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Damn I was very close. :biggrin:

Oh ya, sorry to hear of the fish loss Wayne, that really sucks dude. LED's look great BTW, hope the tank turns around for ya I would love to see it with fish & coral in it with all that work you have but in there.

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Originally Posted by The Grizz (Post 651214)

Thanks :)

At this point I'll chock it up to a learning experience, I honestly think I rushed things a little too quick and it caught up with me. Alot of stress in the tank at that time. I'm working on aquiring frags right now and learning as much as possible to keep them healthy.

While acclimating a couple of fish I decided to play around with my optics. They are currently Carclo wide frosted optics.

I noticed the frags I've placed in the tank seem to like the light when it's about %50 - %60 on the profilux, I didn’t understand why as people are generally running this many LED's at %100 during high noon.

The picture below is bad (I know ) but you can get the general idea. The lights are set to %60 blue and %60 white. The left hand side of the picture has the optics taken off of the cool white's and the right side has all of the optics in place.

http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/...mah/optics.jpg

quite a noticable difference!!

Added BioPellets to the tank, noticed an immediate reduction in hair algae. I modded the TLF 550 reactor to work well with the pellets. Here's a video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOhMYjyBBxo

I like the right side better.

Loving the Desjardin Sailfin Wayne!

Tank is looking great! And interesting to see the difference with and without optics!

I wasn't happy with the rock at the center of the tank, Steve at Red Coral hooked me up with this piece! :mrgreen:

http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/...ah/1112112.jpg

Oh yeah! That's the piece de resistance. The rock work looked good before, now it looks killer!

Really want some of your wrasses! How are they all playing together? Is that a christmas and a pencil with your melanarus?

DROOL!

I really lucked out with the wrasses. The Melanarus was first, pencil wrasse second and added the Christmas last. They dont really notice each other and they all avoid my cleaner shrimp! (fingers crossed).

The Pencil wrasse is one of the coolest active wrasses i've ever seen. It doesn't take to pellets like the others, but snacks on the pods in the tank until I dump in some frozen.

tank is looking really good wayne.

is this the waynemah the pro rc racer of edmonton :mrgreen:?

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Originally Posted by H22_TURBO (Post 670165)

tank is looking really good wayne.

is this the waynemah the pro rc racer of edmonton :mrgreen:?

Thanks :mrgreen:

Definitely not pro, but yes!?!.

Just for fun, here is a video before I added the center rock.

lastlight -- I might need you to PM me your process for taking video with the iPhone as your quality is way better, maybe it's the LED setup?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-dvHZR18bE

I gave your video a thumbs up!!

Edit I tried to but my youtube account is EFFED! I will when I can lol

That piece of rock is sweet! I LOVE all your long spine cardinals. I'm planning a bunch in my tank as well.

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Originally Posted by noirsphynx (Post 670193)

That piece of rock is sweet! I LOVE all your long spine cardinals. I'm planning a bunch in my tank as well.

Thanks! I really like them, I really looked at all of the "schooling" fish and they seem to be the only ones that don't eat each other for fun. :twised:

The neat thing is they migrate from spot to spot in my tank, so one minute the tank looks full, the next it seems empty.

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Originally Posted by nanomano (Post 670180)

I gave your video a thumbs up!!

Edit I tried to but my youtube account is EFFED! I will when I can lol

Appreciate it! Sorry for anyone that got dizzy watching it.

I see you lost the flowerpot coral on the right. Hopefully the other survives =)

http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/...h/DSC_0604.jpg

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Originally Posted by lastlight (Post 670297)

I see you lost the flowerpot coral on the right. Hopefully the other survives =)

I just spit pop all over my keyboard...

This is not going to end well:

http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_0020.jpg

Grows like a WEED and is very close to the others. Not to mention the sweepers you never see during the day (in my experience) are likely almost long enough to hit your neighboring corals already...

Corals look great btw!

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Originally Posted by lastlight (Post 671726)

This is not going to end well:

Grows like a WEED and is very close to the others. Not to mention the sweepers you never see during the day (in my experience) are likely almost long enough to hit your neighboring corals already...

Corals look great btw!

Hmm, good times :(

It does seem to grow rather quickly. I'm still able to move it, maybe it'll have it's own rock towards the bottom! Thanks for the heads up :mrgreen:

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Originally Posted by lastlight (Post 670297)

I see you lost the flowerpot coral on the right. Hopefully the other survives =)

http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/...h/DSC_0604.jpg

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Originally Posted by waynemah (Post 670302)

I just spit pop all over my keyboard...

:lol: I almost spit out my coffee after reading that.

Tank is looking good, love the royal pencil wrasse.

Going on vacation in the next few days, I will have someone house/tank sit... I decided to cut up some vinyl for labels :lol:

I also received my probe holders from flazky. Well worth the money!!!

http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/...h/zeovinyl.jpg

http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/...immervinyl.jpg

http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/...obeholders.jpg

http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_0018.jpg

looks like you might have some red bugs?

These were actually retracted polyps, they are somewhat brown in appearance and dont move around. Good call though, I just double checked haha!

Looking good, Pics not quite as good as in person.
But then you would have people tramping through your house all the time.
Thanks for the goodies. Looking good in my tank.

Just want to say, was by Wayne's the other day and saw the tank in person.... It looks like a sexy beast. The whole dang system. Looks really good! The rockscape is great, the corals, the technology... its all awesome! Wayne, great job man!

Cheers,

Chris

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Originally Posted by Funky_Fish14 (Post 695908)

Thanks for the kind words Chris! It's always a pleasure to hang out with you!

Wayne you make me sick!

Year after year of having you kick my A$$ at racing RC cars......now your kicking my A$$ at reefing!

You suck!!!!

You are banned from Kart racing!

(Tank looks Amazing BTW lol)

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Originally Posted by subman (Post 695976)

What's a good kart to get? :lol:

I wouldn't call it "kicking a$$" but in general having more time lol (no kids yet).

Oh and thanks :)

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Originally Posted by waynemah (Post 695978)

What's a good kart to get? :lol:

I wouldn't call it "kicking a$$" but in general having more time lol (no kids yet).

Oh and thanks :)

A slow kart, like one of John's lmao

All kidding aside the tank looks great and I'm not surprised.

Wish I can come over to see this beautiful setup.

How much in total for that light setup. I am wanting to do LED's on the 200g I am building.