My Rio 125 Ltrs

[stumpy316uk]

this is my second marine tank. first was a 45 ltrs tank. i now have a juwel rio 125 which has bin running for bout 6 months or so. lights is 2 aquarays reef white i have a aqua one aquis 700 ext filter which is only used for carbon and rowaphos korilla 2 powerhead and inturnal uv. v2 200 skimmer. got bout 13 kg of LR and sand bed is bout 3 inch deep. different corals going from soft corals to lps like zoas mushie torch and frogsprawn. 10 hermit crabs bout 16 snails 10 tubros and 6 nassarius snails 2 cleaner shrimp 1 peppermint shrimp.3 peacock wrasse dot dash flasher wrasse yellow headed jawfish chirstmas goby royal gramma 2 clowns and a sailfin tang. thats everything i think. last result were nitrate 0 nitrite 0 ammonia 0 sg 1.025 cal 460 ph 8.3 kh 9 let me know what u think.

 

[Harry1996]

nice tank but the tang will get to big for your tank are you going to upgrade it when its bigger?
i love your coral i got some yesterday for my juwel rio 125 tank.

 

[stumpy316uk]

i will be upgrading but won't be for a year or so. when he gets to big i will rehome or look at upgrading

 

[stumpy316uk]

hey just added another aquaray to my tank looks alot better now. its the marine white

this is before

and this is after

not going to run the new lights for 9 hrs. going get them up to 9 hrs slowly so not to shock anything

 

[Harry1996]

im thinking of going to buy some LED aquarays and i would like to know what do think if yours? do you think they are better than t5 or worse?

 

[AdAndrews]

im thinking of going to buy some LED aquarays and i would like to know what do think if yours? do you think they are better than t5 or worse?

im also intrested in them, can you get a pic to show how you have fixed them and where

thanks

 

[sorgan]

They come with mounting brackets are are really easy to mount, I have one with my 2 T5's but will go full LED soon.

The blue ones add an amazing shimmer when used with whites.

 

[stumpy316uk]

got abit bored this afternoon so i got abit snap happy lol here is some of the better pics and a little video of the tank in sunset mode.
hope u like them
xmas goby

the evil one lol

sailfin tang

the sunset video

 

[stumpy316uk]

AdAndrews and Harry13 sorry its bin awhile since my last post bin abit busy. tbh i think they r ace they r dead cheap to run and the light output is really good. i have 2 reef whites and a marine white. reef white have 3 white leds and 2 blue leds marine white is all white leds. u can buy the mounting rails for them has they don't come with the lights i will post a pic soon so u can see have i have them over my tank. has sorgan said the shimmer is great with the reef whites. the video clip i have posted is just of the marine whites and look at the shimmer. tbh i have never use t5s so i don't know. but they r well worth the money and would recommend to anyone thinking of going led. hope this helps

 

[stumpy316uk]

just a quick pic of how my aquaray fit my tank. tank is a rio 125 and tmc do a rail which is 79cms and the tank is 80cms so fits like a glove really or u can hang them and u can buy the fitting so they fit into the rio light hood its self if u have got the t8 light hood

 

[Harry1996]

thanks this helps a lot so i have the t5 type and so could i put them in the lid so i can keep the lid down? also i was thinking of the other type as well i think they are called aqua bam 1000 here is a link http/www.reefstore.co.uk/cart/Aquabeam-1000-HD-Ultra-Reef-White-pr-17959.html this place is very good i have brought stuff from them before and they are cheap. can you fit the aquabeam 1000 in the hood?

 

[stumpy316uk]

i don't think to can with the tiles with the size of them plus i know someone who has got three of them and they give out loads of lights but i don't think the shimmer is has good.

 

[Harry1996]

i might get one of the tile ones and get 2 of the ones you have? that means i could keep any coral because the tile ones (aquabeam 1000 hd) say thay are the same light or even more light than a metal halide. (150w)

 

[stumpy316uk]

yeah sounds a good plan m8 i have got lps under mine and they r loving them haven't tried sps yet going to tho. u will get loads of coral growth with them. where u from if u don't mind me asking

 

[Harry1996]

Im from ipswich and i live in woodbridge