Hey Bill, that last pic of the side tank shot with the multiple locline returns looks sweet. Gives me ideas for my next tank.. :wink:

Nice! Your tank is doing very well.

That last shot is stunning . Great tank ,great photo !!
.................Dave.

Phenomenal thread! I love how the stand came out.

Can you do a close up shot of the control pannel?

Thanks everyone!

Catherine - I have a few things off line right now and I'm changing a few things, I'll get a pic up before too long.

Time for an update.

I haven't discussed lighting yet, I have MH, VHO, T5 and moonlighting.

I have a 250w MH 10K XM above the coral wall side and a 400w MH 10K XM abouve the Anemone, both driven by magnetic ballasts.

I also have 3 x 48" 110w and 1 x 36" 95w VHO Super Actinics run off a Ice cap 660

& 2 x 54w T5 (1-10k & 1-actinic) by Tek and 2 x 1w Blue LED by Aqualight

Giving me about 1185 watts of lighting. :mrgreen:

Here is the lighting schedule from the ACjr programming.


If Time > 09:30 Then VHO ON
If Time > 21:30 Then VHO OFF
If Time > 11:30 Then MHs ON
If Time > 19:30 Then MHs OFF
If Time > 10:30 Then T5s ON
If Time > 20:30 Then T5s OFF
If Temp > 79.9 Then EAN ON
If Temp < 79.0 Then EAN OFF
If Temp > 84.0 Then MHs OFF
If Time > 11:25 Then EXH ON
If Time > 20:00 Then EXH OFF

EAN is the fans in the unit.
EXH is the exhaust fan under the house that sucks out the hot air from the canopy.

VHO only
http://www.zld.ca/reef/cvho1.jpg

T5's only
http://www.zld.ca/reef/ct51.jpg

VHO & T5's
http://www.zld.ca/reef/cvt1.jpg

MH's only
http://www.zld.ca/reef/cmh1.jpg

VHO & T5 & MH
http://www.zld.ca/reef/cal1.jpg

VHO only
http://www.zld.ca/reef/vho1.jpg

T5's only
http://www.zld.ca/reef/t51.jpg

VHO & T5's
http://www.zld.ca/reef/vhot51.jpg

MH's only
http://www.zld.ca/reef/mh1.jpg

VHO & T5 & MH
http://www.zld.ca/reef/alllighting1.jpg

Wow you've got a lot of lights crammed in there :wink:

Thats pretty impressive just looking at the photos of the T5's alone. The XM bulbs look pretty yellow without the supplementation. I tried some XM's earlier this year but unfortunately one was white and one was yellow.

The tank is looking great, I see a lot of new corals in there (and not many of the old). Did I miss something or did you redo the tank?

Yeah, those pics were from last year. I still have most of the corals now they are just bigger and some are in different places. :biggrin: This is the most recent pic I have from last month, I'm going to get some more pics today hopefully.

http://zld.ca/reef/fscu0022.jpg