Hey man can this light be enough for a 60 gallon 4ft long tank ? I currently have 2 50 watt nicrew lights but im not too happy and my torch and even acans are dying.
I wouldn't use these for that shape tank personally - an Evergrow IT5012 would be a much better choice. Or maybe a 48 inch AI Blade. But for what it's worth, unless your lights are turned up too high, I'd bet money that won't be what's killing your corals...
@@ReefDorkXtra i did an aqua spin test at my lfs and phosphates are at 0.3 i think that is a huge problem so im doing a big water change and adding chemi pure blue. Any thoughts?
Hi, if you could please answer, would this pump work if it was only 60%-70% soaked in water? im wondering if i can use this in my paludarium but the height of the return chamber is around 10cm. And if so, will it make noise if it isn't entirely under water? Thanks!
@@ReefDorkXtra thanks for the quick response! So it would also be quiet?? Not sucking in air? It's for a constant water circulation paludarium so if it gets hot by not being submerged, it may be an issue 😅
Long-term update! I sold this after 2 years when I broke down my tank. No problems to report - RF stuff can have connection issues but for whatever reason this never did. It ran fine with no problems and the roll change process was easy - I've made a video showing that process here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kxv8Rikr1bI.htmlsi=hEruWSErpAoHN8zA Build quality-wise, it held up with nothing breaking. The end of roll notification is useful, but it's very inaccurate - when it said I have 7 days left, it was more like a 6 weeks! The roll lasted about 6 months on a 40 gallon tank in which I fed one cube of frozen per day. The water clarity was always very good on that tank and my average nitrates over the last year were 17.2. Nitrates did bottom out a couple of times but that was because of my refugium. Hard to say for sure, but I think this will have SOME preventative impact on nitrates, but if reducing nitrates is your goal, this isn't the best. But if you just want water clarity, with a small benefit to nitrates, this is great.
Thanks for the great information it helps a lot . I'm sold and going to get rid of my 2 x gen 4 pro and 2 x gen 4 . I do tank setups and maintenance so lets see how the coral growth is. What i like is the par reading on these lights as you showed. This will save on electricity by not running on 100% all the time. The other factor is the heat sinks are working excellent as your demo by getting rid of excess heat. This way again your led chips will last so much longer. With the amount of repairs I'm doing on gen4 pros and gen 5 range its crazy . Thanks again for the information its highly appreciated. I'm all the way from South Africa.
Hey alex! I am considering using this over a IM mighty jet. Any updates since the original post? Im reading the comments here and the reviews on BRS and its making me a little hesitant.
At this point I was using a Sennheiser mke 600 into a Zoom H6. I've since upgraded my soundproofing and have switched to a Sennheiser MKH50 which is noticeably better
I recently bought an mp40 and love it the mobius app is great! I had bought two reef wave 45’s originally over three years ago because they were cheaper. and I had no end of trouble with them probably paid more repairing them than what I would have buying mp40’s I would be very wary buying any Red Sea products now.
Also couple months ago my Ecotech versa m2 pump stopped working so I’ve changed to ai xis 90 model because it works on mobius app but I forgot about the battery back up option will this lithium alternative connect to ai axis model ??
I think that one should compare Kalkwasser rather with Carbocalcium than with AllForReef🦊 than, AllForReef and Carbocalcium are both based on Calcium formate = the formic acid salt of Calcium. I wonder why Calcium Citrate, Calcium Acetate, or Calcium Lactate are not used. One can buy all these salts from chemical companies. there is however a video about a calcium reactor that uses vinegar instead of CO2: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sC8FtsXnAvg.html This would produce calcium acetate.
Excellent video my Ecotech backup just didnt backup after 3 years, I ordered and installed this and it works great backing up 2 x MP40's in East Sussex :)
There's probably a point you don't want to go below - the Intra labs stuff is fine but if that's not available where you are, ask on a local Facebook group what people buy in your country
Hi Reef Dork, i’m struggling between The Reef Flare Pro and a Radion XR 15 Pro. They got different blue colours (at least according to the Name). Do you notice a big difference between Indigo and Royal Blue?
Any 2 part dosing system will increase your salinity but it should be very minimal. But all sorts of stuff does too so regular testing and adjusting is the way.
Yip I buy from the same place Alex , also I mix my own calcium and Alkalinity saves you alot of money. Trace elements from tropic marin 1. 2. 3. Easy. All in a 5 ltr containers. Alkalinity 500g sodium carbonate 25ml trace 3. Calcium 2000g 25ml trace 1 25ml trace 2. Magnesium 2000g
Well said, sir. It's amazing how cheaply you can dose a tank. I use Arm and Hammer washing soda (sodium carbonate) for alkalinity dosing. You get about 3.5 lbs for $4 here in the US. Been using it for years with clean ICP tests. It mixes slightly cloudy, but it's around 20% of the cost of BRS "pharmaceutical" grade sodium carbonate. Too many folks drinking the proverbial KoolAid. As long as there's no serious toxins/metals in your additives, everything is good to go.
I have been mixing my own Alkalinity, Calcium & Magnesium for many years following the formula given by Esox on Ultimate Reef. His formula for the magnesium mix is slightly different from yours: 130g Magnesium Sulphate Heptahydrate with 92g Magnesium Chloride Hexahydrate to 1 litre of RODI. The other two elements are much easier with just one item per litre. The only other thing that I do differently now is to use a small power head or pump to continuously agitate the water, I’ve found it’s more stable when transferred to the dosing bottles.
Afaik this is only the case when you use 2 compounds together where one has sodium and the other one has chloride in it. For example sodium carbonate and calcium chloride. When you use those two together your corals will use up the carbonate (alk) and calcium ions and what's left is sodium and chloride = NaCl = Salt
This will slightly lower the sulfate concentration in the tank. Some magnesium additives are a mix of magnesium chloride and magnesium sulfate for that reason.
Hello, I am writing from Italy and I apologize if my English is not correct. Congratulations for the very useful video as was the one that explained how to replace the original battery. I would now like to purchase this lithium battery backup system for the same Vortech MP 40 pumps. I have to get two. The link rightly takes me to the Amazon website UK, but only some indicate products can be shipped to Italy. I therefore kindly ask you to confirm that the products are this one: Lithium Battery: TalentCell Mini UPS Uninterrupted Power Supply 27000mAh 98Wh Lithium ion Backup Battery with DC 12V/9V/5V Output Adapter plug: DC Power Adapter 5.5 mm x 2.1 mm to 3.5 mm x 1.3 mm, DC in line socket Female to DC Male Plug, Coaxial Power Converter for CCTV Equipment, Video Surveillance Camera, LED lights, Notebook, PC I wouldn't want to order something similar but wrong. Thanks and congratulations again!
Worth noting that AFR is DRAMATICALLY cheaper when you purchase it as a powder and mix it up yourself. Comparing just the liquid AFR price against Kalkwasser is a worst case scenario... I'd personally never really recommend buying the liquid unless you absolutely refuse to mix it up yourself (in which case you probably wouldn't want to use Kalk anyways). Solid video, brother!
How's the pump getting on? Looking to get one for my 180L but I'm not sure what size to get because you're running the axis 20 in that little 12 gallon at 70%
I sold it after 6 months of having no problems, but the buyer set it to 100% and it wouldn't work, so I'm sending it back to get repaired/replaced. So I've had 2 of these now and they've both developed faults. But for what it's worth, I've just bought the 90 for my 100L tank. If I were you, I'd go for the 90 on a 180L.
What's with these cloackly geezers using the finger? I'm assuming they weren't happy to be making this video, even though their channel seems to be reef, and by extension aquarium stuff the last guy was also water based, in the case of the ro/di for pure water, both being water based. Is it something in water circles that makes them bitter to be making their video, like what crawled up their assholes to annoy their viewers so many favorite comments LOL
@@ReefDorkXtra my tank has been running for about 8 months i have around 20 lps corals and 2 big gsp rocks. Can you look at my latest short video and let me know what you think if to dose kalk or afr please im still learning.
@@Coral-reef. I won't be able to tell, but if you have that many corals you'll definitely need to dose something - best way to find out is weekly tests for alkalinity, calcium and magnesium
@@ReefDorkXtrahey man im still confused about this. I dont have a automatic top off i do top off manually so how do you recommend i dose kalkwasser since my ph is low at 7.4
Are the little red nipples on the ends there to try to reduce crusting up? I haven’t fitted them on mine, but have considerable buildup from my RZ Complete…
Alex you as always are to hard on yourself. The net look spectacular and those point you have mentioned been not nice I couldn't have told before you said it. It looked to me as it was meant to be ! Good job 👏
