering from reefledlights in the next few days so i will post up my build so you can see if its the way you want to go

I think he wants to go with kessils or AI sols

Nice, looks good! Is that all the rock you bought off of me? Or did you add more?

What about radions then?

What size is that tank?

clownfish14 wrote:What about radions then?

Or Vegas. Ill have one soon to see how it looks. Should be a sweet fixture for a decent bit less than the Radions.

Yes the vegas too

When do the Vega's hit the market?

Rapid led has a knock off version of the ai sol for 220. Its the same as the super blue. I am going to do a write up of it when I get it.

I think a diy is the most cost effective way to go. The one I am getting is still diy.

If money wasn't a big issue, i would pick up radions.

dfladermaus wrote:

clownfish14 wrote:What about radions then?

Or Vegas. Ill have one soon to see how it looks. Should be a sweet fixture for a decent bit less than the Radions.

Soon as in its coming out soon? how much cheaper than the radions?

Sandman wrote:Nice, looks good! Is that all the rock you bought off of me? Or did you add more?

He had rock already but most of it was from you

clownfish14 wrote:What about radions then?

Too much money I think he is looking on RC for some used ones.

sisterlimonpot wrote:What size is that tank?

Its 170 gallons with ~100 gallon sump

dwolson2 wrote:Rapid led has a knock off version of the ai sol for 220. Its the same as the super blue. I am going to do a write up of it when I get it.

I think a diy is the most cost effective way to go. The one I am getting is still diy.

If money wasn't a big issue, i would pick up radions.

They are not available on rapid led

dwolson2 wrote:

dfladermaus wrote:

clownfish14 wrote:What about radions then?

Or Vegas. Ill have one soon to see how it looks. Should be a sweet fixture for a decent bit less than the Radions.

Soon as in its coming out soon? how much cheaper than the radions?

I was told by August (but AI is not the speediest with releases). They have officially begun preselling these and I have ordered one for testing. Pricing is MAP 499$ for color controllable version. I do not know if this includes the wireless controller. All Vegas come with wireless built in and an app for available smart phones, but they are also releasing an update to their controller and I believe a dongle to add to old Sol and Nano models. They also have a new rail mounting system that is out now. I'll let you know when I get my Vega.

They need a better rail anyways. I was disappointed when I received my rail. I had to drill my own holes, which I believe is a poor design.

Sandman wrote:They need a better rail anyways. I was disappointed when I received my rail. I had to drill my own holes, which I believe is a poor design.

Yeah, I had a lot of complaints about the mounting systems they employed. The Nano was sold with such a crappy arm. Waste of time and money. The new rails look very nice.

Sorry to derail your thread!

Awesome tank Mando, I love bowfronts. It looks familiar...did you get it at Tats in TO?

yea thats where he got it

sure did bro.

sorry everybody for not getting back to you right away I thought i would get e-mail alerts aaaaaand thats not happening!! :0/
Thanks Cory for stepping in bro good looking out.

Got some new fish today

Lamarks angel

Flame angel

Update:

Everything is doing well in my tank except I did lose my bi color foxface. My flame angel is eating everything and not picking on corals and my lamarks angel is doing great as well. Today I picked up a nice Blue spotted Jawfish and super nice purple tang. I will post pics later when I get them in my tank.

My fish list as of now:
1 Purple tang
1 Blue hippo tang
1 yellow tang
1 lamarks angel
1 flame angel
1 diamond goby
1 mandrin goby
2 fire fish gobies
1 bangii cardinal
4 pajama cardinals
1 square back anthias
1 blue spotted jawfish

that's a nice list, can't wait to see some updated pics

Soft update

My fish list as of now:
1 Chevron tang
1 Red sea sailfin tang
1 Blue hippo tang
1 yellow tang
1 lamarks angel
1 flame angel
1 diamond goby
1 mandrin goby
4 pajama cardinals
1 square back anthias
1 blue spotted jawfish

So cory and I re aquascaped my tank today

Looks good!

Mando,

things are looking great. You let Cory mess with your tank?? oh no!!!

I don't know the names of those anthias that has a purple square on their sides but I always wanted to get a couple of those.

Mondo- Is your Manderin eating prepared food? If not, are you adding pods?

Sandman wrote:Looks good!

He said thanks!

sisterlimonpot wrote:Mando,

things are looking great. You let Cory mess with your tank?? oh no!!!

Hey there I take offence to that! JK

sisterlimonpot wrote:I don't know the names of those anthias that has a purple square on their sides but I always wanted to get a couple of those.

Its called a square back anthias they would be a great addition to your 300 but they would be a little big for your current tank they get huge like almost tang sized

Sandman wrote:Mondo- Is your Manderin eating prepared food? If not, are you adding pods?

Dude this thing eats everything from pods to frozen to flake and even pellets!

So today I picked up 2 MP40wes's and I stopped in at Vivid Aquariums with cory and ordered my new lighting! I have Decided to go with the Aqua Illiumination Vegas. I chose this because the par on AI units are great and I love how the are 100% wireless. I will post pics as soon as I get them and put up over the tank.

Alright so it has been a while and I have had a bad run with my tank. I ended up loosing My purple tang, yellow tang, lamarks angel, flame angel ], diamond goby and square back anthia This was due to overfeeding and lack of water changes that had my nitrates through the roof. On the upside I did get my AI Vegas I only got two to see if it was enough but it is defiantly not and I will be getting a third. Here are a few pics.

Nice, how do you like the vegas so far?

oh and I don't think that overfeeding and high nitrates would kill your fish. your nitrates would have to be way way way up there for fish to take notice.

His nitrate had to have been over 400 because a couple of fish died and he never found them and he has no clean up crew.