Dougs Reef

[Doug]

Originally Posted by christyf5

Looking good Doug. Why is that skimmer still in the box? No love I tell ya, no love!

Nice lobo, we hardly ever get them around here. Oh and what are you using for bulbs? I'm liking that blue

Ya I know. What the heck good is a nice skimmer like that in a box in the corner. My old Coralvue is skimming pretty good but I will get around to it.

The bulb is a 14k 150w HQI. The Lumenmax 3 pendant is the difference maker in my opinion. I have ran that version bulb is a couple different fixtures and none looked as good as in this pendant.

I also believe the 150w electronic Galaxy is driving it brighter than my HQI type ballast, which I think is backwards ?

[Doug]

Cant believe I did that. Added sand to my tank yesterday. May get a pic today. My Rainford goby is happy. He does not have to sift the detritus build up anymore.

Cant say Mrs. clown is similary pleased. Even though I left their area in front of their house and baby making area clean, she is still determined to move it all around. Mind you, she has basically only seen a bare bottom in "her" tank, most of her nearly 8yrs.

Now, I need stupid sand clean up creatures. Hmmmm!!

[Doug]

My new SWC sump. Has fresh water reservoir on right side, float switch and pump. Nice and solid. Black silicon.



SWC 160 come skimmer. Absolutely dead quiet. Easily adjusts and cleans. Impressed so far.



Closer collection cup pic. 2 days since last cleaning.

[Skimmerking]

holy crap how much was that sump doug

[Doug]

Originally Posted by asmodeus

holy crap how much was that sump doug

$150 Mike. Total volume is about 28g. Float switch and 12v pump was another $79. Decided to use it instead of my new Osmolator, so going to likely sell it.

[Doug]

My Tank is finally doing half decent again, after the sps fiasco. Still grows film algae easily but not like it was. Picked up the few corals I had left from a friend and some frags from his tank, plus bought some nice frags from Mike.

All doing well so far. Received some dandy snails from Kevin @ Red Coral. Making short work of any film algae and as a matter of fact I leave it on the front glass for them so they wont stave. Look like a bunch of compact cars in my tank.

Not to mention the beautiful acro frag, he sent me. Thanks very much Kevin. Nice order, well packaged.

Going to take some pics soon, when I have 5 min.

[Lance]

Alright! Glad to hear things are turning around for you Doug. Nice looking sump.