Canada Corals warehouse build thread

[kien]

Originally Posted by xenon

WOW! Way to harness the power of the sun there! :-D Glad to hear the corals are responding favourably. Makes me want to try some radiums :-)

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by kien

Makes me want to try some radiums :-)

Everyone is doing it!!

[xenon]

Originally Posted by kien

WOW! Way to harness the power of the sun there! :-D Glad to hear the corals are responding favourably. Makes me want to try some radiums :-)

400w 20K Radiums seem to be the gold standard for SPS coloration but it has lots of disadvantages compared to LED.

The heat produced from both the light and ballast is incredible. We are running a 1/3hp chiller but its not enough. More than twice the cost for power. The bulbs fire pretty white with electronic ballasts that are available on the market so they do still need actinic supplementation to make them look right. Evaporation has also increased.

I am patiently waiting for LED technology to catch up so that I can take these suckers down but something tells me that's not gonna happen for a very long time.

[kien]

Yup, I am all too familiar with the disadvantages of halides. Luckily I live in winter so it's not as bad for me. When we do have summer heat waves I use central AC to cool down the house and the tank.

[Jordon]

Any ETA when you guys are planning to have fish for sale?

[xenon]

Originally Posted by JDH

Any ETA when you guys are planning to have fish for sale?

Anytime we give a date range, we never deliver so at this point I just stopped saying when we will have fish.

We've never done fish yet and have so much to learn. We want to do everything correctly so our first few shipments will be small.

We want to ease into it nice and easy.

[Jordon]

Fair enough. Exited for you guys though

Hopefully you can have some luck with some hard-to-find fish in the future.

[Bugger]

This video is for you Xenon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfXuAQOC3R4