I picked them up at Red Coral and they do ship across canada.

and just up loading pics now. :mrgreen:

I had the chance to take a few pics tonight, and just one FTS for you fiends, josh and stacey :razz: but there might be another at the end.

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the left hand side is full of cords, and i havent gotten around to getting them all neat again, lots of moving cords and extensiton cords, due to a breaker breaking and then lossing power for a half hour a few days ago.

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and also, i removed the table acro from my over flow, as it was starting to get heavy and moved it to the left side, and then moved some from the left side over. I will get a better pic once everyone settles in.


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Stylolicious:biggrin:

That reminds me of those Kodoo mobile commercials!


Tank looks amazing though!

Great pics John. That huge green tabling acro is awesome. Tank looks great, even better in person.

oh yeah, gotta get my stylo fix :razz:

same thought, haha.

thanks.

yeah she gettin big eh. your green bridnest is still looking green :mrgreen:

Hey Canreefers, hope everyone is having some good holidays and getting ready for the boxing day LFS specials.

I am enjoying some time off work now as the restraunt is closed for a few days now.

Dez (Des) was down from edmonton and had the chance to drop by my place to check out the tank after a bit we hit up golds as they got some new SPS in. i picked up a few cool pieces, 2 monits a purple and green :mrgreen: and a baby blue stag, i will post pics in the next little while.

along with (fingers crossed) a pic of the crab or shrimp that i am trying to catch, so i got a pyrex measuring cup and i placed it in the tank along with two reef discs with some nori and crushed dry food and a few pieces of brine shrimp sandwiched in the middle. its in the tank now, and the lights are off, so well see if there is a catch in the morning. :razz:

Tank looks really great how often do you do water changes and how much if you don't mind me asking?

thanks Marlin

I do a eight gallon water change every two weeks, at the same time i replace the carbon and filter sock.

Hey John tank looks awesome but I expected nothing less. This is going to be a stupid question from a beginer SW but........ what is the purpose of the carbon? I have asked several different people what all should be in the sump and the only answer i really have received is some sponge to catch larger debri. You put it in your filter sock I am guessing. I know it is highly nessesary in FW have used it for years.

thanks Greg, yup, i use a filter sock to catch what ever is loose in the water, the sock i use is pretty fine so it gets mucked up after abit so i do change frequently.

and carbon is used to remove impurties from the water. like a britta water filter carbon does.

well, there was no luck in catching the crabs the last few nights, :cry:

so i think i will try some kind of other bait to see if they will go for that.

Bummer on the crabs. Have you tried a bottle trap?

i was looking into this, and i think its def an option. i thought about getting a niger trigger as well. but would rather take out the crabs then get a new fish.

well still no luck with the crabs. So i am leavin them be.

did get some top downs tonight though. Got some damage on the first 3 pics, that i couldnt see front view of the tank. Burnt branch and the plate might surround the stag. and the chalice is losing to the confusa and fast.

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setosa, getting encrusted of the plug. :mrgreen:

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i have a invert trap you could borrow. may cost you a frag tho...:wink:

looki good john good goin. im gonna make my way down there one of these days and we should meet up

I don't know why you want to make any changes john! Awesome tank for sure!

Even tho you're tiny Kien...you still have a TOTM there! Unreal!

um.. wrong thread? (and/or wrong tank?) :lol:

Small arms. wasn't that you? Just over in my brain-dump thread?

And yeah totm. I'm sure I'll be working on that sometime this year.

Ya, small arms, that's me, but this is neither my tank nor my tank thread :lol:

Oh CRAP.

This is the wrong thread.

You guys are both TOTM material. I can't comment on Lobster's size however.

Wow you know it must be late when...:lol:

[quote=lastlight;477454]Oh CRAP.

This is the wrong thread.

You guys are both TOTM material. I can't comment on Lobster's size however.

Wow you know it must be late when...:lol:[/QUOTE



It's OK Brett. We'll let it slide this time as you were probably still in a New Year's daze. The wife sent me to the store for a dozen eggs for French Toast. I came back with bacon and milk? WTF!

I knew you were loosing your mind last night!!

:lol:very entertaining read there guys. :razz:

i just replaced my blubs 2 weeks early, as the new Kz super blues came in.

this round I went with this combo.

6 kz super blue
4 coral light 10k
4 fiji purple
2 geisseman actinc plus

Can't wait to see the KZ superblues in action.
Kevin

what is this super blue you speak of ? kz's answer to the ati blue plus ?

i took some pics, but they are coming out way too blue, i wil keep trying.


the super blue is similar to the ati blue plus. i tested the par as it came out very close.

Congrats John! Your thread has had over 17800 views!!

Thanks Josh.

so i picked up a TDS meter today, and i tested my tap water, and it came out to be 160-165. i am guessing its not the best or the worst.

so after starting up a few RODI threads, and then bailing on the idea, I got one put aside at red coral for me for thursday pick up.

It will be another week before i have to do a water change, so i guess well see.

John good for you. About time. The tap water at my end of town is aroud 179ppm and after the RODI 000 ppm. Trust me it is a good investment.

yeah, gotta move forward eh.

wow john thats crazy. ive always had RO water, accidently put five gallons of tap water in my tank one time and wow did i ever get some algea

Your tank pops with colour now wait until it gets the good water.:biggrin:

John do yourself a favor and get kevin to bring in a timer switch for your rodi unit too. I had 2 incidents involving overflowing rodi water in my laundry room until I got one. No problems since :mrgreen:

I use one of these in my RO/DI reservoir in the basement.

http://www.kentmarine.com/assets/001/20716_600w600h.png

Does a good job of cutting the water. Although, I wouldn't rely on it 100% of the time. If you know you don't need to make RO/DI for a period of time, it is best to completely shut off the supply water to the RO/DI. This will prolong the life of the filters.

+1. Use the float valve shutoff as a flood preventer when filling a reservoir, but don't use a float valve shutoff kit to regulate the RO/DI full-time. That's a lesson I needed 3 RO membranes to learn. :redface: