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Awesome effect on the backlighting!
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Inside or outside dimensions?
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Wow the new "HAGEN 600" must be cool to be the first one on the block with that baby!!
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Can you explain what you did/how with the backlighting? I like the effect and am just a tad curious about it.
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1 x kz superblue 1 x kz new gen I mounted it to my pvc rack really high up and above the halides in the back of the tank so as to not interfere with the sliding of the lights. The cords didn't reach to connect to where the timers were and have the lights in the front like normal :lol: After I fired it up I liked it tho so it can stay lol. |
I just got a chance to see & HEAR the tailspot vid, :rofl: how did you know that's was my theme song :biggrin: what fish was that doing laps around one of your power heads, that was priceless as well.
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Very nice Brett!
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nice dump Brett.....with dumps like that, you will chewing as much bandwidth as my tank journal in no time:razz:......I like how the back-lighting looks too.....kinda like LED:biggrin:
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NICE!!!!
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Thanks guys =) I'm pretty much just posting pics of your frags :lol:
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I have been following your build since November, and have read your whole thread. WOW. Great job with your basement. Love what you did with, well, everything. I couldn't post comments about your progress 'cause I wasn't there. I saw your jack-posts go up for sale so I knew you had torn down your tank upstairs. Hope the missus is happy and you are ready, or almost ready, for :x-mas: Your build is STELLAR. I hope you keep it for a long time. I am coming from FW and have been researching SW for many months...too bad for most of us that we can't build something as beautiful as yours. BTW, I love your recent pics I especially love the lighting of shots 4 and 15 Again...WOW |
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:sad:......I dont have a cool little dot.......:sad:
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Dang this tank is going to be sweet!
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Woah, I haven't looked at this for a short while and look at that! Everthing is in and even have the SPS going. Nice build! Welcome to the "lots of open space and less live rock" club. I prefer that look as well :wink:
You have a lot of frags going there, when those things get big you're going to need to upgrade again! or give them to me :P keep up the awesome build |
thanks guys =)
Yeah I'm going to have to remove some frags I'm sure. Things are more spaced than the 97 but I really like large colonies... I'm not doing too well with removal btw. I removed 3 corals from this rock. Totally scoured, scraped and cut as best I could. All 3 are well on their way back! Whatever happened to SPS being touchy? http://www.fishbrains.net/images/404/transfer14.jpg |
Brett I freaking LOVE this tank! You're set for canreef TOTM once you get some growth! The clean shaven look is nice but I'm sure you will be coated in coraline in no time!
*Cough* If there's ever going to be another TOTM *Cough*. |
My saltynuts acro is now almost a mini colony again. It was only a few months ago that I sold the giant colony snapping it clean from the rock, However the little bits of encrustation has sprouted a ton of growth tips. Wait until you have to remove giant colonies out of necessity. Looks great Brett. I think that was my favourite stage of my tank - when everything was just growing out from frags/mini colonies. Everything changes so fast at that stage. I hate the pruning/coral fighting stage - it never ends, unless you have a major crash I guess.
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The salty nuts totally got drop-kicked by the orange green formosa and the german blue digi. I made the mistake of putting some green digi behind it too! The green digi is all gone (stumps are growing back but I'll trim'em) and the salty nuts is starting to grow towards the back of the glass. Too bad it's not currently that visible from the front.
Your green shag dez is one of the ones i butchered off that flat rock. It did zero for me strangely enough. It's on the sandbed awaiting it's next post so we'll see. |
Got some serious tank envy going on here!! Amazing!!
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Let's just say what happened to my arms in the 97 would have been very very bad below the waist. The 'pox' on my arms eventually bled in a few spots and got pretty swollen. Things appear to be going away now but have some pretty red spots still. Itching comes and goes :neutral: |
That would really suck not to mention how would one explain to the spouse it is reef related. I am glad that nothing like this has happened to me.
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My squarespot isnt quite as laid back as my kole. I tried following both with the camera. Both usually swim together all day (more like kole follows and bugs him) and come to me begging for food but this gave me a laugh...
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I'm glad you brought that up I'll have to re-examine my husbandry =)
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Didn't realize that for at least 2 weeks my dusk/dawn (2x24w) have not been turning off. Guess I need to be more careful to put the timer back in auto mode after doing some extended hours viewing!
I have a toadstool of all things that has bleached or something. I'm hoping it's somehow related. Anyone know if this could have any negative affects on my fish with no darkness for a couple weeks? |
Are you sure it not just in its molting phase, Brett? My moon lights ( LED's though ) are on 24/7 because I'm to lazy to find my cheap timers :surprise:
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It's Snappy's green polyp toadstool... the thing has full extension but is nearly all white right now. Not sure I'm not too toadstool savvy.
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That does sound strange for sure......
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Yes I did actually good call.
Yeah I'm running the magnet every 2 or 3 days on all 4 panes and still finding that the coraline forms. It's all over the new rock as well. Have dull/brownish hair algae 'tufts' in a few spots on my rock which hopefully doesn't get too bad. My sand is also fusing together in a few spots where I feed (and where the fish all seem to poop) and it looks a bit ugly. I never vacuumed the 97g and the goby took care of all of it. This time around the Kole won't allow him inside that area for very long. Sorta funny but yeah it's showing! After only 2 waterchanges (things looked rad) I tried skipping a week and saving money going with one every other week. I'm already seeing the downside to this (or it's part of the whole 'new tank' thing which some people blame). Might have to go back to weekly. My changes are on the small side already for a system this size (50g or so) so maybe I shouldn't complain. |
Well you have enough salt to last you a year or better down there so quite being cheap & stick to what worked for you in the past.
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thats one thing most people dont think about.....everyone thinks "ya, I wanna huge tank!"....they seem to miss the fact that operating costs go up exponentially as well.....I know of one guy here that has a 500g display and he does a full bucket of salt(180g) every two weeks:eek:.....Laurie does 50g a week on her 700g system and I dont think that is enough....she should probably do 100g a week but that would be quite expensive .....
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Exactly Dougster!! That is something I still have to figure out how to acomplish weekly as well on the 300 when it's done. Really hard to do on a septic system but I have a few iders :wink:
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I go through a bucket about every six weeks or so, depending on how lazy I am.
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