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sorry i dont know what happened to the pictures on page 11 of the full tank shots and lighting. but i got it fixed
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i finally shut down my 55 gallon and transfered the fish and corals over. i added a couple pieces of rock to finish the center of the tank. here is a couple pictures of the new rocks from the 55. the corals are still in shock but slowly opening. i finally got a picture of my mystery and whipfin wrasse.
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great job colin ,that monti is amazing
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i finished installing my lighting tonight. i have 2 HO T5 54w actinic with hagen GLO electronic ballast. i am only going to use them for dawn and dusk because the aquaconnect bulbs already produce enough blue light. also i installed the LED lighting from IKEA that someone on canreef posted about (sorry i dont remember their name) but they are 4 strips of led lights for my lunar lighting. no pics of the actinics on and lunar lights yet but tonight i'll try and take some. i took some pictures of the inside of the canopy with all the lights installed. i've been told that the GLO ballast is dimmable so when i figure out how to wire to my profilux i'll have dimmable T5's which will rock. it is the one reason i went with this ballast.
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n...f/100_1045.jpg http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n...f/100_1044.jpg i still cant figure out how to get my camera to adjust the color properly so it doesnt look so blue but you get the idea. the only lights on in these pictures is the halides. the small strips across the top between the pendants are the LED strips. |
i had to post this. my son is as hooked as i am on this hobby. he is almost 3 and he knows all the names of the fish, and almost the names of the corals now. my daughter is his 7 months and is amazed at it as well. sorry, just a little daddys pride and bragging tonight.
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Lookin' good!!
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here are the pictures of just actinics and then the LED's. the full tank shot of LED's seems really dark but in person it is just bright enough to see everything and produce almost a glow. i'm totally happy i went these. thanks to whoever it was that posted on canreef about the lighting from IKEA
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n...f/100_1052.jpg there is actually 4 strips of these but you cant see the one above the camera http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n...f/100_1053.jpg http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n...f/100_1054.jpg |
i picked up a really nice 4" copperband butterfly. it eats frozen food like crazy. he is nice and thick too. an hour later he is at home in the tank like he had been there a year. i also got a 3 fan assembly for the profilux with the prop control for it. i have not installed the control yet because i need to get a splitter for the 1 - 10 outlets but the fan is running and is dead silent. with the halides on for 7 1/2 hours the tank temp is heating 84.5 to 85 degrees which is not good. i'm hoping with the fan it will keep it down. i have my heaters adjust to 80 degrees so that at night there is not a huge temp fluctuation. but the tank usually stables at 81 with no lights on. i wanted to go with the 5 blade fan but the sump will only accomodate the 3 fan mounting. i'm debating whether i should install some fans on the canopy to pull some heat out of blow cooler air into the canopy. some input here would be nice. i'll post some pictures tomorrow of the new stuff
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need more shots of the mystery wrasse.. :mrgreen:
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i totally agree muck, but holy cow trying to get him to stay still for the photo. thank god for digital cameras because i probably would have gone through a few rolls on him alone with 35mm. the mystery wrasse is amazing. the coloring of him is nuts. the whipfin wrasse is beautiful as well but again good luck getting pictures.
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I hear ya. :lol:
Also just wanted to say that I really like the way you have setup your rockwork. Your tank is coming along very nicely Colin!! uh oh... Im starting to hear the call of "must have another tank" syndrome.. :eek: Ryan |
i got some pictures of yesterdays new addition and i had to come home with another one today. an awesome powder blue tang approx 6" and 2 acro small colonies. one of them is really hard to take a pic of and get the right color but i think it may be a tricolor eventually. the base is pinkish purple the tips tint of green with pink polyps. it also as a commensal crab which is really cool. i always hoped to get a piece with a crab. the other colony is green, again it looks ok in pic but much brighter in person. i spent about an hour in front of the tank today getting some pictures of the 'family'. especially the mystery wrasse (for muck) and tried to get the tang group together but the bloody tomini is on speed or something. he hauls around the tank during the day. anyhow i'll let the pictures tell the story. some maybe be bland to you guys but i had to take 'em.
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Looking good Colin - lovely PBT. Any aggression from the Naso? Is the flame angel giving you any trouble with your coral?
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thanks ruth. the powder blue and naso get along really well. there was no aggression at all from either. the naso was a little bothered when the powder blue was checking out the sleeping spot of the naso but no battle just a push and that was it. i was worried about the flame at first, it went after my monti, but after watching for a week i think he is only eating the filamentous algae on it and not the polyps thank god. the monti hasnt retracted polyps at all. in my last tank the flame ate a brain and xenia but that was it.
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Very nice.. your fish look great.
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Thanks for the pics Colin.
I think I may just have to get a mystery wrasse myself now. :surprise: |
they are unreal muck, they are way more colorful in person and the personality of them is hilarious
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Looking good colin
Is that a flasher wrasse in there (not the 5 bar ,the other one in the last page). I was told you have to have a couple of females with them or they eventually loose their coloration. Is that 5 bar Wrasse really agressive? Jason |
no i dont have a 5 bar, i have a mystery wrasse which was in the last couple pics and a whipfin wrasse, i dont think i've posted pics of him yet, i should. and a cleaner wrasse
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Colin mystery & 5 bar are the same ones ,hust another name.
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sorry about that jason, i thought they were 2 different fish. then yes it is a 5 bar.:redface: no there is not aggression from him. he was a little weary of the whipfin when i put him in but that only lasted the first day. i will have to research more on the female situation that you were talking about. i've never heard that before. i hope he doesnt lose the color
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i installed my calcium reactor today, i've had it for about 3 months but never hooked it up. i believe it is a marinetech dual chamber (jason correct me if i'm wrong), i'm using a eheim 1262 pump for supply. i started with a 1 drop effluent to 4 bubble co2 per min. this is the first reactor i've hooked up so if you think this rate is no good please let me know. i'm kind of teaching myself how to do this. i finally got a picture of the profilux and how i mounted it. please dont look at the wiring in behind, i had started to clean it up but now that they are replacing the profilux powerbars i'm going to wait until i get them. checked my CA today 425 alk 10kh and mg 1430. about 5 days ago i check my calcium it was 450 and i'm amazed at with little amount of sps i have how quickly the calcium is being used.
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here is the 3 fan assembly i bought. this little unit is amazing. at night my tank gets down to about 80 degrees give or take a little and during the day it was hitting 85.1 so i went and go one of these. i'm waiting to get the 'y' adapter to hook the controller to the profilux but for now i turn it on with the lighting. the tank temp now only hits about 83.8. i'm a little worried though because my photoperiod so far is only 7.5 hours and i'm hoping that when i increase it the temp will not as well. i cannot fit the large fan assembly in my sump area. if it does get worse i'll have to install something on the canopy
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Colin
Looks great ,as for the CA reactor ,you can tighten those screws with a pair of pliers if need be ,or you can get the other screws from Mike that are same size but flathead so you can use a screw driver to tighten them. I Would put some silicone gel on the pump's O ring ,or simply silicone it to the casing ,you will never have to open that the pump comes off with the unions ,if you needed to clean it ,& there is 1 year warranty on the pump for replacement (FYI). The top sponge you have there ,is actually a replacement pad or if you using really small media ,you won't need to use it with large media. I like the way you hooked up the profilux. The fans come in a 4 fan & 5 fan version as well. I do recomend a chiller ,specially for summer time ,however the fans take alot of strain off the chiller & you be using alot less electricity using the fans rather than just the chiller alone. Great Job my friend ,keep the pictures comming. |
I just checked those fans are 12v DC & .15 A so very very little energy consumption.
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i looked at the 4 and 5 fan units but my restriction was length to mount to the sump. i've researching chillers but our house has central air conditioning and is actually cooler in the summer then in winter so i'm hoping that the chiller will not be needed.
there has not been any leaks aside from a very minor one which i learned something from. i need to figure out a way to get the water out of the reactor for changing media. the only way i could do it to fix the leak was disconnect at the supply pump and actually blow through it to force the water out to a point that i could take the top cap off. i feel kind of stupid now having that extra sponge in there but unless there is an easier way to drain the unit to get the caps off, the sponge will stay in there until i need new media. thanks for the input though jason. |
i love the look of the fans as well and they are frickin dead quiet. i'm thinking of using them to mount on my canopy to circulate the air in there and maybe that will help.
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For your Ca reactor, each unit and tank is different, but the indicator is measuring the effluent and tank and what rates keeps the levels.
I'm new to reactors but my tank (light load 145g) has been fairly steady the last month at Ca 350, Alk 8.6, with 60 drips, and 20 bubbles/min and no dosing. |
thanks mark. so in other words i'm just going to have to test every couple days and adjust as necessary?
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i mounted my external viewer for the profilux tonight. last update for awhile.
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Colin
Have you seen the trim that Marc has around his view module ,looks awesome. I think be pretty easy to do & will look great.Of course we be stealling Marc's Idea but It wouldn't be the first time @ least not for me:biggrin: :biggrin: . |
marc's trim looks awesome but i'm not good at wood working like him. i was trying to think of something cool to case this viewer in but no ideas so far. i guess the only i could do is copy marcs idea. wouldnt be the first for me either. he is 'guru' when it comes to this stuff
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There are many obtions ,plastic ,or wood
check home depot ,they have tons of differnt obtions for this |
Good Stuff! :) I love the way you mount your prolifux in your sump! Love the fans you bought for your sump, i will considered the 5 fans version for my tank so i am very happy to know that those fans are quiet! Have you ever seen and heard an Icecap fan? How does it compare?
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i have seen the icecap fans, never hear them personally but heard they are quiet as well. i went with this setup initially because it can be controlled by the profilux but after seeing it in use i highly recommend it for efficiency and noise
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these are my first ever top down pictures. they are a little underexposed because i'm getting used to my camera. in addition i just found my whipfin wrasse that i lost, he is in my overflow. dont have a clue how to catch him. excuse the algae as well, then tank is still maturing.
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got some nice pieces there
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