120 Gallon Progress

[addam4208283]

nice job on the stand, i like the fixtures you used. do you plan on starting fresh, or are you going to move stuff from other tanks>
ADAM

[NanoReef]

addam, some of the stuff from my 20 is going to go in it but i think im going to keep the 20 going for smaller zoo frags. so we made lots of progress last night...i held up my end of the bargain and drained my 90 gallon. we also got the tank and stand were we want it. Here are some pictures....what do ya think?
first is my empty 90!

here is the tank on the finished stand....let me know!

[NanoReef]

oops, another thing i was going to ask was what would be the best photoperiod for this tank??? i have lots of timers i can set the actinics and HQI's on at 2 different times...what do you all think???

[Skimmerking]

depending on what time you would like to start looking at the tank.

I would go with.
Actinic on 0700-0900
actinic off at 0900
MH on at 0900- 1900
actinic on at 1800-2000
MH off at 1900
actinic off at 2000
night light on from 2000-2300
dark til o500-0700



hope this helps
mike

[NanoReef]

ya mike that helped. i have a question though? why do you turn the actinics off during the day??? wouldnt you want them on the whole time the HQI's are on???

[Skimmerking]

Well I have a FOLWR and i not home for the duration of the lights being on. With that I have no corals in the tank so I dont require actinic all the time.

ANd It saves on buying Actinic every 6months. I only have to buy them every year or something like that, I'm cheap like that.

But with HQI your bulbs are 14K already arent they. If so you can run them all day or part of the day depending on the blue effect you like. shouldnt be a problem. If you had 6500K iwasaki bulbs or 10000K bulbs then you would need actinic's on all day to take out the yellow or to balance out the white....


mike

[NanoReef]

my HQI's are 10K but i want to upgrade to a 14K of a better brand....who do you suggest? o ya! i will be filling up the tank in 2 weeks!!! we decided to run my sump through the wall into the spare room! we will see how it goes

[Skimmerking]

Go with www.prairiereefsupplies.ca talk to Quinn he has HQI bulbs pretty cheap that he can get in. PM me i will give you his number and email addy ok .

As for the sump you will love it being on the other side too. Now you can run a refugium thur the wall that is dropping into the tank instead of the return going to the sump.

2 weeks get your dad going on filling it up come on man. Don't make me come over there after my surgery to get you and your dad going on this,....

[mr_alberta]

Here's my photoperiod:

Actinics & Actinic White : 8:30AM - 7:30PM
HQI - 11:30AM - 4PM

You'll be surprised, but you really don't need your halides on for super long photoperiods.

[NanoReef]

why dont you need the halides for a long time?? the actinics do it fine for majority of the day??? also, check out my 2 new little guys. here they are! and yes i know i have an alge prob! im looking for a small skimmer for this tank... here they are!
Green coral goby

and my yellow tang....(the size of a toonie!) checking out the hermit!

sorry i couldnt get better pics but these guys never sit still!!!let me know what you think! (as usual)