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03-06-2009, 04:55 AM
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Cool little project.
I may have missed it but how are you going to deal with heat and evaporation with a 70W halide over it? That is going to be quite the challenge if keeping sps since they tend to not tolerate temp. and salinity fluctuations. Just curious  
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#2
03-06-2009, 08:30 AM
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I am going to see how well the fans I am planning on using work for keeping the MH from boiling my tank.
but my plan is to start softies and see how bad evap/temp is actually sps won't be till summer/next fall unless someone has really cheap frags and I somehow grow money magicall. I havn't had temp issues with 3 23w CFLs sitting not even half an inch from the surface it stays at 79F through the duration so wondering how much worse a MH suspended at 6ish inches off the surface. and already looking making a ATO unit for the tank being how I figure do it right the first time now, cause I plan on moving this tank back home for the summer and then back here for the following years semesters. although I am wondering what do other reefers do for christmas break at college? I only ever get 12-14 days off due to my sports and tournaments for break but do people bring it home or just rely on ATOs and timers?
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#3
03-08-2009, 05:51 AM
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CORALS WOOP.
went to get a small clean up crew and ended up walking out with corals funny how that works huh. so for CUC so far I got 5 blue legged hermits and these are tiny tiny little ones not the larger blue legged, and 1 nassarius snail, and 3 brittle stars he tossed in. so now for some pics. brittle star hiding already.  GSP thats supposed to grow up the back well yet.  gorilla nips not opened yet, they are peaking out now although.  yay snail.  my small kenya tree and zoa polyp frag.  baby ric  and tiny little guy. 
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#4
03-10-2009, 05:05 AM
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well not much change yet, getting some algae likely due to the 6500k bulbs
 but my ballast should be here sometime this week yet, shipped out this morning express post so hopefully gets here quick, just waiting to find out about bulbs and I am all set for 70watss of sun.that and I held a moment of silence as a brave little blue legged hermit discovered today why one never leaves his shell and wander upto the AC200 intake, apparently AC200 impellers don't leave much to clean up he will be missed.did a quick water change after I cleaned the parts I could find out of the tank so hopefully that doesn't affect water. oh also picked up some blue eyes zoas from the reefshoppe last night as well. so till the blue eyes settle in and pose for the camera these will have to do   
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#5
03-20-2009, 03:01 AM
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well got 2 14k 70w bulbs today in the mail thanks to themikey both fired up perfectly, still waiting on a 20k ushio through the reefshoppe but till that comes in using these.
tank looks sooooooo much better under 14k vs 6500k CFLs instantly noticed a change in the zoas colours.     and now 2 comparison shots from the day before with old lighting.   can't wait to get some LPS and SPS going :O
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#6
03-25-2009, 06:43 AM
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well yet again went to the reefshoppe and kelly never ceases to amaze me with his stock, also he hooked me up with an ushio 20000k 70w DE MH bulb so now I have to decide between liking 20k or 14k more.
anyways here is pics, the hair algae bloomed due to the crappy lights I was using I figure as its already receding rapidly since I got the 14k MH its browned up and easier to remove so good sign I figure. got an orange monti cap frag, and a small pinkish acro frag, the gsp frag is starting to attack to the glass also so eventually I hope to get that to spread and cover the back corner as a living wall.   will get some tomorrow with the 20k bulb for comparison
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03-25-2009, 11:04 PM
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this is turning into a wicked little tank, the light is way better than what you had, you'll notice it in the growth and colour of your corals. just remember if you have the 20K instead of the 14K your corals will grow slower.
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#8
03-30-2009, 04:46 AM
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well went home this weekend and picked up a nice acro frag from ryan_lap, and then proceeded to go to bayside corals -_- bad idea #1,,, bad idea #2 going alone,, and finally bad idea #3 going in with cash and a cooler ready for trip doht.
but can't complain walked out with a 6 head favia frag, and gorgeous orange paly colony, the orange paly are amazing, everything opened when I was floating bags but I took a few minutes to inspect for hitchhikers so now they are ****ed off . acro actually had amazing polyp extension while I was floating as well.the gsp is covering the frag plug so quick I can check each morning and see that its actually covered more and more, no wonder its a weed for most people. anyways new pics.        and 2 final FTS from 2 viewing angles.   many thanks to ryan and colby
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#9
03-30-2009, 04:48 AM
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