mseepman's 16" starfire nano

[Myka]

Originally Posted by mseepman

I still feel that you'll regret not setting that up as a SW tank. Just put everything that's going into the 40 into the cube and work slowly up from there. I don't see where you have to spend a whole bunch more money other than maybe a little more lighting.

Honestly, I am thisclose to purging all my corals. I just want to set up a productive Bangaii breeding system. I've done it all...now I'm interested in making money off it. Seriously, what would be better than to make a living off breeding fish? Pipe dreams really, but not entirely unobtainable.

To setup the 75 cube as a reef tank I would need to upgrade skimmer...or go skimmerless. And lighting would be a big factor. I would need more rock too. Basically $1000 easy...and Central America is calling my name soooooooo badly!!!

[mseepman]

Well, the urge to travel sometimes over-rides everything. Do it while you can...

[Myka]

Ya...one of these days!!! So...new updates??

[mseepman]

None to report...waiting on bulkheads and RK2 to arrive. I could hang the light but I've been working on the new house plans and finally started to get somewhere so I have focused on it.

[Myka]

Ah, gotcha! I'd be neck deep in house plans too. I of course, like that sort of schtuff.

[mseepman]

Myka, tried to hang the light, ran into some issues...pm'd you about them.

[mseepman]

Well, I got a little farther in my efforts to get this tank running today. Thanks to my brother (the extra set of hands were a must) we got the light hood on tonight. What a pain in the... No studs lined up with where my hangers needed to go, so after some ghetto modifications, we got around that...don't ask how.

Anyways...here are some pics:

This is the hood just after we got it hanging. The tank and stand will go back around 2 more inches still which will center things a little more.


Here is the tank with just the dual T5HO lights on.


Here it is with both the T5HO and the 70W 14k MH.


My RK2 arrived in Vernon today, but I was not home to get the delivery...so tomorrow I will pick it up and get to working on that.