Will Parallels work to run the Windows software on Mac, or do you need full blown OS?

Mitras works on Mac using installed MS windows.

So can you use a Windows virtual machine (through something like VMware Fusion)? Bootcamp would work, but VMware Fusion might allow OP to use the software "within" the OSX side without having to reboot into Windows.

Although by this time you would be investing in both Fusion and a Windows license and it may be better to just buy a cheap laptop as mentioned by another poster earlier.

Bootcamp is probably the route I will go.

I am sure it would also work installing windows using parallels or vmware.

Awesome build! Thanks for sharing

I've been racking my brain trying to figure out a clean way to support all this egg crate and I finally came up with a solution.

I got some black acrylic rods, cut them to size and added some groves on one end so that I could slip it into the squares. I added 9 rods per section (2ftx2ft) was the perfect amount to support the sheet.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/.../egg-crate.jpg

Nice solution to the egg crate.

Looking awesome. Can't wait to see/hear more :D

How does the pictures work out for you? Im looking to buy a hobby cam; probally just a eos t2i cannon with a 20mm macro lens and an extension tube. You must be able to take some really close big pictures with your setup. IM interested to see what comes out of your website picture wise. Keep me posted my tank has plenty of room for new corals

We haven't played with the 100mm lens much yet. All the pictures on our website were taken with a Canon T3i and 60mm EF-S macro lens. It was a great lens to work with because we could nice and close to the subject while taking the pics.

With the 100mm lens, we will need to extend the tripod much higher but that wont be a problem this time around because our tanks are not as tall anymore.

All our coral beds are filled with water and one of them is currently holding all our corals. Its going to take some time to get the systems stable to produce good coloration but it will be worth the wait. You know that they say... "you cant rush perfection". :lol:

It's christmas in September here @ Canada Corals!!!

We received a few shipments of dry-goods, Deltec skimmers for our LPS and SPS system and AquaUV equipment for our fish system.

Deltec SC2560
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...tec-sc2560.jpg

AquaUV Ultima Filter II, 800watt UV Sterilizer, 5hp Tsunami pump (16,500 GPH)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...com/aquauv.jpg

All the aluminum is cut and drilled for the fish wall. We are now at the stage of putting the beams together. We are expecting delivery on all our glass for the fish tanks next week. We are also building the tanks from scratch. Then plumbing begins. :)

So does this mean you guys will have fish as well later on for the website? :)

That's the plan.

Our goal is to design and maintain the cleanest fish system possible.

Fish health is our main priority. :biggrin:

do we get to see pics of coral in there new tank ?:) :) :)

Very soon!!!

We have a major electrical project that we are in the middle of so the tanks have a spaghetti of wiring all over the place.

We are also working out the details to get our hands on the GHL Mitra's that have been officially delivered to Michael @ Aqua Digital.

Todays project was to design and cut all the aluminum needed for our 300g in-wall display tank from 45x45 profile Bosch t-slot.

Our in-store display tank has taken the back burner due to all the other projects we are working on but weekends are slower to recharge our batteries so this is considered slow/relaxing work. :mrgreen:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...play-stand.jpg

Our long awaited shipment of GHL Mitras 6200's have arrived!

We will be using 24 lights over our coral beds and got a few extra for sale.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...ghl-mitras.jpg

We got 3 lights mounted. Here is a teaser pic!

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...l-mitras-2.jpg

My pants suddenly became much tighter :mrgreen:

Wow.. There's a whole lotta money piled right there!

Some serious money being spent there!! I look forward to seeing what kind of livestock you be offering using the new gear!!

really like that pic of the lastlight.

Unfortunately yes.

This hobby is not cheap, let alone setting up a store on a large scale!!!!

Great to meet you both and many thanks for helping out with the delivery it was greatly appreciated.

You got them up fast WOW!

It was nice meeting you also. :)

It was really simple to mount them on the t-slot. We just used M4x0.7 screws and washers with black acrylic rod with hollow center to hide the screw and it looks like a factory mounting option!

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...l-mitras-3.jpg

Wow I really like how you mounted those!!

Thats impressive.

I was thinking about the max channel allowance, try running off of one master and 23 slaves. I know you have a 6' span to the other bank but if works you have one project for the whole system and just imagine the rolling cloud cover!! :mrgreen:

I must have 2 masters because the LPS don't need nearly as much light as the SPS.

That is why we have two systems, so that we could separate them completely and provide ideal conditions for each coral type.

Makes sense ;)

Now that you have the extra space will you be selling full size colonies. Did any of your stock grow since you stopped selling to be able to frag them into pieces to sell?
How long are you going to wait before you move coral into the system?

Yes, we do plan to offer full size colonies online.

Some stock grew while other stock died. So much has happened since the move. The reason some died was because we spent more time building than we did managing water quality. We have also been purchasing coral trying to fill our beds so we will have WAY more coral for sale online than we did previously once we do relaunch.

We already have coral in the new beds. SPS coloration is not the greatest because we have new tank syndrome. It's going to take some time to mature the system.

Unlike the rest of us though I'm sure you can write off a lot of that as a business expense, no ? :-)

Love the shot of that lastlight being hung.

left me breathless...

:mrgreen:

When do you suspect on having your Online back up for Frags and Colonies?

KS

I wish I could tell you but even we have no idea.

Because every single aspect of our build is custom, it's taking way longer than we expected. We are now on the 6th month of our build witch is completely ridiculous. :lol:

We received our 300 gallon deep dimensions tank with starphire glass today.

This will be our display built into the wall. The tank measures 6ft long, x 3ft deep x 27" tall.

We are planning to light it with 6 EcoTech Radion Pros and 4 EcoTech MP40W-ES pumps all running on EcoTech ReefLink.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...0g-display.jpg

I'd go with another vertex alpha 250 and a vertex libra. I'd use a trigger sump and copy how it was done in the video. I'd skip on any vortech pumps because of noise. Check out the sump at 3.21.
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Very slick video!!!

We are actually moving the Vertex Alpha 250 from our LPS system to this 300g display. We got two of the Deltec SC2560 internal skimmers for both our LPS and SPS systems.

There is nothing cleaner looking than a vortech pump for an in-wall tank unless you drill the glass for a closed loop. Noise is not a concern because this is a commercial setting, not a bedroom.

Since this is an in-wall, there is no canopy required.

We will update this thread with more pics of the in-wall display build. :biggrin:

The electrical inspector came today and failed us. :neutral:

Apparently, all equipment used must be CSA (Canadian Standards Association) certified.

Considering that most of our equipment is made in Germany, we are out of luck. Even EcoTech Radions, Vortech pumps, Tunze powerbeads, etc.. are not CSA certified.

That leads me to believe that every single fish store in canada is in violation.

Wonderful...

Thats rubbish, the products fall under the low voltage directive. providing the power supply is certified then they are approved.

And no they do not have to be CSA they can be ETL UL TUV just not CE.