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[lobsterboy]

Originally Posted by lastlight

Hey Brett, looking sharp

[muck]

Looks Moar better Brett!!

Let me know when you change up to 400 watters...

[lastlight]

no moar upgrades on this sucker man. I think she's finally ready for growout time. Which means I need a new tank now right?

[parkinsn]

Looking good Brett. Didn't take you long to get that ballast installed

[riceboy]

wow that tank is gorgeous, where is everyone getting thier tanks built? i want a 2'x2'x2' cube

[lastlight]

Originally Posted by parkinsn

Looking good Brett. Didn't take you long to get that ballast installed

Lol yeah I had the canopy built the day before and I rolled into action as soon as I got that puppy home. Thanks again dude you're a reef-saver.

Originally Posted by riceboy

wow that tank is gorgeous, where is everyone getting thier tanks built? i want a 2'x2'x2' cube

Thanks this was an old setup of Jay's:

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=69699

Jay kicks glass.

[Rbacchiega]

look at dispars, bartletts, ignitus, or even lyretails. These are all ones that I was looking at for the 75 gallon, so they'd be perfectly fine in your tank...just remember that they need lotsa feeding!

[lastlight]

Levi has a pair of squarespots for sale but I'm wondering if they're a bit too active for the tank? I have no regrets about the Kole though he seems very happy.

[lastlight]

I can see I need to do more than just turn the lights off 2 hrs early. A few pieces look a little ****ed about moar light. It's also been 2 weeks since a water change too so maybe it's just that. Was too busy and missed a week.

So normally my halide ran 1 - 8 and since upgrading I've just shut them off at 6. Keeping in mind I can't raise my lights and don't want to lay anything over the tank as a difuser what should I do?

Yesterday I forgot to shut them off so tank got 7 hrs. Today I changed my program to 1-3, 5-7, 8-9.still 5 hrs but with breaks. Not sure corals sense a difference or if it's just simple hrs and 5 hrs is still 5 hrs.

Advice anyone?

[lastlight]

After thinking about it more I set it to 1-3, 5-7 for now. It's twice the wattage so to be safe I *should* run them total 3.5 hrs for equal watts over a day. 4 is 8x250w hrs just a small bump from the original 7x250w hrs. I'll ramp an extra 1/2 hour per day each week until I'm at 7 hrs again.

Unless I'm way off. Just tell me.