180G Office Reef Tank

[michika]

Originally Posted by kien

[JDigital]

I thought kien had a monopoly on Popcorn.

[kien]

Originally Posted by michika

^
|

synchronized popcorning!!

[JDigital]

Originally Posted by JDigital

Just ordered some "Top Secret" goodies from Reef Supplies.. Hope to see the order next week.

*Thanks for the package Canada Post*

Originally Posted by michika

If only they knew!

The Sailfin and Orange Shoulder come to mind.. Currently the Foxface dwarfs both of them... We all know that will change.





Video!
http://s1258.photobucket.com/user/Da...063ed.mp4.html

[JDigital]

Couple photos for you guys.

Still not that great even though I was using an actual camera.












Go ahead... ask me why there is a MOUNTAIN of sand on the left side.. lol

[michika]

Originally Posted by JDigital

I thought kien had a monopoly on Popcorn.

The empire is expanding!

Originally Posted by JDigital

Go ahead... ask me why there is a MOUNTAIN of sand on the left side.. lol

Why has Mt. Sand appeared in your tank?

Nice! Thank you for the photos!

[JDigital]

Originally Posted by michika

The empire is expanding!



Why has Mt. Sand appeared in your tank?

Nice! Thank you for the photos!

I have a Mated pair of Diamond Gobies... and they have setup shop under the rock that is under that pile of sand. I'm not 100% sure on the spawning habits of Diamond Gobies, but the few vids I have found on youtube would suggest this is what they are doing. The Male builds a mountain while the female stay in the burrow.

While very cool that they are spawning.... aesthetically, it drives me up the freaking wall! I typically end up bulldozing it and putting the sand back where it belongs.

Even as I sit here at my desk, I can see the male working away on that mountain, mouthful by mouthful....

[michika]

Originally Posted by JDigital

Even as I sit here at my desk, I can see the male working away on that mountain, mouthful by mouthful....

Nice!!

He is totally taunting you.

[kien]

Couldn't help but notice Mt. Sand as well. Apparently it's a conversation piece!

[JDigital]

That face is how it started out when I received my goodies yesterday..





I got around to getting the basics of the install done last night at the office, was there till 10pm on a Friday.. I like to think I'm pretty tech savvy so I was hoping I could set the rest of it up today. The tricky part was going to be setting up the network connectivity as this is a office network and I believe we have DHCP running so that would be a challenge to work around without making any changes to our system.

This is sorta how I felt after 6 hours at the office today.

Well I put the new bulbs in last night, but didn't get a chance to see them as my lights were off for the night.

Gotta say.. I'm kinda disappointed in the color. I was expecting the 15K to be a bit more blue that what they really are.. Wasn't expecting 20K by any means (nor could I find 20K Moguls in Canada) but these are a lot more white than I was hoping for. Very bright though.

I got moving along with the controller today as well but am also a bit frustrated with it for a few reasons.

1. Being that I am connecting this to our company Network which is setup with DHCP. This is giving me all sorts of headaches trying to even FIND the Apex on the network let alone using the iphone app. Needless to say I gave up on it after about 1.5hrs of playing around. I will have to get our IT guys to give me some direction on this next week.

2. I'm not finding the programming as user friendly as I was hoping it would be. Perhaps it is better to do via the web browser.

3. I'm actually more worried about my temperature now that I have a much more accurate reading. It's getting upwards of 81.2F (when I left the office today.. and likely drops 77 in the evenings. I contribute this ALL to the MH lights. I never expected to have temp swings that large with over 200G in water volume in an Air Cond. building. I think right now my only option it to pick up a couple cheapo fans to mount next to the lights to blow the hot air away from the tank.

On the plus side I am happy I DO have a good idea of what my temps are and I can now shut off certain things (like my skimmer) when temps get high. It's nice to see what my pH is on a regular basis too.

Hopefully I can fix a few of these things that are bugging me and stabilize the daily temp swing.