riceboy's 34 gallon shallow tank

JDigital · #1 02-23-2010, 01:11 AM

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Originally Posted by lorenz0

With the powerheads you said you wanted you won't have an issue with flow in your stank or stirring up sand

He might with a 12" tank.. I would know.

riceboy · #2 02-23-2010, 04:20 PM

so i should go with a new wave t5 lights? are there any others i should consider?

riceboy · #3 02-23-2010, 04:25 PM

oh ya and the appearance of the lights has to be nice since it will be showing on top of my tank

lorenz0 · #4 02-23-2010, 08:28 PM

How much are you willing to spend? i just reccomended the new wave since its a 8 bulb for under $300. besides that your looking at ATI fixtures which will be $400-600

riceboy · #5 02-23-2010, 09:24 PM

i guess that would be the best bang for the buck on a 8 bulb but the cost is around 300 for the light fixture plus another 200 in bulbs so thats 5 bills for the lights, kinda expensive in my books, but kevin also showed me a odyssea 250 watt metal halide with 2 pc lights for 300 and it comes with bulbs what do you guys think of that?

fishytime · #6 02-23-2010, 10:37 PM

only issue with the new waves is, they only have one cord and the reflector(though individual) are not polished.....dont knock the hagen "glo" lights.....check out what I did with two of them over a twenty...http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=31856 with three of the them over a 12" deep tank you will be able to keep anything you want.....

gonna be a sweet tank man......

riceboy · #7 03-02-2010, 12:13 AM

so i decided to keep the 3 24" glo fixture just replaced all the bulbs, currently running 2 15k bulbs, 1 fiji purple, 2 actinic, also added a koralia 2 and removed the koralia nano. have 25lbs of live rock, 20 lbs of live sand in sump and 10 lbs of live sand in main tank. and discovered that my dendros have survived the previous tank heat spike.

so it is starting to show its polyps and tenticals, but to bad i cant say the same about the rest of the corals. Any ways i have picked up a tiny yellow tang and a coral beauty and 2 clown fish from golds along with a open brain and various sps frags ( for 10 bucks per frag i can't complain).

also picked up a giant toadstool from Jeff(fragzilla) and he kindly donated another zoo frag, thanks jeff.

now to get the camera back from the gf so i can start taking pics