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Old 07-25-2008, 04:34 PM
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I'm not a camera whiz but here's a good site to research your choices:
http://www.dpreview.com/
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Old 07-25-2008, 05:23 PM
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Gorgeous tank! I can only hope down the line mine will be even half as nice. Can you tell us more about it? What equipment, lighting, ballasts you're running and such?
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Old 07-26-2008, 04:35 PM
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My equipment list is as follows;

48" X 24" x 30" Seastar tank.
30 Gal sump (small)
Teco 1/4 chiller
Euroreef 8-3 skimmer (mesh mod)
Zeovit Reactor

2 x 250 Watt Lumenmax reflector 14K Pheonix bulbs w/blue wave duel HQI
ballast.
1 x 54w T5 Giessman Super actinic bulb
1 x 54W T5 KZ Fiji Purple bulb.

2 x tunze 6100 stream pumps
1 x Tunze Wavebox
1 x Maxijet 1200 modified (crazy flow!)
1 x Mag 7 return pump / drilled sump return 1 X corner overflow
Total flow is approximately 40,600 LPH = 62X turnover

Tunze Osmolator ATO

Reefkeeper 2 controller

OA Calcium reactor PH controlled by ReefKeeper 2.

ATO top-off resovior located in furnace room through wall behind tank, auto filled via float via 5 stage RO/DI unit in garage.


Specific Gravity 1.026
Temp 79.5-80.1 (very precise) Reefkeeper controlled
Ca. 450
MG 1350-1400
DKH 7
K+ 400Mg

5% water change once per week.

All for now!

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Old 07-28-2008, 05:31 AM
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The tank looks great with lots of potential.
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Lots of potential ???. It's 99% there already

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Old 07-28-2008, 01:58 PM
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Lots of potential ???. It's 99% there already
It looks great although there are several small pieces that will look much different in time so the coralscape will change and since it looks good now it will look even better later is all I meant. I certainly was not being negative.
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It looks great although there are several small pieces that will look much different in time so the coralscape will change and since it looks good now it will look even better later is all I meant. I certainly was not being negative.
I knew what you were saying! There is many small pieces that will fill the spaces in time.
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