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03-24-2012, 04:54 AM
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On the move again...!
Well, if you ever needed convincing that there are a million things that can seriously delay your build...
Things were all on track, I had my LEDs and all I needed to do was build the light, then this happened....     And as if that wasn't enough we bought this  which turned out to need a whole new subfloor and ended up like this...  Which has delayed things just a little..... But finally I got around to building the light..  The LEDs have optics on them now too, but I don't have any photos of that, but they're quite bright. Speaking of the heatsinks, I built my own from a couple of different sizes of U channel bolted together. I drilled a lot of holes and filed them together with a rat-tail file to create slots for convective cooling. I did this to try and get the heatsinks to help cool themselves rather than having a big stagnant lump of hot air stuck on top that needs a fan to move it. It seems to work. I'm currently driving them at 700mA on the cool white and royal blues. The heatsinks are just warm with no fans running - the fixture is totally silent which sadly cannot be said for my return pump  ..  On the plus side I now have the chance to get my 2 year old, but unused Euro-Reef RS100 going. Am impressed - there's no livestock, but it's still finding something to skim out. Not sure what though.. I've now got a couple of pounds of live rock in there to get things started and I'm dosing it with Stability to help get things established a little quicker.. I'm hoping to start moving some of the fish over from the 27 as soon as possible..
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06-08-2012, 01:44 AM
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Stocking Complete
Its taken a while but I now have all the livestock I want in the tank - well nowhere close to all I want, but all I think I'm going to have. I may add some more snails etc to clean up the sand, but that's it..
So far the list is Royal Gramma Carpenters? Flasher wrasse Ruby headed fairy wrasse (yep, the Skimmer King got me hooked on wrasses) Both are in hiding right now - I'm hoping that it's just because they're annoyed about having to share the tank with the new arrivals who zip around the tank quite a bit.. Coral Beauty Kole Tang Two Cleaner Shrimp Rock Boring Urchin Three Nassarius Four Turbo Snails One big spiky snail that I have yet to identify Small but getting larger frag of Green Star Polyps I'll try to get some decent photos up but I'm having difficulties getting things to focus properly with my camera. It's almost like the auto focus is off, but it's about ten years old so I guess I can't complain too much.. 
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SmallFry's 75 Gallon (Reef Eventually) Build Last edited by SmallFry; 06-08-2012 at 01:46 AM. Reason: Forgot the gramma
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06-08-2012, 02:04 AM
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Tank looks great...but that canoe is AMAZING!!!!
you obviously have some mad carpentry skills.
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225gal dt with 100g sump. Mitras, vortechs, bubble king, AI Sol and Profilux. http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/sho...threadid=84782 Will trade subs for frags  My other summer hobby: http://www.edkra.ca
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06-08-2012, 11:27 PM
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The trailer has changed a bit since that photo, new floor and all the inner skins have been taken off and reinsulated. It will be going back to its original layout except for a tweak or two at the front. I'm going to strip and rebuild or repair the original furniture where I can and invent the rest.. I'm really lucky that the in-laws have a farm where I'm able to keep it while I work on it. That size of project would have been impossible otherwise.. Once I'm done with that I get to finish the basement and replace the kitchen...
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06-09-2012, 12:07 AM
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That canoe is a work of art! Great craftsmanship SmallFry.
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