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Old 08-12-2010, 06:55 PM
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Well I found a nice solution to my heat issues after a few days of wavering between a chiller and thowing myself down the stairs.

In the end I made a floating canopy/light skirt thingie out of the cheapest pressboard I could find, glue and ugly screws. If you've liked some of the ghetto aspects of my builds, you will LOVE this thing haha. Pics when the lights come on again tomorrow. I'm doing only a 4 hour photoperiod since everything non-sps in the tank sorta got mad after I plugged the big light in.

The key to success here was lowering my ambient temp. What I've done is taken a spare timer from my last build and plugged the window ac into it. Right now it kicks on for as long as my lights do. This has actually allowed my 3 new 120mm fans to get it back down to 79. It can do this when room temp is 23 or less I've found.

Also I'm running the lights 8am - 12pm as it's cooler than late afternoon. I will likely shift/extend that soon. I'm thinking 10-6 may be my goal.

In other news my royal gramma's eye did heal itself. Then it disappeared. I'm honestly so frustrated with fish as the last 3 I've added have jumped or vanished. I'm still left with my blenny and 2 chromis! Maybe some things were meant to be?
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Old 08-12-2010, 10:24 PM
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This was definately the funniest thing I've read in a good while.

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Well I found a nice solution to my heat issues after a few days of wavering between a chiller and thowing myself down the stairs.
Your tank is coming along very Brett. You've got some amazing growth out of those SPS in just 6 short weeks. Looking foward to seeing the pics of your new canopy.
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Old 08-13-2010, 01:18 AM
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I would say that everyone should have a cover of some kind or at least edges the go up 6-12" past the water level.
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