Nice start!

What bulbs are you running? And are you staying bare bottom?

Running 2 x 400w radiums, and my wife says no, we're not staying bare bottom :razz:
I bought some coarser sand today ( aragmax select, I think?) and I'll add a thin layer and see what happens. Since the stream in ther now blows the hermits across the bottom, I'm not sure the sand will stay put!!

Haha I don't think bare bottom looks good either but I am tempted to try one day.

I went with the Seafloor sand but it's still blowing around a bit on the ends.. and you'll have twice my flow in half the tank. Good luck!! :lol:

Chillers are noisy and hot. Not sure what I'll do for the summer this time round right now either.

I originally was going to lay a layer of silicone down over the entire bottom and fill it with sand. Let it dry and shake off the excess, but I ran out of time. I'm not sure what teh sand will do, but gotta give it a shot.

And ya, I forgot about heat. My chiller heated my whole house this past winter!!

I wonder if there is a plastic radiator available out there. That combined with a couple of fans may make a reasonable inexpensive chiller/cooler/heat exchange.

Doug

is that a new virtual chiller you use over the computer? :mrgreen:

Looks good

Steve

no Steve, that's the nasty habit I have of hitting the space bar prematurely. :razz:
Hey, I need you to come look at something. Little brown growths tht I want to make sure aren't those things that overgrew your tank.