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My Acanthastrea autumn echinata that I grew out from a small frag will be going into tank as soon as lights are installed

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Picked up a coral box led to test out for potentially using in my t5 hybrid lighting system.. very impressive light for the money, still need to go through the programming and get my colors and lighting schedule sorted but I’m thinking a couple of these along with four t5 bulbs should do the trick for a mostly LPS dominated mixed reef.

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I don’t have any detailed pictures of the actual plumbing from refugium but it’s just like any other sump set up.. water is simply pumped from my sump up to refugium and then it flows back down into sump via the pvc overflow I made (yellow arrow)... there is some more info, pics and a link for pvc overflow construction ideas a few pages back in this build thread.

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Great information thanks! Following

Thank you for following my build thread, I have a lot going on over the next few weeks with the planned addition of some new fish and installation of my t5/led lighting system.. stay tuned for lots of updates :)
 
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What combo hybrid we doing please, I forget stuff!? ;)

Going with the aquatic life 36” t5 hybrid floating canopy.. my plan is to use two ATI blue+ and two ATI actinic t5 bulbs and I’ll be mounting two coral box LEDs in the center to push par levels up and balance colors to suit my needs.

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Going with the aquatic life 36” t5 hybrid floating canopy.. my plan is to use two blue+ and two actinic t5 bulbs and I’ll be mounting two coral box LEDs in the center to push par levels up and balance colors to suit my needs.

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Sweet, I have seen a few people doing this in journals, your corals will love you for it, start the leds off low so you don't toast anything. :)
 
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Working on lighting schedule for LED’s the t5’s will be on mechanical timers.. values are in percentages, the whites are super bright (5 watt Cree’s) so for now keeping them dialed down until tank ages some.

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I don’t have any detailed pictures of the actual plumbing from refugium but it’s just like any other sump set up.. water is simply pumped from my sump up to refugium and then it flows back down into sump via the pvc overflow I made (yellow arrow)... there is some more info, pics and a link for pvc overflow construction ideas a few pages back in this build thread.

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got it. thank you
 
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