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03-14-2008, 12:45 AM
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Also last night we started on installing our lighting canopy.
It will house 3 lumenarc mini reflectors with 400w galaxy ballasts. Here we are starting to cover it with aluminum flashing to seal it up.  Fitting the reflector  A quick tank shot  
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03-14-2008, 01:06 AM
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Looking great so far. Are you concerned that the lighting will generate too much heat with all that flashing trapping the hot air in?
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03-14-2008, 03:24 AM
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How much space are you left with on either side of the lumenarcs? I have the same width of tank 30", and can't decide on if to get the regular or mini reflectors. I do want to supplement with T5's on the side. What made you go with the mini's?
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03-14-2008, 03:34 AM
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Looks awesome. I want to the do the same sort of lighting canopy for my 3 LA mini's too. I'm just waiting for my buddy to get his welding table built
 Gools, one thought, take into account your Eurobracing too. I have a 30" tank too and decided to go with the mini's because I thought I could shoehorn 4xt5's over the tank. Then I realized that one set would be directly over the Eurobracing ... so I'm still deciding about 4 versus 2 myself.
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03-14-2008, 03:51 AM
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I took that into account, but was going to put the T5 slightly lower then the lumenarc, I thought it wouldn't block that much light. I thought the reg size would just be better for coverage, even with a slight blockage from the T5 reflectors. But still on the fence.
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03-14-2008, 02:34 PM
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I went with the mini reflectors simply because of space and their footprint covers all that I need. Not sure on the exact space, but there is enough room to fit at least 3 2' T 5's between each reflector and on the ends. Also there is enough room to run 6' of T 5's on the front.
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05-01-2008, 12:54 AM
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Hey sorry about the long delay in updates. It's hard to find lots of time to keep this updated when your also trying to set the tank up.
Lots of things have changed since the last update. I have added in the wavy seas with the tunzes and so far I am so impressed with the flow patterns that this combo creates. Also the lighting is all mounted just need to get some longer cords to put the middle T'5s in series with the others. Also the aquascaping is mainly done with only a few pieces of LR that i need to find for certain areas. We have in the last couple of days also added in the first of our livestock. We got a school of chromis and 3 firefish. We also added in a ricordea that was in our nano and we got a green monti frag. Sorry for the blurry pics, I am still trying to figure out the best way to take pics through the glass. Here's the ric.  Here's the monti  Firefish   Full Tank Shot with Just T5's  With Halides 
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05-09-2008, 01:06 AM
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Here's some pics of the frags I got from SuperFudge and Oceanic in the weekend.
These are when they were first put into the tank    Sunset Monti from Oceanic  Stumpy Robusta from Super Fudge  Super Fudge's BubbleGum Acro  Some kind of Table sort of like an Eflo  Mike Paletta's Teal Lavelli  Rainbow Milli from Dave at Wicked Frags  And Super Fudge's Popsicle Poci 
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