What type of Butterflies are those Steve?

Just copper treatment for parisites.

Your camera sounds interesting, I'll have to check it out when my frag is ready :boink:

Golden, not reef safe in the slightest way.

:lol: I got some more of the acrylic plugs today from OC. I'm going to try to get you a bigger frag than the ones I've got. They're around 1.5 inches, which is too little (I think).

Oh, I just that about something. Is it to use as a test to see if anything eats it? In that case, smaller might be better?

It won't be a test although it could go that way but hopefully not, either way smaller ones are fine, it grows fast.

The return line branches into three lines that enter the tank through the rear Euro-brace and extend down to the base to push water upwards. I coated the lines with purple primmer and then painted them back. This way if urchins peal off some of the paint it will be dark purple underneath rather than white.

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ya baby looking sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet stevie

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Odd question but are you using a wine cooler or a wine rack? Only reason I ask is if the bar fridges rears are left open to vent into the wine racks all of your wine will be warm when you go to grab it.

Wine cooler on the left, beverage cooler on the right and a wine rack in the middle. Should be about 12" of space behind the coolers and there's space behind the tank for war air to naturally vent out. Wine rack should remain around room temp which is how I like red wine. I'm not expecting a heat issue there but I'll keep an eye on it once it's all setup.

The view from above
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And from the front

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Tank is lit with two LED spotlights so just bright enough to get an idea.

Well I braved driving 30km one way in a blizzard to pick up my mail, well worth it :mrgreen:

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Picked up
3 GHL Mitras
1 upgraded Profilux 3
2 New float switches
2 Used Tunze 6105s (Thanks John)

Now I just have to magically find a bunch of time this weekend to hook everything up.

Can't wait to see those Mitra's all lit up!
Great looking build Steven

You and me both, tank is currently lit with 2 measily T5s

WHOA! Sorry to hear about your crash :-(

Seriously tho, those Mitras look hot!

:pop2:

They come with sunglasses?

Yeap

I have a severe led addiction problem....I have radions, Vega's and a sol on my tank now but I'm starting to want to sell them all and get Mitras.

(I'm a complete moron)

more pic Steve lets go

Howzabout reef meet at your place? I need a tour of your plumbing maze and those crazy sweet looking lights.

Seems like fairly typical OCD reefer behavior to me :lol:

hey man looks great im obviouly lacking i didnt even know you had water in it lol

thats it....subscribed!!

is that a carbon reactor i see??:P

Carbon gives you nightmare isinit Denny? ;)

On the serious note.....................Subscribed :D

DROOOL. I'm totally jealous of your plumbing/sump setup. I hope that mine turns out the least bit as beautiful as yours! lol. Can't wait to see those lights in action!

....Do they actually come with sunglasses??... or am I missing a totally obvious inside joke haha

Let us know your thoughts on the Mitras. Been thinking about pulling the trigger on a few myself.

Wow those Mitras are hot cakes! Steve needs a Mitras meet up at his haus!

OK, lights are up

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Initial thoughts, freaking sweet! That is all :mrgreen:

Mitras LED Blurb
 

Seriously though the lights are awesome, if you're thinking about buying them you need to stop thinking and buy them already.

The spread is great, I was limited to a max of 8" (water level to bottom of fixture) mounting space above the tank due to the cabinet above. The three fixtures easily cover every area of the tank which is 62x32. Two lights may even be enough but three seems like the right amount for this tank.

Color blending is flawless, you can't see any disco effect at all, even will all colors active. To make sure my eyes haven't just adjusted to LEDs I used my camera to test, it also had issues with manual WB set with LED tanks, no issues with these fixtures.

Color is awesome, you can't go wrong as you can set to any spectrum you want.

Brightness, they do in fact come with sunglasses.

Software is probably my favorite part, the composer feature is sooooo slick. You can set what seems to be an infinite amount of points and define preset or custom CCTs for different times and brightness levels and each color channel is automatically set accordingly. It's actually quite overwhelming at first yet still very easy to use. It's something you can play with forever but I just don't have the time right now to go to town just yet so I can't say much more but you can easily save your composer settings so I suspect sharing will become pretty popular.

They of course all connect wireless to each other and to the PC with a temporary cable for programming, this procedure was 100% flawless for me.

The fixtures themselves are really nice, you can dim the display to whatever level you want and even have different settings for day and night. The touch key pad is really nice and on board programming is possible but I'd stick with the PC software for most of that. Single Cables are nice and have pretty slick quick connects to the power supplies which I noticed have an IP-67 rating which is nice to see.

So now the bad stuff...
There is absolutely nothing I can find with these lights I don't like or would want to add, pretty much a dream LED fixture.

A couple other updates in the fish room

The frag tank was replaced with a larger one, plumbing was changed a bit as a result and the two return pumps have been relocated in the overflow box. The upper sump was removed as I'm not feeding a tank on the main floor anymore, considering leaving the plumbing roughed in there encase this changes but it's unlikely. Still a work in progress, Profilux 3 partially hooked up but still lots to due and I still need to build and setup a new ATO for both fresh and saltwater.

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Wow this seems to be coming together quickly! The lights look awesome and sound like a great fixture. Nicely done!

Sure but note nobody has ever come to my house without telling me how far from the city I live :lol: I know where I live people! And serious not that far, it literally takes me 4 seconds to get to work.

Lol that's why u should pick us up and drive us there lol we'll break of a frag when u pick us up lol. Then none of us will complain and u get a free frag. Love the lights man and sick build.

Well I do need some frags :mrgreen: Thanks man

A couple room shots, as you can see lots to do besides the tank

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Wow, I really love how this is coming along! Your attention to detail is admirable...I know from doing my build that thinking of all these things really takes some time. Those Mitras look pretty rocking...I got to see it at MACNA and it was very nice.

does having that door right beside the tank cause any issues with direct light on the tank and an algae problem?

It's a window and it doesn't receive direct sunlight so no issues there. There is a reflection issue during daylight but I'll add window treatments once things are more developed.

OH yes I see it now, a window, OK so when you get things more finished just add some curtains. Great looking set up, and awesome fish room.

Well, in all fairness, man alive you do live way out there! Have you looked at a map? Because, wow, you live way out there. In fact, I was starting to worry I had overshot the mark and might be landing in Saskatoon shortly, but then I saw your turnoff and thought ... Ohhhhh .. he's trying to be closer to where he came from. I understand now. But wow, that really is way out there. I got in all kinds of trouble for being late to pick up my kids because I figured the detour wouldn't cost me much more than an hour but I was wrong because, wow, your place is so far out east (has anyone mentioned that? Because wow, it's way far away from anything. I'd say "anything that matters to me" but that's not true, in actual fact I store my sailboat very close to where you live, I get a smokin' deal on storage because it is so far away from anything.)

Any new pictures of the butterflies? I love C. semilarvatus, very nice choice!