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02-21-2008, 09:39 AM
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First water entered the tank Dec 18......
 It took almost 2 weeks to make up the water. My 100 GPD ro/di puts out about 30 GPD. I need one of those booster pumps. Between water changes and top off it didn't seem like I was gaining much. But 140 Lbs of sand went in Dec 31.   While the sand was settling I was busy on the plumbing again. The small wall is in and here is more plumbing.  Here is the wife letting me know she is done waiting for me.....  Water is clear again.....  and here is the first rock.  I had to set up a temp light to keep the everyone happy.   
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03-10-2008, 07:57 AM
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what happened to the updates buddy.
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03-14-2008, 08:42 AM
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Been busy Colin...lol. But here we go....the problem I am having is too many projects going on at once. When I first got into this hobby everything had to done right away. Now I just cant get in a hurry.
What I am going to add now is my major experiment. Lights.   This is a 6ft Solaris I4. It requires 3 power supply's that look a lot like PC power supply's. If one ever dies you can bet I will be opening it up.   Its not easy taking a pic of a light that is on......  Here is the tank as it is today.....  And a crappy pic of the atinics......  Scott
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03-14-2008, 09:17 AM
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What you can do for setting your lights up with this very nice. Not real difficult to sort out but you need to be ready to do a little math. I think they got in a hurry to get this model out. In less than 10 days I had 5 light strips burn out. I called them and was told I would get replacements right away. 4 weeks later(still waiting) I called again letting them know I had 2 more lights out and I wasn't happy having 2/3s of a light. Replacements arrived about 5 days later. Holidays was probably the reason but I don't want to hear right away and wait 6 weeks. I'm over it.
I'm still not sure about the light. Its not in its final position and is temporally hanging over the tank. Right now I am getting a lot of shadowing but a few things are liking that. Rics, most softies and the LPS are hiding in the shadows. The LPS seem to want to mid tank or lower. The Candy Cane I have isn't happy anywhere in the tank. I have 2 10 inch yellow Fiji....one likes being at the surface and the other wants to be at the bottom. The clams.....one seems happy(enough to spawn and turn 600g so cloudy you couldn't see the back of the display) and the other is wondering all over the place. LPS is confusing so far. I have a purple bottle brush that is growing like a weed with nice color and a couple of other acros that are showing nice color. Had a couple of acro frags die within 2 days. I have bleached some cap (green and purple) and killed a red in about 2 days. I have the lights turned down to about 75% to prevent bleaching. I like the way the light looks. I like the way it works. I think I have a lot to learn about the thing and what the corals really want and like. My biggest concern so far is the heat or lack of heat. The light produces no heat for the tank. I am running 1100 watts of heaters to keep the tank at 77. The saga continues..... Scott
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03-15-2008, 05:36 AM
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I'm sure all will work out with the lights just frustrating. I really like the look of your system . It has that stealth European/Japanese look . If I could afford those lights ,I'd buy them too.
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03-16-2008, 07:39 AM
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The Euro look made me laugh......I have been trying to learn German so I can set up half of this equipment. My wife speaks Dutch so she can understand a few of the German works which helps a little. Thanks sebae.
Scott
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03-16-2008, 08:57 PM
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I am glad I saw this thread. Scott, is it the DT that you are putting the lights on? If so, how do find the front to back coverage. You said your tank is 30" wide. I am currently setting up a system that will include a 180g display. I am giving serious thought to getting the 72" Solaris I4. My concern is the front to back coverage. I can see the long term savings and am in the fortunate position of being able to consider the Solaris.
My display system will be a 180 with 2 54g bow front corner units as bookends. I plan on mainly SPS in the 180, softies in 1 54 and don't yet know for the other 54. I will plumb to a 75g sump and 65g refugium that will be housed in the basement. Maybe I should start a build thread here. I, like you, am in no rush. I currently have a 90g set up. Ward
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400g SPS tank + 75 LPS tank Remote 90g + 65g sump.
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