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06-21-2008, 06:13 PM
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OH NO! He was a beautiful fish
 Sorry to hear, Catherine.
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06-22-2008, 02:50 AM
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Seriously today is not my day.....
I just found the fishbones that belonged to my powder grey tang....
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06-22-2008, 03:32 AM
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06-22-2008, 03:36 AM
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Jeez that sucks. Sorry to hear
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06-22-2008, 04:35 AM
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In light of such a terrible day we still decided to go ahead with a few plans this weekend. 1) 2nd reflector is up and running, we are still without a second 250w bulb so we've put the 175w XM 15K bulb on the left side of the tank temporarily. 2) I started making a rock pillar. I glued a few sets of rocks together, and left it at that. I want to make sure my method works before I go and glue everything and do some more finalized aquascaping. I'll post up before and after photos tomorrow. 3) Our new and much larger Calcium reactor is just a single set of plumbing parts away from going online. Kevin spent the evening make changes to our dual chamber reactor we used on our 230g. He cut it down from two chambers to one, and is now in the middle of changing the plumbing set up. We opted for the single reactor for space saving purposes, and because I don't know if we will need two chambers between now and a year from now. Again, more photos tomorrow. Photos; Before  After   Last edited by michika; 06-22-2008 at 04:42 AM.
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06-23-2008, 04:11 PM
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UPS tells me my lighting packages should arrive to me by the end of the week. I got out our Workhorse ballasts so they are in easy reach. Now we just need the package to show up.
I also adjusted our lights, since I'm out later and later now due to sports we've move the MH schedule to 12pm-8pm. How should I adjust this schedule once we have the T5s online? I'm hoping for maybe a total of 12 or 14 hours of light, but I'm not sure if that is appropriate for my SPS. I've never run T5s before. Lighting will be 2x 250w MH, 8x 24w T5s. Can I run my MH for 6-8 hours and then my T5s for the rest of the time? Is this going to be too much light? I'm hoping for something along the lines of: 9am-12pm T5s 12pm-8pm MH 8pm- 11pm T5s Yesterday we were at the Calgary Zoo for a Behind the Scenes with the Giraffes. The stingray exhibit still isn't open. We headed to the butterfly conservatory, and then had to head home. I would love to spend a whole day there, but the good days for us to go, aren't so good for Kevin job-wise. We fed two of the four giraffes at the zoo, Mardi and her son George. The other two didn't come over to see us while we were there. Mardi  George   A random photo from inside the aviary where the butterfly conservatory is housed. 
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06-23-2008, 04:59 PM
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I've always just kept my lighting to a max of 12 hours. In the tropics it's more or less a steady 12 hours year-round, I'm sure there is some seasonal fluctuation but to me it just seems "better" that if you have a, say, "summer peak" of 14 hours daylight that you should correspondingly have a "winter peak" of 10 hours. Have I any studies to back up my opinion? None whatsoever! Just a subjective opinion on my part. I avoid the issue altogether by saying "Ok, my tanks are exactly on the equator and have 12 hours daylight total year-round."
 I run my lights from 10:30 to 22:30. I've often thought about shifting this a little later for the sake of being able to see my tanks longer in the evening since I'm usually up to 12 or 1 anyhow but for me it's just easier to coincide the tank lights with real daylight. (For example on days where I don't work then it becomes weird that I can't see the tanks before noon. But also light comes in through the windows and stuff so daylight will always be brighter than non-daylight no matter what I have the timers set at, so might as well set them close to the real thing and just deal with it...)
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